Barack Obama was at a fundraiser in San Francisco where he discussed the current economic conditions of states like Indiana and Pennsylvania, among other things: "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."

Well ... Hillary Clinton (who earned a whopping $109 million dollars with her husband in the eight years since he left the White House) jumped all over that one and came out swinging calling him an "elitist"; not only while talking about her love for guns but again while swigging, a premium and high end Canadian whiskey in some unexplainable rite of male bonding.

On the Republican side, her long lost political twin, John McCain (who happens to be married to a billionaire heiress) not only repeated Clinton's accusation of "elitism". McCain has Karl Rove and his surrogates claiming that Obama's comments prove he is a Marxist; with good all Democrat turncoat Joe Lieberman claiming that Obama could be indeed a pinko-commie.

It's just ... argh ... urgh ... ack! I have never seen such a firestorm made out of a statement that Obama not only discussed years ago in depth on national public TV that in essence paraphrases what Bill Clinton himself said years ago about the economic situation affecting most of the U. S. working class.

And people wonder why Americans are so fed up with the parsing, triangulating and mudslinging that passes as normal politics.