His recent comments about how middle class America is a bunch of bitter gun crazed religious bigots is revealing, even as it is not a shock.

Unshockingly we discover an upper class politician is out of touch with the people he claims to represent.  Unsurprisingly we discover that the liberal elitism we have all remarked on in the past is just as ingrained in Obama as any other liberal. 

For all his claims to be just a middle class guy who did well, his success, like so many others who claim to have that connection, has left him out of touch.  His claim to being a 2nd Amendment scholar has left his no idea why Americans love guns. 

Most revealing is that his roots in his church have left him clueless about how many people rely on their faith as an integral foundation in their lives.

Maybe that is the most revealing aspect, and one of the sources of the greater points of hypocrisy.

Obama's church and his mentoring by Rev J Wright have left Obama with a very cynical view of religion.

Obama's church and Wright himself are apparently more concerned with the Afrocentric message of despair than a message of hope in which most American's see their faith.  Faith in God and in their church to many middle class people gives them a solid foundation of hope and love they can cling to when life does send the twists and turns.

Obama's by contrast preaches despair and anger and ignores the positives.  Obama's religion, for all his comments about bitterness, is rooted in encouraging bitterness.

I find it interesting that his own church uses bitterness as a core value, and he himself has defended that bitterness as understandable, and now in another attempt at relativism he extends that bitterness, but with negative implications.

Is this just more liberal elitism, or is this a new twist?

One of the more interesting elements of the story is Hillary's seizing this as a way to make points.  She may be a bigger hypocrite than he is in that regard, as she has been out of touch with America far longer than Obama.

Both of them are spinning this like crazy, Obama expanding on it:

  "What is absolutely true is that people don't feel like they're being listened to," the Democratic presidential contender said. "So they pray and they count on each other and they count on their families. You know this in your own lives.

" And what we need is a federal government that is actually paying attention. A government that is fighting for working people day in and day out making sure that we are trying to allow them to live out the American dream and that's what this campaign is about."

I read once that a good lie is a blend.  Mix three parts truth and one part lie, then spin and serve.  In this case, he is making good use of that.

It is true that the Government is out of touch, and that the average Politician lives their life taking advantage of that for their own profit and comfort.

Politicians are leeches in that they make their living on despair and deception.

But the fact is that as much as Obama wants to point out this fact, this is actually more meaningless lip service to an obvious fact.

He has done nothing relevant in his career to address this, but now suddenly he is the only hope we have of combating it.  He has lived a wealthy life, safely insulated from that bitterness he now feels compelled to make his focal point.

And Hillary is not much better, she has used this to paint him as a liberal elite, while somehow having the audacity to consider herself not one.  Astounding.

But then again, she has a realistic attitude about is.  She knows that John Kerry was perceived as being too elitist, and she at least is openly warning that the Democrats need to avoid that this time.

Pity she cannot see that she herself is just as elite as those she points her fingers at.

I won't give a blanket pass to McCain either.  He will of course use this in his way, as he already has begun to do, and frankly he offers me no greater hope in Washington DC become more likely to pay attention to the real needs of Americans.

McCain, at this point is the lesser of the evils in the candidates, but he is no less out of touch than his rivals.

Shrug.  The reality is, that brand of elitism is endemic to the political process.

So, is Obama a hypocrite?  You make he call.

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