[Cerek]

Originally posted by Yorick: Cerek, there are over 8 million night time residents of New York. Manhattan doesn't even have half of that. Brooklyn has 4 million. The largest borough, and is far from being filled with "eleitist" Manhattanites. The overwhelming majority are working class. Jersey City, Queens, Bronx, Staten. All this adds up to more people than exist in the Upper West, Upper East or Greenwhich Village. As for Cheney and Bush... where did they go to college? Bush went to YALE. On daddy's money. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/...irm.action.tm/ Cheney has a masters in Arts from University of Wyoming. http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/vpbio.html Where did Moore go to college? Who had the best education money could buy? How does the son of a CIA chief turned President somehow give the impression that he's "Mr.Everyman". It's a hoodwink Cerek. You have been hoodwinked. It's an aristocracy when the leadership gets passed from father to son, and a brother is a governor.

I will try once again to explain that I am talking about ATTITUDE when I use the term "elitist", NOT WEALTH!!! And the article from the NY Times interviewed everyday working New Yorkers...and every one quoted said FLAT OUT that THEY were smarter, wiser, more "street savvy" and "globally aware" than Red America. In other words, THEY WERE BETTER THAN RED AMERICA. That is an "elitist attitude" and it doesn't have Happy Jack **** to do with how much money any of them make or have. It is their attitude that I am talking about.

And the real irony is that you are perpetuating that very same attitude and don't even realize it. You have implied that I didn't realize Bush and Cheney were multi-millionaires and have told me point blank that I was "hoodwinked" twice now. In other words, I wasn't "smart enough" to see through George Bush's act.

Well guess what, Yorick, I DID see through George Bush and his act. The only difference is that I also saw through Kerry and HIS act too (BTW, Kerry graduated from Yale just like George Bush and even belonged to the same "elite" club as Georgie Boy - but of course, you knew that already). And at the end of the day, I felt more comfortable that George Bush represented MY interests and MY VALUES better than John Kerry did.

And - amazing as it may sound - I actually managed to figure that out all by my little old self. If you were around BEFORE the election, then you surely saw some of my posts where I said I was very undecided as to who I was going to support, because I had pros and cons regarding both candidates. But when everything was said and done, I decided that Bush represented what I wanted in a President BETTER than Kerry did. The fact that you disagree with that choice is fine....but the fact that your disagreement makes you think I was "hoodwinked" is nothing short of arrogant, because it means you think that I just wasn't as "smart" or "savvy" as you were about George Bush - and that is the type of "elitist attitude" that I was talking about with Moore and his Blue America buddies.