Posted on 04/15/2008 5:41:26 PM PDT by Earthdweller
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, accused of being elitist for remarks he made about small-town American voters, said on Tuesday the slap at his background is amusing and signals a nation in the midst of "political silly season."
The Democratic senator, campaigning in Pennsylvania, dismissed the charges of being elitist and out of touch by fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton and by Republican John McCain as unfounded, given his background.
"I am amused about this notion of elitist, given that when you're raised by a single mom, when you were on food stamps for a while when you were growing up, you went to school on scholarship," he told a town hall meeting of U.S. military veterans in western Pennsylvania.
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It’s not elitism, it’s the snobbery of soft bigotry.
It's totally outrageous that our media is allowing this to slide. The whole Dem party is a farce....they no more care about bigotry than a terrorist....they just want their power.
if his mother was married to an Indonesian man who was his step father then during his early youth his mother wasn’t a single parent
then his mother drops him off on the grandparents who raised him and put him through school until he was 18
he lived with his single mother in Hawaii for 4 years from age 2 to age 6
anyone know if they were living with her parents after Kunte Hussein Obama took off?
why would he have to live off of food stamps while her parents lived in Hawaii and had plenty of money?
out of the first 18 years of his life he only lived with his single mother 4 years
the other 14 years he wasn’t raised by a single mother
and the guy and all his spokespeople and defenders go around telling everyone he was raised by a single mother
what a load
His wife says how rotten America is and that those living on the lower East Side “like me and Barack” have nothing.
She made it from there to Harvard and Princeton and wealth.
So why can’t others do it? And why does she want to punish those who do?
It was a slam on the United States of You People.
That place the Left called “Jesusland” the day after the 2004 election.
The definitions make no reference to race. The entymology makes a reference to the word origin being racist but there were far earlier uses of other forms without racist connotations. No earlier “cited” use of “uppity” predates Uncle Remus, it doesn’t mean that it wasn’t used prior to that book.
From dictionary.com:
up·pi·ty
-adjective Informal.
1. affecting an attitude of inflated self-esteem; haughty; snobbish.
2. rebelliously self-assertive; not inclined to be tractable or deferential.
[Origin: 1875–80, Americanism; prob. up + -ity, extended form of -y1; cf. pernickety]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
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up·pi·ty
adj. Informal
Taking liberties or assuming airs beyond one’s station; presumptuous: “was getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down” (New York Times).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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uppity
1880, from up; originally used by blacks of other blacks felt to be too self-assertive (first recorded use is in “Uncle Remus”). The parallel British variant uppish (1678) originally meant “lavish;” the sense of “conceited, arrogant” being first recorded 1734.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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uppity
adjective
presumptuously arrogant; “had a witty but overweening manner”; “no idea how overweening he would be”- S.V.Benet; “getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down”- NY Times [syn: overweening]
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
“given that when you’re raised by a single mom”
There goes grandma under the bus again.
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