Hillary a fine one to talk

The Obama campaign is taking lots of gas for his elitist San Francisco fundraiser remarks about bitter small town white males. The criticism is well-deserved, as the mask is finally being rolled back to reveal the actual Barack Obama, as opposed to the liberal mass media creation.

The lead critic, with certainly no right to talk in her own right, is Hillary Clinton. The Wellesley and Yale Law School graduate, whose family has made $109 million as revealed in their tax returns since 2001, has no room to talk. Bill has his multi-million dollar mansion in Chappaqua, New York and Hillary has her multi-million-dollar mansion on embassy row in Washington D.C. Many would use say they are the elite of the elite.

This all brings to mind what this blog has written about several times in recent weeks: the 2008 election is going to be determined by the angry white males, and neither Obama or Hillary is doing a decent job of speaking to them or for them. Blue collar white males, both union and non-union, are big outdoorsmen, hunters and fishermen, gun owners. They ride Harleys, drink beer and smoke cigars. They are the significant voting bloc that is being left out in all the political calculations.

What probably is happening, is Hillary and Obama both are baring their natural antipathy to blue collar, white male values and setting them up to vote for John McCain in November. While hardly a man of the soil, McCain is a war hero, graduate of the public naval academy, with a much more conservative record on the issues most critical to the white male.

Not to be too unduly politically incorrect, but blue collar white males are not going to vote for a woman or black President. They might be shaken by the inclusion of a white male on the ticket, but probably not. The younger generation might not think the same way, but for 2008 anyway, the blue collar baby boomer white male will still carry huge clout.

Hillary and Barack tarring each other as elitists only drives home the point, for re-use in the fall campaign by John McCain.

Thank you!