1.0 link 100678 <![CDATA[What's an Elitist Anyway?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-alderman/whats-an-elitist-anyway_b_100678.html It's very confusing trying to figure out what an elitist is these days. Who qualifies to be an elitist? Are there standards? Certain physical characteristics? Is it catching? If you somehow become one, are you better off? Worse off? Very confusing.

Like everything else, the meaning depends on who uses it. If you're an elitist-using politician, you're accusing someone of being an intellectual, an out-of-touch wine-drinking effete snob. Not good if you're the elitist-receiving politician. Obama's hearing it. John Kerry got...

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