is elitism that bad?

Just to let y'all know, i am a firm supporter of socialism but at thsi point, the US needs a so-called 'elitist' president who will save this country from doom!


OK... for a while now I've been constantly hearing the word elitist being associated with our new democratic nominee B. Obama. I know what the dictionary term "elitism" means, but i decided to do more research on the subject. After a day on the net i realised that elitism is not that bad, especially if we are talking about the government.
i have no idea why all these people complain about Obama and all the other liberals being 'elitist'. I find absolutely nothing wrong with being better than somebody else in terms of intelligence, wealth, power , etc. in fact, i believe that all these things are necessary in order for the society to function properly.
To me, being elite simply means being more intelligent and having more power than the regular people. There is nothing wrong with that. Those who believe that there is a problem should simply create their own COMMUNIST society where no one is better than the other ( it's not even possible , you know)
Here is what i think.. I think that i would like my president to be better than i am. Hey, that's why that person is elected president-because he/she is better than everyone else. Why is everyone who is intelligent and believes that intelligent people should run the government considered an elitist? i think that people like me simple want what is best for their country. i am tired of idiots running my country- i want someone intelligent, someone who knows what he's doing to be my president.
Sorry people, in every single society there are going to be people better than you and me. Now we must either accept that and deal with it or have another idiot as our president.. It's your choice.
Like i said, i have no problems with elitism - in fact we have proof of what happened when people tried to eradicate elitism in Russia during the Russian revolution. the intelligent people, the bourgeoisie, was killed off because they were better than everyone and all the peasants were given power... Yeah, we got idiots and peasants running the country and pretty much ruining everything. Well, like i said i would much rather have someone smart and respectable running the country rather than a "people's person" ....