Obama: Elite means good

It has reached the point where the only sensible course of action is to bang one's head on a concrete slab.

Clinton and McCain are now lobbing the "elitist" label at Obama. Presumably this is meant to be derogatory, to drag Obama down and lessen his appeal by portraying him as being above the common man, an individual estranged from normalcy and the herd. Meanwhile, Clinton inhabits bars and relates stories of when she was taught to shoot while McCain wants to repeal the gas tax this summer. So Clinton has become an alcoholic gun nut. McCain is an irresponsible panderer. Obama is an elitist, educated entity estranged from the normalcy of day to day life. And Obama's image is the one in trouble.

Think about that. Then find a good spot at the head banging wall. Elitist is a pejorative; smart is a pejorative. Obama's campaign is damaged by other candidates saying that he is better than they are, that he is an elite entity while they are average, familiar, mundane.

What, I ask, the fuck?

I understand that it is rhetorically mundane to use the notion of a thing as "backwards", that this expression is trite and overused. Unfortunately this whole mess really is fucking backwards.

How unaware do voters have to be to see "elitist" as problematic, as undesirable, as bad? When did smart become a pejorative? What the fuck is wrong with these people?

My guess? It's this shit right here as provided by McCain:
"Hope in America is not based on delusion, but in the faith that everything is possible in America."

The problem, dipshit, is that it IS delusion.

The intricately constructed trap of American society encapsulated in the American Dream is designed to lure peasants (That's right. You're fucking peasants.) into the notion that they are the victors, that theirs is the goal to which one ought strive. Buy a house. Make babies. Vote for a dipshit. Dwell in the muck and strive for the mundane as you pray to invisible men in the sky so that they might bless you with piddly levels of wealth with which you may buy that which you do not need.

We're in this backwards-ass society in which elite is bad, in which middling is the height to which we strive. Citizens have taken to heart the story of Icarus: do not fly too high; do not achieve too much; do not stray from the herd. Strive to be smart but not too smart; good but not elite. They have latched onto the notion that the people for whom they vote need to be just like them. They do not want educated, responsible, qualified individuals running the country. They want plain spoken good old boys with whom they can share a beer and who will never use words they do not understand.

And they are wrong.

Elite is not bad, you fuckers. Elite is good. We need a president whose abilities and dreams and ambitions are above those of the common man. We are not electing a drinking buddy, "one of the guys", another George W. Bush with well-intentioned idiocy enmeshed in 4th grade level plain-spoken ignorance. We need an Obama, an elitist, an individual who is above the mundane. We need to elect a president who is better than we are and not another worthless fucking clod.