Obama shows he's got all the pickup truck McCain-Clinton can eat

Earlier today, Barack Obama once again found himself under attack from both John McCain and Hillary Clinton. What motivated their attack? These sentences from informal remarks he made at a fundraiser in San Francisco last weekend:

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.

Perhaps not the most elegant way for Obama to make his intended point, but informal remarks in small gatherings rarely are. But viewed in that light, Obama has nothing to be defensive about, and in his response to the McCain-Clinton attack, he stood his ground and went on offense, employing the patented Obama-Jujitsu (focused, rightly, on McCain).

I've posted the Obama's counter-attack in the video pod at the top of the page as well as in the sidebar. It is incredible -- I've never heard him talk like that before. The subtext of the McCain-Clinton attack is that Obama is an elitist. Listen to him -- you'll see he's got all the pickup truck they can handle. If he integrates this tone into his stump speech, he'll have conquered one of the key challenges he has had in connecting with working-class white voters.

Update: Over at The Field, Al Giordano hilariously dispenses with Hillary "$109m" Clinton's foolish argument: Clinton to Rural Pennsylvanians: “You Can Be Victims, Too!"