During speech for the AP, Barack Obama puts up the best defense against the elitist charges that he has faced and how he, more than the other two remaining candidates, can relate everyday people.
On of the most potent weapons Barack Obama has is his story and how that story is a story of the American dream.
His father was a goat-herder in Africa.
His grandfather was a solider in Patton's Army.
His grandmother worked on US bombers to help America in World War II.
His mother was a girl from Kansas who was not limited to what people believed she should be or who she should love.
And Obama himself is a man who worked, sweated, and bled to make his own dreams and the dreams of others come true. From nothing he made something.
And now he is on the verge of becoming one of the most powerful people in the world.
That's not elitist. That's freaking making it when all odds are against you.
That's the American Dream.