http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5792437At first, I thought this bonfire might be about Pedro Picasso.
But no.
Mari333 (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-05-09 07:37 PM
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Champagne Liberals
I am posting this story to get your take on this kind of behaviour. Please bear with me.
The other day I was speaking with one of my acquaintances,a lady who is a very vocal Democrat in town, and gets all gooey eyed whenever I mention Obama's name. She has held fundraisers for Obama, and she is fairly well off, a business owner with a huge bed and breakfast in town.
She shmoozes with city people, has her yard immaculately manicured, has a huge house by the beach etc etc etc
thats all fine, I dont begrudge people their wealth.
However, she made a statement that made my blood pressure go up for a bit.
"Hello! " she said "Oh we just got back from Chicago, we went to Whole Foods, it was marvelous..we stocked the fridge with all sorts of goodies...!"
someone mentioned to her, at that point, that they wished we had a Whole Foods in our small corner of Michigan...
She flipped her hand in the air and said "OH these LOCALS around here MUST have their processed cheese food from WALMART! they would NEVER have the good taste to buy from Whole Foods!"
This is why she is only an acquaintance. if that.
She can fundraise all she wants, imo. It wont do any good with that attitude.
I, personally, cannot stand when people , even liberal people, behave like this.
There are NO jobs here, I know of people living in their cars. I know a man who fishes for his dinner every night or he doesnt eat.
I know of elderly people here who go hungry because they cannot afford food.
To make light of people who cannot 'afford the delicacies of Whole Foods!' is, imo, cruel.
I guess thats what a champagne liberal means.
Yep, that's what Vast Teddy, the Bostonian Billionaire, Ma and Pa Kettle in the White House, Alphonse Capote Gore, John Edwards, Pedro Picasso, Raven, the Bostonian Drunkard, the rich kid grazing primitive, the
kaput primitive, and all these other rich Republicans are like.
cigsandcoffee (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-05-09 07:44 PM
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1. I don't like Whole Foods at all.
They built one up the street a while ago, and it feels like a scam - I'm rarely happy with the food I get there, it's ridiculously expensive, and the whole thing feels like a bunch of corporations cashing in on a fad.
The organic products I really like are able to stand on their own two legs at the supermarket.
Mari333 (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-05-09 07:46 PM
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2. hah I thought so its a prestige thing. I like your style.
One's compelled to ask the Mari primitive--whatever happened to that lady in the parking lot who got her elbow bruised by a careless automobilist going 45 mph the other week?
