What Obama said is true. Look at how the oppressed masses of Muslims cling to their religion...

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for guidance and for some, an outlet for their frustrations that are manifested into such things as Al-Qaeda.

For Asshole Kristol to try to to twist this into a "communist" argument is ridiculous.

People who are desperate cling to that which gives them comfort and to that which gives them answers in an uncertain world. Religion is just one "crutch," out of many, that fills that need.


Maybe that's why insecure people in this country identify themselves with the rightwing republican party.


The Mask Slips

By WILLIAM KRISTOL

I haven’t read much Karl Marx since the early 1980s, when I taught political philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Still, it didn’t take me long this weekend to find my copy of “The Marx-Engels Reader,” edited by Robert C. Tucker — a book that was assigned in thousands of college courses in the 1970s and 80s, and that now must lie, unopened and un-remarked upon, on an awful lot of rec-room bookshelves.

My occasion for spending a little time once again with the old Communist was Barack Obama’s now-famous comment at an April 6 San Francisco fund-raiser. Obama was explaining his trouble winning over small-town, working-class voters: “It’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

This sent me to Marx’s famous statement about religion in the introduction to his “Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right”:

“Religious suffering is at the same time an expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of a soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.”

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1. Kristol is a big Hillary fan. I think the neocons are contemplating moving back into the party.

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2. Do we get to vote on whether we WANT them back?

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3. Lieberman kind of jumped on this bandwagon, too.

Can the Democratic party BOOT out a member? I'm seriously asking.