Bittergate

by Monica Smith [courtesy of Blog for America]

As you may have heard, Senators Clinton and McCain took exception to Senator Obama speaking truth to power and referred to him as an elitist.  Perhaps they don't know what that word means.  Perhaps, like George W. Bush when he lies to the troops to "build their morale," they think that lying to people to "protect" them from the truth is what's expected of leaders.  Perhaps it's just  their paternalistic instinct that trots out the boogie man when things look bad and relies on the tooth fairy when people's teeth fall out because they lack health care.

In any event, some of the major media outlets took exception to the McCain and Clinton spin and Barack Obama addressed their spinning of his words directly.