10-22-2008, 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick
Well, the bottom line for me is not that it's awful to be rich or to buy fine things, but that it's awful to pretend - particularly on a political front - that you're "just like everyone else," and call out others for being "elitist" when you are elitist yourself.
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Originally Posted by JWBear
I have no problems with politicians dressing well. In fact, I expect it. I do, however, have a problem with putting on a painful show of "folksyness" and accusing your opponant of "elitism", and then going on a $150,000 clothes shopping binge with somebody elses money.
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Exactly. Portray yourself as the common person, yet go spend significantly more than that "everyman's" salary on a wardrobe? Not quite. I don't so much mind she spent somebody else's money (that's a perk of being the candidate) but how much she spent????? Wow.
Same argument I have with McCain claiming maverick status, yet voting with his party 90% of the time. I don't have an issue with Obama voting with his party- he doesn't try to claim something else.
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