Pick Up Trucks And Obama's Tin Ear

Rex Murphy, writing nowadays for the National Post, takes the measure of Barack Obama one year in.

Obama is a parochial politician. He emerged from the small pool of the university environment and Chicago politics — the former, I think, more significant than the latter. Take his jibes at Scott Brown’s pickup, which he delivered repeatedly in Boston two days before the vote. Only the thickest of tin ears could imagine that slurs and put-downs about driving a pickup have any appeal beyond arugula snobs trading nose-in-the-air witticisms about rednecks.

Does Barack Obama not know that the best selling vehicle in America is, um, a pickup truck? And not, by the way a Government Motors GMC Canyon. No, the best selling vehicle in America is the no-bailout-needed Ford F-150 pickup truck.