You know you’re an elitist if…
#8
Barack Obama’s oratory power, strength of character, and subtle understanding of complicated issues have actually served to dissolve a venerable portion of the acidic pessimism that’s been eating into your very soul for eight solid years, causing you to actually begin to believe that maybe, just maybe, nuanced intellectual acumen and the nearly bankrupt American experiment do not necessarily have to be mutually exclusive. Only elitist snobs know what “venerable” means. Or “acumen.” Or “you.”
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Mark Morford
San Francisco Chronicle
