Today, asked if Obama's comments were elitist:

"Oh I don't know, I think those comments are elitist," McCain said. "I think that anybody who disparages people, who are hardworking, honest, dedicated people who have cherished the second amendment and the right to hunt and the right to observe that and their values and their culture that they value and they've grown up with and sometimes in the case of generations and saying that's because they're unhappy with their economic conditions, I think that's a fundamental contradiction of what I believe America's all about, that I tried to describe in my remarks.

"These are the people that produced a generation that made the world safe for democracy. These are the people that today their sons and daughters are in harms way, defending this nation. These are the people that have fundamental cultural, spiritual and other values that in my view have very little to do with their economic condition, but has everything to do with what de Tocqueville said America was all about 200 years ago and is the same today."