I was riding in a taxi about four weeks ago and the driver, whom I know since I travel frequently and arrange for him to take me to airport, brought up how tired he was and didn't know if he could continue.  He works hard, is single, and lives modestly and is enterprising in his cab business and tries to provide real service to customers, like myself, to build his business. Even with his efforts, with gas prices increasing, he was working a lot of long hours trying to make ends meet.
He then expressed how upset he was with how Bush is running the country. And this was visible, palpable anger towards Bush and the Republicans and the impact it was having on him.  We had not talked politics much up to that point beside my mentioning briefly that I supported Obama during a previous trip to the airport. At that time, he was undecided and maybe leaning to Clinton, but now he launched into how he was looking at Obama and how Obama pulled himself up and that had impressed him.
You do not have to travel to western Pennsylvania to find bitterness and anger towards our government.  Barack Obama understands where a large number of people are in this country; these same people do not need to be told who is an "elite" and who is not, by the candidates, or the MSM.
Clinton and McCain disgrace themselves with their hypocrisy and political rhetoric about Obama being an elite. The MSM disgrace themselves through their lack of reporting the story,  instead just regurgitating the rhetoric from the campaigns.  Although, Dan Abrams on MSNBC tonight, to his credit, at least challenged that this "bitter issue" warrants the storm of media attention it was getting.