CONSERVATIVES ARE HAPPY, LIBERALS ARE BITTER

"If Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. read Karl Marx less and Arthur Brooks more, he might not be in such hot water.

Barack's now-infamous comments in San Francisco reek of the watered down Marxism that passes for thought on college campuses these days. "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," Marx wrote in 1843.

Barack and his apologists in the news media focused on his description of rural Pennsylvanians as "bitter" because that was the least offensive element of what he had said. Most of those who were upset by his remarks were upset by his notion they "cling to" religion out of economic frustration.

Arthur Brooks could have told Barack the people he described as "bitter" likely are a good deal happier than most of his supporters are, or his wife seems to be. Dr. Brooks, a professor of business & government policy at Syracuse University, demonstrates, through the wealth of statistics in his new book, Gross National Happiness, that conservatives are much happier than liberals. It's urban liberals who are bitter, not small town folks."

-- Jack Kelly