So, at a fundraiser in San Francisco, after talking about how economic hard times have affected people in small town Pennsylvania, Senator Barack Obama said this:

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.

Wow. The remarks are of-course getting lots of attention, from both the Clinton and the McCain campaigns. But just take one part out of it, the most telling part, in my opinion: Obama says that when “they get bitter,” they cling to religion.

Now, that might be the attitude towards religious faith that typifies a contributor to some left wing den of vitriol like the DemocraticUnderground.com, but that is awfully far away from what the average American believes, and awfully far away from what you would expect a candidate for president of the United States to portray. Religion equated with bitterness?

Well, I guess we have to cut some slack for Senator Obama. After all, his experience with religion has been attending services at Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s United Church of Christ in Chicago for the past twenty years.

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