Obama: Rev Wright for White People

From the Campaign Trail, Obama (Mis)Speaks about the resentful, frustrated working class:

“And it's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Anybody besides me notice how deftly Obama took Reverend Wright’s black oppression template and applied it to the gun totin’ blue collar hicks living in the wilds of middle America?

Now his opponents are accusing him of being elitist, which of course, he is. He’s an Ivy League elitist and his remarks were made in the luxurious company of San Francisco elitists. His audience must have found his comments quite droll as they nodded knowingly. But that shouldn’t disqualify him for president. We’ve had plenty of elitists in the White House. What disturbs me is how he blithely stereotypes Middle America, criticizing them for being anti-trade while dabbling in anti-trade rhetoric himself.

To paraphrase Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz: Obama, I don’t think we’re in Chicago anymore…