Lawyers begetting lawyers? How about if we did make laws that had some basis in reality instead of 1200 page documents that not even the people voting for it understand all to increase the number of red light cameras allowed?
And, by the way, there was a 13th amendment passed by both houses but never fully ratified that would have barred lawyers, people with the ESQ after their names, and "titles of nobility" from being elected to the US congress or president. So, in the early 1800s there certainly was a fear of the "elite" being in power.
Attitude and the company he strives to keep. Education has nothing to do with being an "elitist" because, as previously posted, there are many highly educated people and many brilliant people (because the two are not the same) that are completely down to earth. It's the attitude that (the general) you have the answers, that you are too good to wallow in the cubicle or punch a clock, and you should have other people pay you to do good things.
Elite can be a good thing, like the stewart quote (which was followed up with "If you do a good job, they may just carve your head into a mountain!") because we do want someone who believes they have what it takes to do the job, and most people don't have that. But elite can be pejorative if you wear that label and flaunt it.
And they put it all on the line, sacrificed it all, and lost everything including their lives to form the country. Don't try to paint them as some standoffish bunch who thought they were better than everyone else.
My favorite thing about obama was that he was an unapologetic smoker. (No, I'm not a smoker.) Then he gave that up for "image". What's that say?