It seems to me that everyone is getting pretty up in arms about Obama talking candidly about the American people. This is the same type of criticism he made in the race speech that everyone called brilliant.

He is obviously not describing every person in middle America, but to brush off his argument that people cling to things like religion due to anger, bitterness, and lack of understanding about what's going on around them is is an oversight at best and a fatal flaw at worst.

We as a people have reached a point where we have to stop tiptoeing around what is happening in our society because it might be "offensive."

If I were to say, for example, that many southern voters vote Republican due to a misunderstanding about the elitism of Democrats, and instead often vote for folksy pols like GW Bush, who in reality has the exact same elite upbringing, and that their misunderstanding of that is directly related to their own poor education, it could certainly be spun that what I'm trying to say is that southerners are stupid.

What I am actually saying, though, is that the more educated north is at an advantage at understanding issues because of the intellectual resources that they have and southerners don't.

Folks on this board might disagree with that assessment, but most New England Republicans must recognize that more often than not, they support what could be construed as an "elite" republican candidate. Hell, sometimes, such as the election of Bill Weld vs. John Silber, the Republican candidate in this area is more liberal than the many conservative Democrats.

Instead of making blanket condemnations about what Barack is saying, why don't you try considering it instead.

This is not to say that groups like DFA aren't lambasting fragments of speeches made by the likes of John McCain, et al. But that isn't to be celebrated either, and to be fair, is not as widely read or appreciated specifically because, for once, people seem to actually be looking for substance - something that both Obama and McCain, and to a lesser extent even Clinton, can offer.

To the question actually posed, how can he not support the alleged heir-apparent to John Kennedy's legacy? Personally, I think the Democrats have painted themselves into a corner before Obama was fully vetted. They will pay the price in November.