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Calling Obama rich in the same way that Romney and McCain are is ludicrous. McCain is the son of an admiral who went to the Naval Academy and spent years earning relatively large salaries in Congress and the Senate. He also married an incredibly wealthy heiress, and now can't even remember how many houses he owns.
Mitt Romney is the son of the former Governor of Michigan. Mitt turned into a brilliant businessman and made unfathomable amounts of money. He then became the governor of Massachusetts.
Barack Obama was raised partially abroad and partially in Hawaii and partially in Kansas. The one constant in his life was that his family's economic situation ran from working class to poverty-level (occasionally, he was fed with the assistance of food stamps). He was a brilliant student and politician, and managed to earn his way to the Ivy Leagues, a coveted position at the University of Chicago Law School, the state of Illinois's legislative bodies, the U.S. Senate, and now the Democratic nomination for President. He also wrote two well-received books, which recently (as in the last 4 years) allow him to claim a wealthy, but far from ultra-rich, income.
McCain and Romney were scions of powerful families, and each are currently worth hundreds of millions of dollars more than Barack Obama. I'm not saying that any of these facts prove that McCain or Romney are elitist, or that Obama isn't. But it certainly seems ridiculous to suggest that only the latter is, and if you can make a case for any of those three to be "out of touch with average Americans," well, it probably isn't Obama.
P.S. Forseti:
A) OK, I was being flip about nobody liking Romney. But seriously, there's hardly a groundswell of support for his VP consideration.
B) John McCain has certainly accomplished a lot in his life. But let's not call his wealth a "success," unless you consider getting a sugar mommy a resume-builder. The guy married into a fortune.
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