It's class warfare, period. Obama is a socialist/Marxist to the core. It's just another excuse to pretend that the government is morally justified in taking from productive people and giving to the unproductive.
Richard Gephardt, former Democrat congressman from Missouri, used to say that the rich were the winners of life's lottery, implying that the only difference between the rich and the poor was luck.
The one thing liberal Democrats won't say, is that the vast majority of rich people worked damn hard to get rich, and deserve to keep the lion's share of what they earned. The socialist Democrats have to pretend that rich people either inherited the money, or stole it.
The socialist Democrats won't admit that the progressive income tax steals from workers and redistributes to parasites. It's hard to buy the parasite's vote, if you admit that all you're doing is stealing on his behalf. Instead of admitting the theft, the socialist Democrats tell the parasites that they are ENTITLED to social welfare benefits.
To say that someone is entitled to something, is to say that they own it. The socialist Democrats are, in effect, telling their constituants that they own the fruit of someone else's labor. The workers are becoming the slaves of the non-workers.