On being tone deaf

There has been considerable broohaha on what Obama said about guns. It was amusing to read, in Obama's Tone Deaf Statement on the Faithful:

I find Senator Obama very smart, but that comment struck me as sort of stupid -- the kind of half-baked Marxism that might be expected to appeal to a Bay Area audience (he was speaking at a San Francisco fundraiser).

While attacking Obama for presumably stereotyping those in the red zone, what exactly is the author doing about residents of the Bay Area? I live in San Francisco and rarely see much Marxism, half or fully baked. And most certainly not at fund-raisers for mainstream Democrats.

Also amusing was The Mask Slips by William Kristol in the supposedly liberal NYT. The mask that slipped is the author's who attempts to paint Obama as a Marxist, as "disdainful of small-town America — one might say, of bourgeois America".
And finally the question:

But what has Barack Obama accomplished that entitles him to look down on his fellow Americans?

Quite a lot in my view. But hey, not everyone can be a Bill Kristol.

No doubt the attack will oscillate between the Obama=Osama, Obama=Muslim, Obama=Marxist, Obama="America Hater" etc etc.

Is McCain inevitable? He is maler, whiter, and americaner than the other candidates we will be constantly reminded. And he knows that Suni=Shia=terrorist. How depressing.