It's Not The Words You Used To Say It, Barak

Campaigning in California earlier this week before a group of wealthy liberal San Franciscians, Obama made a huge mistake. He said what he really thought of white working class people:

". . . it's not surprising then," he said, "that 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."

After first trying to defend his remarks, Obama quickly realized this was one of those cases where it was more important to cut and run. "Obviously, if I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that," he said, inadvertantly compounding the problem.

It's not the words he used to express his beliefs. It's his beliefs themselves, the fact that he obviously believes that working class whites would never object to open borders, free trade, gun control or attempts to neuter Christianity if they weren't so "frustrated" by the lack of blue collar jobs.