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So is anyone who disagrees with Hillary Clinton’s policies now an elitist? ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos asked Clinton if she could name a single economist who supports her proposal to suspend the gas tax for the summer. “I’m not going to put my lot in with economists,” Clinton responded, claiming that “elite opinion is always on the side of doing things that really disadvantages the vast majority of Americans.”
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich contacted two of Clinton’s economic advisers Sunday to see if they were surprised to learn that Clinton doesn’t care what they think. One of them hadn’t heard the remark yet and couldn’t believe Clinton would say it. The other dismissed it as “politics as usual.” But as Reich noted, “that’s the problem: politics as usual.”

The Washington Post ranked the top 10 flip-flops from the Democratic candidates, five from each candidate. Barack Obama’s five: special interests, public financing of presidential campaigns, Cuba embargo, illegal immigration and decriminalization of marijuana. Hillary Clinton’s five: NAFTA, No Child Left Behind law, ending the war in Iraq, issuing driver’s licenses to illegals, the seating of Florida and Michigan delegates.

Here is a historical tidbit: John McCain is hoping to be the first person born in the 1930s to become president. All other decades from 1900 through the 1940s have been represented in the White House. If Barack Obama wins, he’ll be the first president born in the 1960s.