(in an angry tone) something like, "I'm aawyls struck by these poor people who say that we owe them a living, and it's just too hard to work. Look, a lot of people out there work hard. These people need to pick themselves up and go make something of themselves."That would be offensive and thoughtless, and it wouldn't be a defense of it to say, "Well, nobody denies that people are better off by working hard. He's just saying something we all know is true." Yet, this is how people (like Chris B. above) are defending Obama. Obama's defenders are blind to the bigotry he's peddling, so they don't see the problem with the speech like they would see it in my made up speech.