So I was listening to talk radio this morning and doggone if I don't feel blessed for having a great couple of guys to listen to on my morning drive. This morning they were talking about the "elite" tag and how stupid it is. These people all make boocoodles more money than I do or probably ever will. They all went to prestigious academic institutions. They've all served this country (and/or desire to do so) more than I do. They are all by definition part of the "elite", the best of the best, the cream of the crop, etc. To turn this into some sort of pejorative is just plain silly. I want the elite to be up there. I want Ivy League gradutes, people that have risen to the top of the business, academic, and/or military worlds to be elected to the highest offices in the land. Don't you?

So having said that I have to tell the three folks in that picture up there to stop acting the fool. A river of Crown Royal, a 300 game, shooting at clay pigeons, none of the games that you're playing are going to make you look like regular folk. They will only come across (to anyone paying attention) as pandering. You are the elite. Sometimes (looking at you junior Senator from Illinois) you will say things that sound arrogant, because of that. That's okay by me. Often you will say things that seem to make no sense to me. I chalk that up to the fact that you are giving (essentially) the same speeches ten times a day for what, fifteen months now, and you have cameras stalking your every move waiting for that verbal misstep. None of that will convince me that you aren't Top Guns in a way.

Here's what will take you down a peg or twelve. Keep smacking each other around. Keep calling one another knuckleheads. Forget that you're up there on that stage letting me know how much you want to serve the American people. Believe your own press releases. You do these things and all you are is King Stooge.

ht to TSK for photo