More like, this is how elitists imagine blue collar people think, Obama made his statement to a nodding crowd in San Fransisco , when the blue collar people who don't live in his imagination heard it they realized that he was terribly out of touch with their needs.
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So how is it they actually think, O wise one?
If one is out of work, and knows how and where to hunt, is it not likely that one might depend on one's rifle to harvest free venison, rather than to pay $2.99 (that one does not have) a pound for burger at the Piggley-Wiggley? Would not one's rifle take on an added importance if one were unemployed in a rural area? I taught in a tiny burg for a year (Randle, WA) where the main topic of chatter at the local cafe was hunting, and the main recreation was shooting rats in the local dump.
There were four churches, in a town of under 300 souls. Not big churches, but that is a lot of religion for so few people.
This was in the 1960's, when there was still a lot of logging going on there. Guns and religion were a lot more important there then than they are in the city now. If people were out of work, it seems likely to me that they would be even more popular.
It is not elitist to describe reality. Not everyone wants it described, and that is what seems to piss off the few that did actually get pissed off. Note: rightwing columnists would hate anything that Obama or any Democrat did. They are fond of war and imperialism., and are paid to preach other pro- rightwing views to the proles.
