Who The Heck Checks IDs Here?

We have it on high from a noted authority. Those mean and nasty Republican Country Clubs won’t be inviting Barak Obama to join them on the links. Perhaps there just hasn’t been enough Arugula in his diet. Not according to Klein; he offers us the real reason below.

"I just think that the image is kind of hilarious when you think about it: Barack Obama at a country club sipping a martini. It's kind of a parody of the Republican view of the world. Everybody belongs to -- since when [did] we start letting people like Barack Obama into Republican country clubs?"

Yeah, that whole thing is a real knee-slapper. Imagine Barak slumming it over in Orange County, when he could be sipping his Tanqueray and Tonics at The Hahvad Club instead. They probably don’t serve too much Arugula at mere Republican Country Clubs. It’s grown by creepy furriners.

In fairness to Joe Klein, not the jerk deserves fairness mind you, but in fairness to Joe Klein, he was responding to this statement by Karl Rove.

"Even if you never met him, you know this guy. He's the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall, and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by."

At which point Joe Klien really wanted to ask. “Who the heck checks the IDs here? How did this churl Karl Rove barge his way into Jolly Old Ferncroft and not replace his divots? His kind, are not supposed to see this.”

Ah, the standards keep falling and the beer-barians are at the gates. We aren’t supposed to know about it when liberals high-hat the mongrelized, teeming masses. They wouldn’t want us to get all clingy and bitter; now would they?

However amusing it is to poke holes in the hypocrisy of the entire liberal man of the people charade, it clouds a profound and nasty issue. If the right channels Machiavelli when inflaming class conflict, the American Left could write a companion version to The Art of War.

The condescension towards the poor and the less well educated runs as deeply through modern leftism as the Marianas Trench runs through the ocean depths. Powerful liberals weave it into their policy and governance as an autonomic reflex. Dave Peyton writes up an obvious example of how liberal classism informs their governance on major issues of the day.

His comparison of the environmental protections offered to wealthy coastal enclaves versus the treatment of West Virginia, profoundly illuminates the bottomless contempt that the self-selecting American liberal elite holds for working class, white Americans.

My mind wanders back to 1981, and I must ask why Congress really voted for the moratorium (on coastal oil drilling) without thinking of the other ecologically sensitive places it was giving tacit approval to destroying for the sake of energy consumption.

Places such as West Virginia.

It doesn’t require a degree from Cal Tech to figure that conundrum out. Payton gives up the ghost, and lets us all know why he’s bitter a couple of paragraphs later.

Tourists traveling to these sunny destinations don't want to see drilling rigs for sure, but do those who travel to Southern West Virginia and those who live there want to see a bare mountaintop devoid of the hardwood that had been growing there for thousands of years?

Payton soldiers on against the elitist liberal bigotry.

All this begs a question: Are some states and regions meant to be protected while others are meant to give up their natural resources without a whimper?

But is there a big enough and wealthy enough Hahvad club in Charleston, WV? Do our kind of people even live in places like that?

Did Congress ever consider that the ecology of West Virginia is just as valuable as the ecology of Florida and California?

Did Senators Byrd and Rockefeller? Maybe they were too busy trying to impress some important people from out of state to really care.

Or is West Virginia simply one of those states that is meant to be used up in order to provide the rest of the country with the energy it needs?

See! Now Peyton’s just getting bitter and clingy. People have to sacrifice for the brave new world. If Dave Peyton were more sophisticated, he would understand why, and stop pestering the elite while they enjoyed their crisp arugula and broke their pallets with a fine chardonnay.

This entire debate over supposedly partisan country clubs reminds me of why friends should not let friends vote for Democrats. The elite cadre of the party treats the average American the way that socially prominent, rich high school honors students treated the poor guy in the Led Zepplin T-shirt who was trying to get a diploma, a union card and a license to earn a living as plumber. They don’t really hate that guy; they just don’t understand why he won’t just admit that he’s inferior to them in every meaningful aspect of human endeavor.

It’s rough lot being Joe Klein and Barak Obama. They spend so much time having to explain themselves to the Neanderthals.

Obama and Klein may have the money, the coolness, and all the right connections, but as human beings, they are unfit to polish the Led-Zep Dude’s working boots. I hope the average American voter fully understands this before we get saddled with President Obama. That was bad enough scene back in High School.