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FTA: "The Huffington Post Web site reported Friday that Obama, speaking of some Pennsylvanians' economic anxieties, told supporters at the San Francisco fundraiser: "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years. ... 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."

How is that elitist? Can you compare that to George "I Want A War and I Want It NOW!" Bush, who described a group of multimillionaires, laughingly, as "My base"?

Obama's doing exactly what John McCain **used** to do: he's speaking the plain truth. And it's painful to admit that the majority of Americans vote more often against something than for something, but we do.

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>And Hill and Bill, who earned $105 million over the past seven years, would see middle America at an equal level? Hardly!

Isn`t that a little less than what McCain`s in-laws made in interest alone over the same time period?

compare them both to Obama who turned down any law firm in the country to work in downtown Chicago working in under-represented neighborhoods.

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Injest,

You completely miss the point. Obama's comments illustrate not reality, but the **perceived** reality that motivates many middle-class voters (both urban AND rural). He doesn't need to agree with your insightful (:^D) POV to accurately explain American voter habits.

I doubt that Obama's comments only apply to small towns, and only in PA, otherwise, the Clinton camp wouldn't be posting "Not Bitter" signs in Carolina cities and on Philly street corners.

But for the record, my town's got a smaller population then the four square mile neighborhood near Wrigley Field when I lived in Chicago.

BTW: Another indication of the widespread truth of Obama's comments is the vast grassroots support of those not usually involved in politics. You don't have to be a Bible thumper nor a gun toter to see this country needs **real** change, not **more of the same,** which most voters have proven we expect to get from either Hillary or McCain.

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