Before it gets more blown out of proportion

in the news--- Obama said this in California at a fundraiser- to a group of people he wanted to receive money from.

The context apparently is that he is explaining the challenges faced by the campaign. He is not grousing about people -as has been suggested by one of his challengers. Nor is he apparently 'out-of touch' with the working class as was suggested by the other. My take on it is that he has pretty accurately described a very real situation.

He says, in part:

"Our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of 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 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."

"Now these are in some communities, you know, I think what you'll find is, is that people of every background -- there are gonna be a mix of people, you can go in the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you'll find Obama enthusiasts. And you can go into places where you think I'd be very strong and people will just be skeptical."

I think dissecting this in a way that tries to make Obama out to be aloof or elitist is utter nonsense.