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The Obama "mistake": Breaking the taboo on discussing class in America

Over the past five days, media commentary on the US presidential election campaign has focused on the supposedly disastrous "gaffe" made by Democrat Barack Obama in his comments earlier this month at a San Francisco fundraiser, where he remarked on the mood of anger and bitterness in small-town and rural America, and how this was expressed in various political and ideological forms.

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