Elitism Defined

Bill Clinton, ostensibly referring to Barack Obama's supporters:

"The great divide in this country is not by race or even income, it's by those who think they are better than everyone else and think they should play by a different set of rules," he said. "In West Virginia and Arkansas, we know that when we see it."

Let's think about this for a minute: Bill Clinton is a driving force behind the campaign that has tried to insist that Florida and Michigan should count, even though the rules say they don't. Even though its own top advisors voted for the rules that say Florida and Michigan don't count. That's the same campaign that has tried to discount caucus states, even though the rules say they count. The campaign that has tried to get the press to rechristen super delegates as automatic delegates. This is a campaign that has shown time and again that there is not a rule of the Democratic nomination process they will not attempt to undercut if it will benefit Hillary Clinton.

And Bill Clinton wants to talk about how Obama's supporters think they should play by a different set of rules?

I have another definition for Bill. Psychological projection:

• "Projection is the opposite defense mechanism to identification. We project our own unpleasant feelings onto someone else and blame them for having thoughts that we really have."
• "A defense mechanism in which the individual attributes to other people impulses and traits that he himself has but cannot accept. It is especially likely to occur when the person lacks insight into his own impulses and traits."
• "Attributing one's own undesirable traits to other people or agencies."