Back in San Francisco after a stint on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania Barack Obama stepped into more accusations of bias against white people. Speaking to a group of affluent backers at a campaign fundraiser Obama said:

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 nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration and the Bush Administration and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And its 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.

Mayhill Fowler writing about this in the April 11 Huffington Post went on to say:

Obama made a problematic judgment call in trying to explain working class culture to a much wealthier audience. He described blue collar Pennsylvanians with [what]...might be considered pure negatives: guns, clinging to religion, antipathy, xenophobia.

Instead of talking about hospitality, patriotism and endurance. Instead of talking about hope and change, his hallmarks, he came out with a laundry list of sterotypes against the working class. Slurs which denigrate an entire culture.

Obama doesn't get white people of a certain class. Perhaps they remind him of his grandmother who he has described as a racist with regard to unfamiliar black people. Is this someone who should be President? I know it is not who I want for the next four years.

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