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DownNotOut Donating Member (109 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-04 03:32 PM
Response to Reply #65
67. Not necessarily directed at you but...
keep in mind that the term 'elitist' does not always refer to someones knowledge or education level. In politics, I mostly infer it to be a reference to wealth.



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  -The left are condescending cally  Dec-27-04 12:43 PM   #0 
  - We didn't lose. We failed theft prevention.  aquart   Dec-27-04 12:44 PM   #1 
  - It was close enough to steal  cally   Dec-27-04 12:46 PM   #3 
  - And in that, we lost  Warpy   Dec-27-04 12:57 PM   #10 
  - That is my thesis as well  satori   Dec-27-04 03:24 PM   #63 
  - I didn't know that  forgethell   Dec-27-04 01:15 PM   #25 
  - So who do you want to nominate in 2008?  wuushew   Dec-27-04 12:46 PM   #2 
  - I don't know...Not a Gore or a Kerry  cally   Dec-27-04 12:49 PM   #5 
  - i nominate gomer pyle...  ret5hd   Dec-27-04 12:47 PM   #4 
  - The current President can not serve more than two terms  wuushew   Dec-27-04 12:49 PM   #7 
     - So just because the Constitution says it?  aundria75   Dec-27-04 01:34 PM   #39 
  - Maher on Southerners:  BlueEyedSon   Dec-27-04 12:49 PM   #6 
  - Amen.  TahitiNut   Dec-27-04 12:59 PM   #11 
  - excellent point  Mike Niendorff   Dec-27-04 03:52 PM   #75 
  - same goes for the Southern attitude to women  FizzFuzz   Dec-27-04 04:46 PM   #100 
  - I agree it is a shame.  wildeyed   Dec-27-04 01:06 PM   #19 
  - Thank god somebody (Maher) is addressing the actual problem...  ChairOne   Dec-27-04 01:26 PM   #35 
  - You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink  Geek_Girl   Dec-27-04 03:06 PM   #55 
  - My suggestion's utility doesn't require *literally every* horse to drink..  ChairOne   Dec-27-04 03:26 PM   #64 
  - You are right about an education  Wisc Badger   Dec-27-04 03:54 PM   #76 
     - lol - sounds like at least one of Churchill's famous quotes applies...  ChairOne   Dec-27-04 04:37 PM   #98 
  - Edwards used the argument to get on the ticket.  Done   Dec-27-04 01:49 PM   #43 
  - Let's all us Democrats embrace creationism so we can win, ok?  BlueEyedSon   Dec-27-04 01:51 PM   #44 
  - Democrats need to get their message out.  Done   Dec-27-04 01:56 PM   #47 
  - But Southerners didn't like Edwards all that much  Clark2008   Dec-27-04 04:01 PM   #82 
  - wow. that was outstanding!!!  jonnyblitz   Dec-27-04 01:59 PM   #48 
  - Maher is frequently great (not always though).  BlueEyedSon   Dec-27-04 05:58 PM   #105 
  - Great post!  Kathy in Cambridge   Dec-27-04 03:20 PM   #61 
  - Amen to that!  TankLV   Dec-27-04 09:18 PM   #110 
  - We lose because we traffic in ideas?  Old Crusoe   Dec-27-04 12:51 PM   #8 
  - I agree...but how do we do it?  cally   Dec-27-04 12:57 PM   #9 
  - We could nominate Bill Moyers.  Old Crusoe   Dec-27-04 01:02 PM   #16 
  - Not a chance!!!!  Wisc Badger   Dec-27-04 04:02 PM   #83 
     - Okey dokey -- you don't care for her.  Old Crusoe   Dec-27-04 04:19 PM   #91 
        - In that case I am with you  Wisc Badger   Dec-27-04 04:22 PM   #92 
           - Well, ok with Donna.  Old Crusoe   Dec-27-04 04:30 PM   #95 
  - Perhaps more cartoons. I watched a cartoon on CNN about how  Career Prole   Dec-27-04 01:18 PM   #27 
  - That's not a Southern problem  Clark2008   Dec-27-04 04:03 PM   #85 
  - I live in a fairly liberal  forgethell   Dec-27-04 01:21 PM   #33 
  - Gee,  Poppyseedman   Dec-27-04 01:10 PM   #21 
  - Whoops. You made a mistake.  Old Crusoe   Dec-27-04 01:23 PM   #34 
  - You come across as condescending to me  Wisc Badger   Dec-27-04 04:00 PM   #81 
     - Let's say I snapped right back with:  Old Crusoe   Dec-27-04 04:27 PM   #93 
  - I have to respectfully disagree.  pmbryant   Dec-27-04 01:00 PM   #12 
  - good point  sui generis   Dec-27-04 01:10 PM   #22 
  - you're just a flip-flopper  bobbobbins   Dec-27-04 01:00 PM   #13 
  - Oscar Wilde said that "the arts should never aspire to become  stopbush   Dec-27-04 01:01 PM   #14 
  - You have some good insights.  wildeyed   Dec-27-04 01:01 PM   #15 
  - I think that you are right, Wildeyed!  Maat   Dec-27-04 01:14 PM   #24 
  - "she votes for some Christian ideal life in her head,  wildeyed   Dec-27-04 01:46 PM   #42 
  - Your are right on.  Poppyseedman   Dec-27-04 01:18 PM   #29 
  - Especially the young women?  lastliberalintexas   Dec-27-04 04:56 PM   #104 
  - That would be it!  Clark2008   Dec-27-04 04:08 PM   #89 
  - It's not condescending  sui generis   Dec-27-04 01:05 PM   #17 
  - The people you are describing have no problem being condescending...  JHB   Dec-27-04 01:06 PM   #18 
  - I like your premise  comsymp   Dec-27-04 01:07 PM   #20 
  - ugh. I hate arguments like these...  unpossibles   Dec-27-04 01:11 PM   #23 
  - I agree with you, too, Unpossibles.  Maat   Dec-27-04 01:19 PM   #30 
  - It's the new normal  sandnsea   Dec-27-04 01:16 PM   #26 
  - I dunno.  MsTryska   Dec-27-04 01:18 PM   #28 
  - funny how my illiterate grandparents here in the North didn't mind  bleedingheart   Dec-27-04 01:20 PM   #31 
  - of course we sound  gizmo1979   Dec-27-04 01:20 PM   #32 
  - A comment like that is what made me post this  cally   Dec-27-04 04:55 PM   #103 
     - What's the difference?  gizmo1979   Dec-27-04 06:13 PM   #107 
  - Accually, the right are condescending  MARALE   Dec-27-04 01:28 PM   #36 
  - So fight fire with fire ?  Boosterman   Dec-27-04 01:51 PM   #45 
     - no...but they do win  sonicx   Dec-27-04 02:59 PM   #52 
     - I disagree  Boosterman   Dec-27-04 03:08 PM   #59 
     - In a way, yes  MARALE   Dec-27-04 03:39 PM   #71 
  - no diversity without equality  Nestor-Machno   Dec-27-04 01:32 PM   #37 
  - I won't apologize for intelligence & I seek intelligence in candidates.  ModRepubinPA   Dec-27-04 01:33 PM   #38 
  - i think the right is condescending  lionesspriyanka   Dec-27-04 01:41 PM   #40 
  - Hear, hear.  Midlodemocrat   Dec-27-04 03:01 PM   #53 
  - shouldn't that be "the left IS condescending"?  Scout   Dec-27-04 01:42 PM   #41 
  - No, you ain't.  Old Crusoe   Dec-27-04 01:52 PM   #46 
  - Condescending is....  Nobody   Dec-27-04 02:29 PM   #49 
  - You have things alittle mixed up. First you say, "I think we lose because  sonicx   Dec-27-04 02:50 PM   #50 
  - What was Lincoln thinkin'?  msmcghee   Dec-27-04 02:50 PM   #51 
  - If people don't like new ideas  rman   Dec-27-04 03:03 PM   #54 
  - So when you're done being condescending to us all here at DU  Cronus Protagonist   Dec-27-04 03:07 PM   #56 
  - How was I condescending to DU?  cally   Dec-27-04 03:13 PM   #60 
     - Well, you said it yourself in your post  Cronus Protagonist   Dec-27-04 03:23 PM   #62 
        - You read what you want in my post  cally   Dec-27-04 03:34 PM   #69 
           - I was not offended. Not at all.  Cronus Protagonist   Dec-27-04 03:48 PM   #73 
  - Soooooo close  That Name Taken   Dec-27-04 03:07 PM   #57 
  - I understand what you are saying  DownNotOut   Dec-27-04 03:08 PM   #58 
  - But isn't the right condescending in their own way  LittleClarkie   Dec-27-04 03:27 PM   #65 
  - Not necessarily directed at you but...  DownNotOut   Dec-27-04 03:32 PM   #67 
  - The RNC is more successful with the sound bite than us.  DainBramaged   Dec-27-04 03:29 PM   #66 
  - Yes!  fishingriver   Dec-27-04 06:23 PM   #108 
  - That may be the reason why some rwers are rwers.  Nadienne   Dec-27-04 03:34 PM   #68 
  - Fascists always demonize the intelligencia...the educated...  annabanana   Dec-27-04 03:38 PM   #70 
     - Bingo, annabanana.  Old Crusoe   Dec-27-04 04:00 PM   #80 
     - I pretty much agree.  Nadienne   Dec-27-04 04:02 PM   # 
  - People that refuse to learn or aren't interested in knowledge  LibertyorDeath   Dec-27-04 03:43 PM   #72 
  - we have a cult of willful ignorance in America, and always have.  ulysses   Dec-27-04 03:50 PM   #74 
  - Willful Ignorance  lakelly   Dec-27-04 03:56 PM   #78 
  - borrow away.  ulysses   Dec-27-04 04:05 PM   #86 
     - Anti Intellectual Americans  lakelly   Dec-27-04 04:27 PM   #94 
  - i mean really  noiretblu   Dec-27-04 04:07 PM   #88 
  - LOL - I'll bet it was.  ulysses   Dec-27-04 04:38 PM   #99 
  - I agree...I want an intellectual and curious candidate  cally   Dec-27-04 04:49 PM   #101 
  - bush is a graduate of yale and harvard  noiretblu   Dec-27-04 03:55 PM   #77 
  - and yet...uneducated, and dull..........................n/t  annabanana   Dec-27-04 03:58 PM   #79 
  - yes :), but he has the credentials  noiretblu   Dec-27-04 04:02 PM   #84 
  - that's why he had to move to Texas.  ulysses   Dec-27-04 04:06 PM   #87 
     - he's still all hat and no cattle  noiretblu   Dec-27-04 04:11 PM   #90 
        - I just had a brain dump on this idea.  ulysses   Dec-27-04 04:35 PM   # 
  - The Left barely exists.  durutti   Dec-27-04 04:35 PM   #96 
  - we won where all the people are  bpilgrim   Dec-27-04 04:37 PM   #97 
  - "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"  lastliberalintexas   Dec-27-04 04:51 PM   #102 
  - Not exactally true....  lgardengate   Dec-27-04 06:07 PM   #106 
  - Clinton  cmkramer   Dec-27-04 08:50 PM   #109 
  - I think it was because  Nadienne   Dec-27-04 09:30 PM   #112 
  - unless you are a minority  JI7   Dec-27-04 09:29 PM   #111 
 

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