It's no wonder Obama has events closed to the press. The next thing we will hear, he will have banned cell phones, too.

Obama spoke to a crowd at a fundraiser in the sanctuary city San Francisco last week. (click here for article) Obama, thinking he was speaking not on the record, said what rolled naturally off his lips and criticized the people of small towns in Pennsylvania and around the country:

"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 nothings replaced them," Obama, an Illinois senator, said. And it's not surprising then 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," he said."

I wonder if he could name a single town in Pennsylvania, or the Midwest, to which he refers.

The truth is, Obama was talking to a friendly crowd on the west coast that he, wink, wink, knew would understand what he meant.

Obama seems to think that people in small towns who are concerned about things like the second amendment, religion and border security are angry, ignorant hicks. These people, who are most likely voting for other candidates, aren't smart enough to get his message- but that's okay: He doesn't need them anyway.

Now, because someone released his speech, voters in small towns have seen a glimpse of the real Obama. We can't have that...

This morning he tried to explain his statements by telling folks in Indiana (and the world) that he just said something "that everybody knows is true."

He explained that these people simply turn to what they can count on, "so people vote about guns or they take comfort from their faith and their family and their community. And they get mad about illegal immigrants who are comin' over to this country. Or they get frustrated about how things are changing. That's a natural response."

He goes on to explain he didn't say it as well as he should have because "The truth is these traditions that are passed on from generation to generation- those are important, that's what sustains us."

Sometimes, the more he says the less he says.

He has explained nothing and, for people who listened, dug the whole deeper.

What did he say this morning?

Did he mean that people who are frustrated about illegal aliens turn to their guns? Or that people who don't like change turn to their community- which has apparently changed also?

Did he mean to say that Western European Americans who pass their traditions on to their children are frustrated by multiculturalists like Obama who denounce these traditions while telling them that illegal aliens who cling to their culture and their language are completely justified in all that they do?

What did he mean to do this morning?

His goal was to convince America that his message to those in San Francisco was misinterpreted and that he wasn't as articulate as he should have been.

He wants us all to believe that- while he really is the brilliant savior sent to deliver us from all the evil that has been for the last 28 years of Reagan, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush-he sometimes isn't as clear as he should be.

People need to wake up from their trance and see Obama for what he really is- an impudent, middle-aged man who is trying to perform at Carnegie Hall after a career singing in bars.

As I turn to my faith and consider learning to shoot a gun I sadly observe that this presidential campaign has become like a political American Idol and Sanjaya (a cute young guy that my kids and their friends really loved) has made it to the final three...