Elitist views

With a gas tax holiday polling well, no doubt, Clinton now has a contempt for economists, environmentalists, budget specialists, policy wonks, etc., that rivals only the current president and the presumed Republican nominee. Inspiring.

While focusing mostly on Americans’ frustration with gas prices, Mrs. Clinton also indirectly revived her charge — made in the approach to the Pennsylvania primary — that Mr. Obama was an elitist and unsympathetic to the economic worries of average voters. Appearing on the ABC program “This Week,” she cast opposition to her plan to suspend the federal gas tax this summer as an “elite” view; while she was referring explicitly to economists’ criticism of the suspension, Clinton advisers said she was also seeking to include Mr. Obama in that group because of his opposition to her plan.

Obama's rise in the early caucuses and primaries -- in fact the entire Democratic slate in the early days -- seemed to be ushering in a new kind of political campaign. One that would stay ever so slightly above the bullshit. Instead, the bullshit is pulling Obama back to the ground. How depressing.