The Real Obama

This is from the silver-tongued rock star/messiah who's going to bring us all together?

At the fundraiser in San Francisco on Sunday, Obama outlined challenges facing his presidential candidacy in the coming primaries in Pennsylvania and Indiana, particularly winning over white working-class voters who, he contended, fell through the cracks during the Bush and Clinton administrations.

"So it's not surprising then 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," Obama said, according to a transcript on the Huffington Post Web site.

Yep, the Smoothie-King let the cat out of the bag this time.

Of course, one could try to explain that it's just Obama's irritation at a state that's still leaning toward Hillary. But, examined in the context of his minister's and wife's attitudes, I suspect that the real bitterness on display is Obama's actual feelings toward America's white majority.

And there's more. He's also exhibiting the sneering disdain America's ruling elite feels toward the working class. Let's not forget that Obama's a graduate of Columbia University and, like his wife, a graduate of Hah-vahd Law School. To the ruling class, the values and attitudes we see as normal and healthy are clear indicators of backwardness. To the ruling elite, our faith is mere superstition. Our loyalty toward our traditional culture is xenophobia. Our fight to preserve our jobs only reveals our blind resistance to the glories of globalism. And our determination to defend ourselves confirms their view of us as primitive brutes.

Obama sees himself as more than simply the first African-American Hawaiian president. He's going to be the first angry blue-blood president.