Highfalutin in US Politics ..

I read in the Time Mag, it reported that the middle class American regards Obama has a guy with highfalutin fluency with language. I checked the on-line dictionary, it says, highfalutin means pompeous or pretentious. I think this election is getting too microscopic. People are scrutinising the candidates too closely and may risk overlooking the big picture ...... who got a bigger pimple or more black heads ...