I find it funny that Hillary Clinton has been trying to use Sen. Obama's comments against him. If you have not heard the full quote, Obama said:
"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. ...
Socoioeconomic status is a difference in the distribution of wealth, power, and prestige. Originally understood as the difference between capitalists (the bourgeoisie) and the working class (the proliteriat), “socioeconomic stratification is not a cultural universal; it arose with the earliest states… which first appeared in Mesopotamia, according to anthropologist Morton Fried.
I think many people have a different view of the origin of religion (and I do not mean to offend anyone and their personal religious views) and I am sure many of you have heard of or read about the "Mandate of Heaven" or "Divine Right"; many rulers have used these in order to gain and maintain power—they claimed that they are meant to rule because a greater being or God has granted them this rig
