Or, as Ace so pithily puts it, “Vote For Me, You Corncob-Smokin’, Banjo-Strokin’ Chicken-Chokin’ Cousin-Pokin’ Inbred Hillbilly Racist Morons.” This is what they really think of the ordinary Joes and Janes they so risibly claim to want to “fight” for, but in fact merely want to despotically rule. And if you think it’s just Obama, you’re fooling yourself; he’s merely the one who has the guts to come right out and say it, which I suppose in a thoroughly offensive way is to his credit, the elitist swine:

But — so the questions you’re most likely to get about me, ‘Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What’s the concrete thing?’ What they wanna hear is — so, we’ll give you talking points about what we’re proposing — close tax loopholes, roll back, you know, the tax cuts for the top 1 percent. Obama’s gonna give tax breaks to middle-class folks and we’re gonna provide health care for every American. So we’ll go down a series of talking points.

But the truth is, is that, 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. So it’s not surprising then that 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.

Um, 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.

Here’s how it really is, Black Racist Jesus: some, if not most, blacks will vote for you, simply because you’re black. Statists will vote for you because you’re a hard-Left statist. And the liberal elite will vote for you because you make them feel soooo superior to the rubes you, and they, so obviously despise.

The lot of them are deluded; they’ve been suckered by yet another race-baiting machine politician who knows how to press their hot-buttons in his mercenary bid for power. Geraghty adds:

Boy, I’d hate for people to get bitter, and to cling to antipathy to people who aren’t like them because of, say, a religious leader… You know, somebody preaching hate from the pulpit or something like that.

Yeah, that would be just awful. Unless, of course, that person was a black progressivist, in which case it would all be just fine. Just to bring the point all the way home, a fine P-shop, via racist, xenophobic, gun-loving hoi polloi yokel Michelle Malkin:

Mmmmm. Cake. Hopey-changey-unity-save-us-from-ourstupidselves CAAAAAKE.

One more thing: anybody else out there enjoying the irony implicit in yet another wealthy, pampered liberal whining about how unfaaaair life is in AmeriKKKa? Because I know I sure am.

Update! McQ:

Obama’s definitely right that the voters of PA are frustrated, but not at all for the reasons he thinks. They’re as frustrated with government being involved in things it shouldn’t be. And they’re equally frustrated with the constant failure of government to do what they consider to be its legitimate job, such as controlling immigration. They’re tired of bureaucrats and politicians running every aspect of their lives. They’re tired of the constant erosion of their rights and freedoms. If you want to know why guns are important to these people consider the size of government and its intrusiveness and the answer becomes plain to see. And what does a politician like Obama promise? Even more intrusion.

While the people there have finally realized “the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them,” they’ve also realized they aren’t going to be replaced by politicians. And certainly not by a politician of Obama’s ilk, regardless of age or color. Maybe PA’s voters are realizing, finally, that it’s up to them to make things happen, and that its government’s job to get the hell out of the way?

One would certainly hope so, yeah. But you know how these rustics are; you can’t rely on them not to vote against their own interests, after all.

Updated update! Even when you’re Black Jesus, you just can’t spin your way out of a hole:

There are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my home town in Illinois, who are bitter. They are angry…So I said, well ya know, when you’re bitter, you turn to what you can count on.

No, you didn’t, you lying, feeble hack. We know very well what you said, and what you meant; we’ve heard the like of it from condescending liberals for decades. We’re not as stupid as to need it mashed up and spoon-fed to us by our totalitarian would-be overlords.

Just once I wish one of these socialist twits would just come right out and be honest about the screwing they’re so eager to give the rest of us. But honesty would be so far out of character for them as to be impossible. Might as well ask ‘em to sprout wings and fly up an armadillo’s ass. Which, y’know, I really wouldn’t mind seeing that, either. At least it’d be entertaining, and insulting only to the armadillo instead of the electorate at large.

Update to the updated update! Steyn:

As Michelle says, they “chose” to “leave corporate America”, and Barack became a “community organizer” and she wound up a 350-grand-a-year “diversity outreach coordinator”. I’ve no idea what either of those careers involve, and most of us seem able to get along without them. But their remoteness from the American mainstream perhaps explains why the Obamas seem to have no clue how Americans live their lives.

And yes, I’m a foreigner. But it takes one to know one, and this guy seems weirdly disconnected from everything except neo-segregationist Afrocentric grievance politics and upscale white liberal condescension.

Or, in other words, toss in the usual reflexive antipathy to national security, capitalism, the US military, and the US Constitution, and he’s Today’s Democrat personified. Or maybe I should say “incarnate.”