Posted on 12/18/2004 8:26:21 AM PST by johnny7
The other day columnist George F. Will took a swipe at what he called "Kuttnerism" -- the sin of liberal condescension toward middle Americans ["Redefining Liberalism," op-ed, Dec. 12].
I have long observed that when Democrats and liberals honor the pocketbook struggles of regular people, social tolerance is more easily advanced. For instance, Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy championed workaday Americans -- and were able to expand minority rights at a time when most whites needed some prodding. In that spirit, I wrote in the December American Prospect magazine: "Bill Clinton won election by declaring, as a matter of values, that people who work hard and play by the rules should not be poor. Middle America forgave him for treating gays as people."
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“Surely the erudite Will must know that throughout our history, large numbers of Americans have been prejudiced against blacks, Jews, Catholics, Indians, Hispanics and gays, as well as against liberated women.“
No... you don't say!
The 'erudite' Will, has more brains in his shopping lists than Kuttner ever has in his columns!
Not looking down, he wanted to enlighten us commoners to strive to his level.
LOL! Nope, no looking down going on there.
"Bill Clinton won election by declaring, as a matter of values, that people who work hard and play by the rules should not be poor. Middle America forgave him for treating gays as people."
Retard...
I had to stop reading at the "Clinton won election by declaring...". If this writer is too stupid to know that Clinton won election because of Ross Perot and only because of Ross Perot, then I'll waste none of my time.
Liberals MUST look down on the middle class. It's part and parcel of Marxist theory: the middle class is the bourgeoisie, the static, smug burghers whose sheer numbers and inertia resist the cultural evolution of the proletariat. The middle class, not the capitalist, is the enemy.
These groups are just as "prejudice".....sometimes worse than that....
Assuming that we were too stupid to know what he was actually saying is in itself looking down on us.
Ain't it the blessed truth. Kuttner's one of the 'easiest' Marxists to pick out of a line-up. Anthony Lewis was another.
Someone in "middle America" said that a lot of people voted for Perot there, and I said: "they gave Clinton the presidency". To say it was a protest vote is stupid. They gained 8 years of you know what.
Perots one and only mission in life in '92 and again in '96 was to see that Clinton was elected. His folksy bullsh*t and ranting was designed to appeal to weak-minded conservatives and pull votes away from the Republican candidate. I tried to tell people at the time, but there were so many fooled.
I rely on the fact that Perot came out and endorsed Ann Richards over George W. Bush in the Texas govenors race as proof of Perot's real intentions. Only a hardcore Texas democrat could have endorsed ol' crepeface in that race.
The day after the election he walked past my office in a hurried gait... no doubt, afraid of my 'I told you so'.
As he got down the hall, I yelled out... ”Mike!” He slowly came back expecting an earful.
With a smile I said “'Mornin!”
I have no patience with these self-delusional Washingtonians. Both New York and Washington remain de facto segregated cities. What difference does it make what they say or write, if they go home to lilly white suburbs, driving by the black neighborhoods with high crime, 50% unemployment, and hopeless schools. How much credit do they deserve for abandoning that constituency still in a mess and moving on to champion gays? Must be part of their health care takeover campaign. (The more AIDS sufferers we have the more the cost of health care escalates).
False dichotomy. In a free society, people have a right to have differing views on the morality of homosexual activity. Believing that homosexual activity is sinful or immoral does not question the "humanity" of those with this sexual proclivity. Thus Kuttner does unfairly demonize anyone who disagrees with him and the extreme gay activist agenda that seeks to impose its extremist gay activist ideology on the rest of society.
No, Bill Clinton won because of Ross Perot. That fact seems to have been conveniently dropped down the memory hole in the name of Billy Jeff's "legacy".
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