I agree (saw that video before), but I do think he needs to acknowledge that maybe he made his point a bit inartfully, and then go on to restate his point.

I would really like to hear from someone in the know, how this might play in small-town America.

Thank you for the great link. For what it's worth MY gut tells me this may work out beautifully for him--especially if his campaign points out, as CNN did, that Obama may have had the least "privileged" childhood of the three candidates, so who are they to be calling him elitist?

In Texas we have an amusing saying--don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining. I seriously suspect that everyone who isn't already dead seat against Obama, everyone of a relatively sound intelligence (which has nothing to do with education levels) is going to hear this and say, what, we're not bitter? How can Clinton and McCain think we're not bitter?

And if they start suspecting McClinton's truthfulness on this (especially after all that sniper fire, dontcha know), they'll be more open to the likelihood that they're pissing on our leg about other matters as well.

I'm feeling it too. This helps Barack. He can get angry in support of voters; that kind of anger is perfect. It's also the truth.

I really feel like he "pierced the veil" or "shattered the facade" on this one. Special Interests and narrow decisions are made by us all because we don't expect Washington to do what's right for the country as a whole.

Master stroke. Keep it up 'til PA's big day!

Here in my neck of the woods, we call it "blowing sunshine up my skirt".

PayDay Loans and Check Advance rip-off outlets are in the TOP 5 businesses in Arizona (I can't find where I heard that... NPR a few weeks ago I think...).

MCCAIN allows Arizonans to be ripped off and tricked into peonage at a prodigious rate.

It's not elitist to say this is WRONG! Pounce Barack!

I agree completely...!

Obama Complete Response: http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGBWx9

When I hear people say “...threatening, empty suit, no ideas, or change what...!?!? I go ballistic, either they 're not listening or your incapable of understanding.

Mr. Obama is the real deal, he has advisers not handlers, he is the smartest guy in the running and...our only hope of transcending our countries recent decline to something truly awe inspiring, we can change the world...!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G8dRMofHNs

You can tell which one is a president and which two are politicians.

Wow....the blowback to come is going to be a bitch Ms. Hillary.
Obama just KO'd Ms. Hillary and McCain with one mighty breath.

This man never ceases to amaze me.

Obama needs to clarify:

1) Yes regular people in America are angry, frustrated, even bitter. They have a right to feel that way. We have to know the cause of a problem before we can fix it.

2) Its not condescending to acknowledge how people are feeling and agree with them that they have a right to be angry - it's condescending to suggest that resilience will change things, or that we can just be optimistic and everything will get better.

3) The real elites - people like Clinton and McCan, who have spent all those years in Washington implementing policies that have contributed to the problems people are experiencing now - they don't want people to remember that they are the real culprits for the disastrous domestic and foreign policies that have put us where we are today

4) Voters need to remember that one of the ways the Republicans try to gin up votes is by distracting people with the false problems of guns and gays - they don't want people to think about the real problems that have been created in Washington.