Another Friday, another Barack Obama story to sort out. Two weeks ago, if you'll recall, we were scratching our heads over exactly what it all meant after Obama delivered a speech in my home town of Lancaster County, Pa.

In this week's Guest Commentary, Dr. Jack Kerwick takes a closer look at Barack Obama's "bitterness" remarks, which were made off-handedly at fund-raiser in San Francisco last week.

Obama's people have been on high alert ever since, and his campaign has been on full spin mode, lining up meet-and-greets with the Pennsylvania proletariat (like the one pictured above) in a desperate attempt to salvage what's left of Pennsylvania.

Hillary Clinton's people, meanwhile, are campaigning close behind Obama reminding any half-hearted voters that her Democratic opponent is the unholy elitist who believes working class Americans cling to their guns and their religion when they get frustrated with little things like losing their jobs and suffering economic meltdowns.

Clinton has had Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell calling any Democrat who'll listen (my wife got a call Sunday night) and urging them to vote for her. Today, US Sen. Bob Casey Jr. called those same Democrats in support of Obama, in what has become a battle of high-profile supporters.

As a brief aside, there's some interesting history between Rendell and Casey that goes back many years. Rendell lost a bloody gubernatorial campaign to Casey's father in 1986 before beating Casey in an equally bloody battle in 2004. Let's just say it's no surprise Rendell and Casey are on opposite sides of the Democratic fence.

Anyway, Kerwick explains why Obama's comments were so important for middle-class Americans to hear and poses a few intriguing questions about the incident that are conspicuously absent from mainstream media reports, the most probing of which is whether Obama's comments had a racial subtext to them.

From the article:

Just days ago, Barrack Obama articulated to a San Francisco audience a succinct explanation of the difficulties he has had in galvanizing Pennsylvania voters. The working-class and middle-class residents of Main Street, U.S.A., Obama said, hold a worldview that is, ultimately, the product of “bitterness” and “frustration.” Because of the exodus of “jobs” from their communities, middle Americans “cling” to their beliefs in God and the Second Amendment, and they have “antipathy” toward everyone, citizen and non-citizen alike, who is different from them.

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