IMO, crap like that is why he is tied with McCain now.
It is sort of like his comments I heard today talking up the wonderful Chinese infrastructure and how it is so much better than ours. I am sure a lot of his union supporters wouldn't appreciate that if they stopped to think about it. Not to the mention him saying that business will want to move there because of that infrastructure; because they certainly wouldn't do so because he raised taxes on them or he imposed carbon emissions limits. No, can't be that.
I don't know who his speech writers are, but they certainly could be better.