Were those actions the problem in themselves – okay. No. There is more. Last time I checked, we are Americans. This is not supposed to be seen as a land of dictators. Yet, Obama looks, publically speaking, like he’s going for such a postion.

This person, Obama, should be progressive. He should be adding to Clinton’s public persona, not stepping back about…100 years. For crying out loud, recently he had won some wonderful thing, I think the nomination numbers. He almost forgot to reach for his wife’s hand and hold it into the air. Like, ‘here we are guys! Oh yeah, Michelle, you too.’

Obama needs to go to some weekend event for elite men, find a guru and work, work, work to improve his attitudes.

The Latin phrase is in keeping with the passage’s tenor and adds zest to it. Replace it with “in person” and see how it reads.

As for those calling Kimball a hypocrite for failing to notice his own “elitism” (the bow-tie etc), Kimball does not think Obama is an elitist (properly understood), and, in fact, spends some time telling us so. Kimball probably does see himself as an elitist (properly understood), and I would tend to agree with him: is he better educated and a better writer than I and most people I know? Sure he is, and I’m glad he so readily shares his thoughts with us. I don’t detect much in the way of snobbishness, condescension or contempt in his words, which is to his credit. Kimball, in this article, is agreeing that small town Pensylvanians have a right to be bitter, that their anger is well-founded; he is criticizing Obama for his condescending insinuation that those small-towners need to be enlightened and they too will see that jobs leaving town and immigrants flooding the country are nothing to worry about.

I know small towns and people ARE bitter at the disregard by our politicians. Multimillonaires that have not shopped in a grocery store in a decade or filled their own tank of gas since the 20th century have no right to tell me that someone that understands my bitterness is being condescending.

Bill Clinton used it to rally the base. Karl Rove used it to divide the electorate and motivate his base. Obama is using a proven tool. We know McCain and Clinton will not act on their promises, so maybe..just maybe, Obama will.