Michael Barone argues, in this article at RealClearPolitics, that the Democrats have a bad habit of using the first person plural only when they are in power. Right now that is not the case, and so they don't say "our troops" or "our President" or anything else in a similar vein. The fact that they hate the President and his party is a well established fact. One only has to visit the fever swamp on the left side of the blogsphere to see clearly the rage of the Dems. But I wonder if Mr. Barone isn't operating on a false assumption here when he makes his argument.
He seems to be assuming that when the Dems are in power and they use the word "we" that they are referring to all of us. What if they are not? What if when they us the word "we" in this context, they really mean "we Democrats"? After all, they make no secret of the fact that they think the rest of us who don't live in New York, Washington or L.A. are basically stupid hicks who live out here in fly-over-country because we aren't smart enough to rent a U-Haul and move to where they are. They think that people who join the military are somehow retarded or didn't have what it takes to get into Harvard and Yale. They certainly wouldn't be caught dead shopping in a Sam's Club or a Wal Mart.
So who do they really mean when they say "we"?
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