Presidential hopeful Barack Obama is currently being taken to task by the other presidential candidates of both parties for publically stating that he found small town Americans to be "discouraged and bitter" over their lot in life?

If anyone could be labeled "arrogant and aloof" it is those other presidential candidates that, having been out of touch with real America for years, deny the truth of Barack Obama's words!

As the former host of the Helena TV production "Voices of the Veterans," I still receive mail and phone calls decrying America's neglect of our economically disadvantaged citizens.

America, do you really think the workers in the steel mills of the East, having been told their employment has been curtailed and their mills closed forever, are NOT bitter?

Do you think the loggers and millworkers of our West, told to find other permanent employment, are NOT frustrated? Can you blame the peoples of the southwest, facing constant trespass of their land by illegal immigrants, for choosing the gun to right the wrongs being inflicted upon them?

Wake up, America! You are in far more danger from "America's dispossessed" than you ever were from foreign terrorists!