The Elitist Celebrity Quiz

I am sick and tired of hearing people complain about Obama's "elitism", however you want to define the word. You are NOT going to go out for beers with the president. The president doesn't need to be someone you want to kick back and watch the Super Bowl with. The president of the United States DOES need to be intelligent, informed, and articulate, however. Would it really be so bad to have a president who isn't a complete embarrassment? It is that kind of reasoning, that fear of a president who might (you imagine) think he's better than you that has caused us to elect complete morons to lead our country. Wise up, folks. You're not voting for a new best friend, you're choosing a LEADER.

Watching McCain speak is like watching a stroke in slow-motion.

And of course the greatest irony of all: who was the beneficiary of affirmative action? The bottom-of-his-class legacy boy, that's who. Just what we need, another GOP C-Plus Augustus.

Corrected version:
"And since when is having legitimately *married into* money a crime in America?"

Fixed it for you. And by the way, have a look at *how* he married into it. Your boy gingriched his first wife to trade up to the Paris Hilton model.

Thanks Jake. Hopefully the rest of the media will wake up from their John McCain fantasies enough to start pointing these things out.

McCain just lost - to Paris Hilton...

Are you talking about the guy who wears $560 a pair shoes, bought and paid for by his wife's trust fund?

Being a celebrity seems like a better qualification for President than having been a POW. Especially when you're a celebrity for inspiring people with a new agenda for America...It's a shame McCain's constant tv and movie appearances didn't actually lead to real celebrity.

A few comments: It's become standard practice to accept McCain's flaws as making him more genuine, While Obama's are some kind of fatal greek tragedy waiting to happen. I think the Republicans need to wake up and realize that the more they try to rationalize people like McCain, the less they'll be able to contain their excesses, which reflect poorly on them and their politics.

Second, let me speak to something: McCain's not the smartest, nor the most decent candidate in the world. He has problems. But the Forrestal fire was not his responsibility.

The fire was started because

a) a safety pin had been removed from another jet's Zuni rocket pod,

b)the plug that powered the pod, which is supposed to be left out until it is put on the runway (where the rocket will safely go out to sea if accidentally fired) was plugged in, and

c)a problem with the electrical system sent a surge through the circuit going to the rockets when the pilot switched to internal power from the outside generator. This caused the firing.

It was McCain's jet that was hit, resulting in a fuel fire and the dropping of two WWII bombs. McCain barely got out alive from that.

I don't like him much, but I like the truth just fine, and can live with him not being responsible for every disaster he was involved in.

At last this gets some notice.

John and Cindy McCain have a $100+ million dollar fortune, houses all over the place, private jets, and John McCain has so many appearances in movies and on tv shows.

Distorting facts like John McCain's campaign is doing is disheartening, and represents a deep lack of character.

Furthermore, even as he complains about getting less news coverage than Barack Obama, John McCain shmoozes the media to avoid focusing on these areas.

Why can't we get the facts out and let people make up their own minds when they see the enormous McCain wealth and celebrity?

And of course, Cindy McCain was able to elude prosecution for her drug crimes. How many are sitting in prison for the same thing Cindy McCain did? Does John McCain support leniency for all them too? Is anyone asking?

This is like the San Francisco mayoral race a couple of years back. Gavin Newsom, whose mom worked three jobs to support him and who went to college on a partial scholarship and student loans, was painted as the blueblood elitist, while his opponent Matt Gonzalez, whose dad was an executive at B&W tobacco and who went to Columbia and Stanford Law, was made out to be the true populist. Newsom won.

Thank you, Jake! You're one of few in the media who has bothered to point this fact of 'celebrity' out. Nice work.

You left out a big one...

Which Senator announced his candidacy on Letterman?

Which presidential candidate has reporters gushing and fawning over him, bringing him coffee and donuts just how he likes them?

Which presidential candidate holds BBQ at one of his several homes with reporters and journalists flocking to get in line, so they can kiss up to him?

If that isn't celebrity treatment, I don't know what is.

McCain's The Daily Show's most-frequent guest - 13 times!

John McCain has been sucking at the government's teat all his life. His birth was paid for by taxpayers, and thnaks to preferential action he received a fully paid for college education at the taxpayer's expense. He then received a coveted slot as a pilot in the Military, and after he was released from captivity, a life time disaiblity pension was approved for him even though he was capable enough to be elected to one of the highest government positions.

What other than being a prisoner-of war has McCain accomplished in his life?

Who wears $520 italian shoes?

For the intelligent ones, For those that can rise above party affiliation, be the judge - whose is elitist between Obama and Mccain? Who has lived the life of an elite all his life?

McCain had NOTHING to do with the disaster on the aircraft carrier.He was an
innocent bystander,whom happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
OBAMA is fraud, a fake and a dangerous individual.I would gladly have accepted Hillary as President and I despise her husband.