Once upon a time, a Democrat presidential candidate squared off against a military hero put up by the Republican Party. The Democrat was from Illinois. There was a war going on.
By the time of the November election, the Republican won --- against all odds. That was because Adlai Stevenson was dubbed an "egghead" --- the 1952 equivalent of being "elitist". Or at least that's what The Hound has been told.
Which is what Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is being labeled by both his Democratic rival, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, and Republican standard bearer, Arizona Sen. John McCain, a Navy pilot and Vietnam War POW.
What touched off this latest name calling, was Obama's pronouncement in San Francisco, of all places for a son of the Illinois prairie to fess up his liberal elitism, that small-town America was "bitter" because of the economy and what we can expect in 2009, once President Bush leaves office.
The freshman Illinois senator noted that because of what's happening with the economy --- is it really the economy, stupid? --- small-town Americans shrink back into an isolationist shell and rally around their religion, guns and xenophobia.
Talk like that won't get one re-elected to the Senate in some parts of Illinois, let alone the rest of the nation.
Which is what happened to Stevenson --- the man from Libertyville, as some dubbed him. Or at least that's what The Hound was told by somebody who knows a lot about stuff like this. The Stevenson mansion, which the County of Lake owns, is just south of Route 60 in Mettawa and Vernon Township --- not even Libertyville Township.
In the end, Stevenson was dubbed an egghead, because he complained his message couldn't get across to American voters. Political advertising in TV spots just didn't fit his message. He tried again four years later, with the same result.
The lesson here? Once an egghead, always an egghead.
You're an egghead for posting this garbage. I wish people would stop taking segments of speeches and run with them....Educate yourself before you write irresponsible blogs trying to sway voters away from Obama. Read...Read....and then Read..
THE HOUND SEZ: OK, brainiac, The Hound is posting garbage? Boo-hoo, you bozo. And, as they used to say in San Fran: "We're all bozos on this bus."
Obviously, you know nothing of political history or history of Illinois politics. You probably were in the audience in San Francisco when our junior senator just about kissed off most places between the Mississippi River and Truckee, Calif. Trust The Hound on this one, Einstein.