1.0 link 128631 <![CDATA[This Country Needs An Intellectual]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sheila-suess-kennedy/this-country-needs-an-int_b_128631.html If you want to see a really good example of people talking past one another, you need go no further than the charges of "elitism" being leveled at Barack Obama by the McCain campaign.

To those making the accusation, Obama's elitism seems self-evident. To the rest of us, those same charges seem ridiculous. McCain is far richer than Obama, and has been a "celebrity" far longer. Unlike Obama, he was born into privilege. With the notable exception of his time as...

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