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...also talked about how there are four universally recognized tastes—sweet, salty, sour, and bitter??but some scientists believe there is also a fifth taste...
...It’s really interesting to do it with beer,” she said. “You do it with something like Guinness. It tastes really bitter??you put [the tablet] on your tongue and suddenly the Guinness tastes like a milkshake...
...epithet “elitist” also came into currency only when Obama observed that Pennsylvanians are “bitter?? and “cling to guns or religion,” yet somehow Shipler declared that “‘elitist’ is another word for ‘arrogant,’ which is another word for ‘uppity’”—claiming, ergo, that any word synonymous with a synonym of a racial slur is a racial slur...
Earlier this year, Senator Barack Obama stirred up controversy when he said that working-class voters were “bitter?? because of a lack of economic opportunity. He argued that religious bigotry, nativism, and anti-trade sentiment were an outgrowth of this frustration. Although he phrased his sentiments poorly, Obama touched upon a valid point. When people lose their jobs, the natural reaction for many is to blame someone else. Immigrants, legal and illegal, are an easy scapegoat, especially during economic downturns. Given the endless stream of bad news about the economy as of late...
...Elitism and Communism have been hot topics on the campaign trail recently because of Barack Obama’s infamous “bitter?? comments. William Kristol ’73, a sometimes Harvard lecturer and a new addition to the Times’ opinion page, made the connection explicit in a column titled, “The Mask Slips.” With McCarthyite overtones everywhere, Kristol compares Obama to Marx, quotes a little German, and makes sure to reference San Francisco. The message, though cloaked in academic language, is clear: the real Obama is a German...
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