The New York Times: What Has Barack Obama Accomplished That Entitles Him To Look Down On His Fellow Americans?
14 Apr 2008 13:36 Africa/Lagos RNC: The Mask Slips, From The New York Times WASHINGTON, April 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is an op-ed by William Kristol and is being issued by the Republican National Committee: I haven't read much Karl Marx since the early 1980s... 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. ... 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." ... [I]t's one thing for a German thinker to assert that "religion is the sigh of the oppressed crea...