Posted on 10/12/2010 1:52:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
No. And Canadian liberal Frum is irrelevant.
IQ is utterly meaningless. I knew one girl in high school academically quite bright got As in everything. She did however cling to every liberal cause the “cool” kids were following and take it to a frightening extreme did much the same thing with fads. She’s in college now according to her facebook working on a useless degree.
I’m sure she has a very high IQ score and she didn’t strike me as a bad person. However in terms of the real world she’s dumb as a sack of rocks. And in the end thats all that matters.
I think the elites are hated because they think they are better and that know better and, yet, when it comes time to perform in the real world...the elites usually fail miserably.
I read the title and don’t need to read the article.
The Tea Party hates the elites because the elites hate the tea party.
Once again, the Left falls back on its claim to be “the best and the brightest.” A claim that is utterly without merit but that even if true would accord them no innate superiority as leaders. Kennedy and his “brain trust” made a mess of things, and other nominally intelligent politicians have been dismal failures.
The term “elites” refers to a homogeneous political crowd whose two requisites to be in the group is left-wing politics and that they graduated from one of the so-called “elite” ivy-league schools or one of the large universities on the west coast.
To folks from the Midwest, the South, and all other points in between, we are treated as peasants and they look down upon as the “unwashed”. The main thing however, is that we are not part of their group, and so they bully us. It’s a form of class warfare.
The irony is that they are the least diversified group in the country, and the most bigoted as well.
Bear in mind for a minute, though, that Anne Applebaum (who does come from a privileged background, though not an extremely privileged one) did a lot to promote democratic anti-Communist movements in Eastern Europe twenty years ago.
Sure, she gets it wrong here, but she's not a horrible person.
Staved off that wave did they?
What do people expect from a guy who defends a gay pedo on his staff?
I personally hate the concept of elitism as counterintuitive to the American precept that “all men are created equal”. Elitism warps that dream.
Just like Barbara Boxer telling the military general that she had “earned the title of Senator”. We don’t bestow titles in this country.
The highest ranking in the entire world is that of “American Citizen”. It trumps every Emirate, Kingdom, or Dictatorship in the world.
That’s why Bammy should not bow to anyone. They all should bow to the “lowest” of us.
/end_soapbox
The Ubamas are meritocrats???
Oh, I don't know, Anne.
Maybe it has something to do with that whole "Flyover Country" thing.
And why did that grifter give up her law license? I can't ever find any reason for this...Anybody here know?
These two are the worst examples of affirmative action I've seen. What were his grades at Occidental? Crappy. Yet he gets to go to Columbia then on to Harvard? How does that work out? I had better grades that Me-chelle and didn't get a scholarship to Yale. And yet she bites the hand that feeds her with her whiney little paper. I can not wait until these two get the just rewards.
hahahaha.... With people like 57 states and jobs is a 3 letter word and food stamps are good for the economy and reid who thinks dead guys are the greatest living americans...
meritocracy??
hahahahahahaha
Obama has earned nothing based on merit, except our outrage.
People respect those who work hard, play by the rules, are successful, and don't look down on people and treat them like idiots. Elitist = ignorant arrogant fool with no practicality who thinks he knows what is best for you.
Obama has a Harvard Degree. So what. Jennifer Granholm and George W Bush have them too and f'ed things up. What has Obama done with it? He was a two bit attorney who became a lecturer and arguably a professor, while not knowing the constitution. He was also a state senator and was the affirmative action US Senator and got lucky because of Bush and McCain. Big deal. He hasn't owned a business. He never put up a shingle (Start law firm). He hasn't had to punch out a clock for thirty years while raising a family. Despite this, he sneers at ME? This dumbass couldn't fetch my coffee.
It is the liberals who feel that they are smarter and superior to “hicks from flyover country”. It’s so much manure.
They have “studies” to prove their superiority...studies done by their superior peers.
They are experts in the studies on their own superiority.
Drop em in Wisconsin in winter and they’d perish.
Yeah. Kind of like the word "is".
C'mon, Anne. You know what we're talking about. We don't mean "elite" in the sense that The Green Berets are elite.
We mean "elite" in the sense that they think they know how to run our lives better than we do simply by virtue of the fact that they attended a certain university or got a government job.
As far as Ubama's edumacation, how do we know how smart he is? Where's his college thesis? Where are his grades. Where are any of his writings? On what do you base your belief that he is so all-fired smart?
Your last line says it all. The self styled “elites” are hot-house orchids. Without the artificial atmosphere of academia and Washington they shrivel up and die!
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