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Class [Updated]

By SusanUnPC on August 28, 2008 at 4:00 PM in Current Affairs

UPDATE BELOW:

I’m sure that Barack Obama will return the favor. Aren’t you?

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One of our readers sent this to me today from Victor Davis Hanson’s “Obama’s Ten Commandments“:

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10. [Obama should...] do an “ipsa dixit” with Hillary. Praise her, refer to her, thank her, quote her. Obama is in trouble with wealthy mainstream Democratic donors, the white working-class voters and professional older women, who can’t quite express how they were sandbagged by Obama, but feel it keenly nonetheless. He needs to assure them all that he adores Hillary (and even petulant Bill). Once the frantic October campaigning begins, he wants a smile on her face on the stump, not the infamous Clintonian snicker. Maybe he should play a Fleetwood Mac song and then on stage do a duet with Hil. All that requires swallowing his swelling pride — and [that] may be impossible.

CLASS is something that can be taught. Even if one is not raised to behave in a “classy” manner, one can learn it easily from people who exhibit class.

CLASS is what Bill Clinton displayed last night. He left behind, for a half hour, his private feelings, and he spoke about unity and about his support for Barack Obama.

CLASS — if he had it — would have dictated to Barack Obama that he would have made EVERY overture imaginable to both Hillary Clinton and to her supporters.

That Barack Obama hasn’t given us the time of day demonstrates, to me, that he does not have class.

P.S. Kissing Jill Biden fully on the lips, and hard, was shockingly lacking in class. Everyone lightly touches others’ cheeks with one’s lips — NEVER on the mouth. And most certainly not in front of thousands of people and on televised coverage being watched by millions of people around the world.

IMAGINE if Bill Clinton had kissed Tipper Gore hard on the lips!

IMAGINE if Hillary Clinton had kissed Al Gore hard on the lips!

I’m truly surprised more of this has not been made in the media. As I watched it live on television last night, I gasped out loud. It was that shocking to witness.