Along with Al Gore, who was also labeled a "snob"...

[Labors of Hercules]

Barack Obama was BY FAR the least snobbish of any presidential candidate I've ever met...

After seeing my volunteer tag, Obama asked a news camera to move aside so that he could shake my hand and say "Thank You". The deliberate attention and warmth he shows to his staff and volunteers is palpable...

"The truest measure of a person is in the genuine effusiveness of their praise..." ~Charles Schwab

(Edited to add): So that is why THIS REALLY PISSES ME OFF:



Because it is complete BULLSHIT. :grr:

[book_worm]

1. It's true the Hill folks are tagging Obama with the same nonsense the media tagged on Al Gore

[blm]

2. Kerry always had a tender smile that shone through his eyes, too, when he looked at any of us

I think reporters know they are feeding the needs of their masters when they work to mislead voters about the Dem nominees.

[bitchkitty]

3. A tender smile? Come on! n/t

[blm]

5. Yes.

Why? You never bought that aloof line of shit, did you?

[bitchkitty]

10. No, not aloof, but you sound like

you're talking about a lover, not a candidate!

Sorry, not trying to trash you, it just kind of surprised me.

[blm]

16. Nope - I use tender when appropriate. I always noted Andy showed tenderness, too, and would

say so. No one thought it strange.

[demwing]

4. But Kerry was labled a snob

Don't you remember that story about Kerry trying to get into a club (i think) and telling the door guy - "Don't you know who I am?"

[blm]

7. Stories have been planted against Kerry since early70s. Like he slept inside while other antiwar

protestors slept outside - they figured that today's young folks wouldn't remember that back then when you organized events you needed to be at a LANDLINE phone as there were no cell phones then.

The spinners used the fact that he operated out of a friend's apartment there throughout the days and nights before the big event, to claim he refused to sleep on the steps with the other protestors and would only sleep in a bed.

That's the way they work - know your enemies - especially in the media.

[Labors of Hercules]

26. A professor of mine once said...

"If you want to know the truth, instead of listening only what the media tells you, it is far more beneficial to discover what they are deliberately leaving out and why."

[Lyric]

6. Ah yes, Al Gore.

The one that so many of the "progressives" pooh-pooh'ed as "the same as Bush" and thus stayed home or voted Nader in order to "send a message that this kind of candidate will not be tolerated."

Gee, where have I heard THAT meme lately?

:eyes:

[TahitiNut]

8. I'm far from being an Obama-nut ... but ...

... I have no doubt Obama is sincere. Frauds and fakes don't make the minor gaffes he's made. Bill Clinton was on of the most adept liars I've ever seen ... but even in lying, he betrayed a far greater sense of the truth (by parsing and tip-toeing on top of the "line") than anyone in the Cheney/Bush crowd, including Lieberman and Shillary. His wagging finger was a dead giveaway.

Obama's almost obsessive adherence to a set of personal principles is what his opponents have targeted, seeking passionately to push him over the line so they can gleefully claim he's as hypocritical as THEY are. We're so immersed in cynicism and disillusionment that we resist ANYONE not so damaged.

[BlooInBloo]

11. You're a nut. Long live nuts!

[TahitiNut]

18. I wallow in the metaphorical puppy pile of fruits, nuts, and flakes.

Pour on the "milk of human kindness" and I'm as happy as a Simon & Garfunkel Post Toastie.

:silly: :dunce:

[BlooInBloo]

19. Breakfast time! woot!

[graycem]

9. I agree.. even John Edwards

when he came to my town was more "snobbish" if we want to start measuring. He greeted people for maybe 5 minutes, and left the "dirty work" handshaking and autographs for Elizabeth to do. And I really like him a lot. I don't see how anybody says this about Obama either. I think they mistake confidence for arrogance which is a shame. He even lets his people gather books that folks bring with them to his town halls so that he can autograph them after he's done. That's committment and appreciation for support. This snob label IS bullshit. :toast:

[Neshanic]

12. No, Obama comes across as an epic snob. With his wife? OMG.

[Labors of Hercules]

21. Have you met him? or Michelle?

On what do you base that opinion?

[crankychatter]

13. Every Dem since Adlai Stevenson?

just sayin'

[DangerousRhythm]

14. Yep, that and "Elitist"...

Which seems to be a word some people have fully embraced after it was pounded away by the MSM and the Clinton campaign after the San Francisco thing. In this contest, there's no room for Hillary OR McCain to call anyone an elitist. Not at all. Yet I see it waved about here like a brand new smear word some have just learned so they try to get it in when at all possible. It's just tiresome.

Not to mention, Michelle Malkin is the one I've noticed using "Snob-ama" as a smear. How can people who claim to be Democrats actually use the word and feel good about themselves?

[Labors of Hercules]

22. "people who claim to be Democrats"...

I think "CLAIM" is the word.

[Forkboy]

15. I've been told the "snob" pic is flattering by a Hillary supporter.

:rofl:

[Vinca]

17. OP is exactly right. And it's doubly worse because Democrats

are the perpetrators of the label this time around. No wonder we end us with "just regular folk" like George W. Bush.

[NashVegas]

20. By The Same Fucking Press Corp That's Injuring Its Knees Fellating OBama

Do you think they've changed so much?

Wakey wakey!

[ShortnFiery]

23. Joe Scarborough, the illustrious "Morning Joe" pushes "Obama's a SNOB" LIE every damn morning

on his scum sucking, monkey vomit show. Between Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan, MSNBC has the white racist audience LOCKED-UP. :puke:

[DS1]

24. Bullshit is the only thing Clinton and her wolves have left

[Texas Hill Country]

25. have you met bill or hillary? i did, and they were wonderful

[Labors of Hercules]

27. Yes, actually I have.

And I have to say, I got the same impression from both of them... Quite polished, quick witted and utterly insincere.