It's for being a MARXIST and SOCIALIST, STUPID!!!
Posted on 10/26/2008 5:55:40 PM PDT by Pacothecat
In a 2001 Chicago Public Radio Interview Obama is discussing the best way to bring about a Redistribution of Wealth.
This Video Exposes the radical underneath the rhetoric!
This is the transcript, courtesy Perdogg on the Sean Hannity board (I haven’t proofread it but it looks like it’s an accurate portrayal):
TRANSCRIPT:
MODERATOR: Good morning and welcome to Odyssey on WBEZ Chicago 91.5 FM and we’re joined by Barack Obama who is Illinois State Senator from the 13th district and senior lecturer in the law school at the University of Chicago.
OBAMA: If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples. So that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be okay.
But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent as radical as people tried to characterize the Warren court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can’t do to you, it says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn’t shifted. One of the I think tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributed change and in some ways we still suffer from that.
MODERATOR: Let’s talk with Karen. Good morning, Karen, you’re on Chicago Public Radio.
KAREN: Hi. The gentleman made the point that the Warren court wasn’t terribly radical with economic changes. My question is, is it too late for that kind of reparative work economically and is that that the appropriate place for reparative economic work to take place – the court – or would it be legislation at this point?
OBAMA: Maybe I’m showing my bias here as a legislator as well as a law professor, but I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. The institution just isn’t structured that way.
You just look at very rare examples during the desegregation era the court was willing to for example order changes that cost money to a local school district. The court was very uncomfortable with it. It was very hard to manage, it was hard to figure out. You start getting into all sorts of separation of powers issues in terms of the court monitoring or engaging in a process that essentially is administrative and takes a lot of time.
The court’s just not very good at it and politically it’s very hard to legitimize opinions from the court in that regard. So I think that although you can craft theoretical justifications for it legally. Any three of us sitting here could come up with a rational for bringing about economic change through the courts.
I am sure Rush and Hannity can do some good things with this.
It's for being a MARXIST and SOCIALIST, STUPID!!!
I just e-mailed this to Drudge and FOXnews.
This has got to get out there. Everybody should listen to this audio.
This is very, very scary.
Thanks for pinging me this MUST see video!
I wish I could listen from here. I am going to take a wild guess that it's the same kind of tripe that we had to listen to at Cleveland State University a few years back in the mandatory "black studies" class.
With Obama, we will become the U.S.S.A. - The United Socialist States of America.
Do you think Oliver Stone will be doing the movie “Hussein” in four or eight years?
Ditto.
Thus, the modern Walter Duranty media loves him like they love all other jackasses like him. He is a COMMUNIST!
Obama’s big con is the top 5% get their wealth redistributed.
But that is only Phase 1.
What he doesnt talk about is Phase 2.
Under Obama in 2011, 100% of taxpayers will get their wealth redistributed when their taxes increase, once the Bush Tax cuts expire.
Kathryn Jean Lopez now has mentioned this in the NRO Corner.
NRO the Corner just put it up:
It Wasn’t Just a Joe-the-Plumber-Inspired Whim [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
In a radio interview in 2001, Barack Obama unequivocally embraced “redistribution” of wealth several times, and also laments that the Warren Court was not liberal enough.
Tell me this isn’t socialism. Obama is the most radical nominee for president in modern history.
Enter at our own risk.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmRjOTkzNzA3OWE1MzdkNTg1OWM0ZWE5MWZkNjkzOWI=
Beat you by 5 seconds ;)
Bookmark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jan,
As you know, Colorado is a must win state. Can you get this to local radio hosts?
A short version on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck
The original show is from the January 18, 2001 Chicago Public Radio show Odyssey. Their audio archive is here:
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/od_rajan01.asp
The 52min audio of the entire show is here:
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/ram/od/od-010118.ram
Good I hope this spreads to Sean and Rush
Yeah, that and “Barack the Wealth Spreader” Love it!
95 posted on Sunday, October 26, 2008 9:54:14 PM by GVnana
That’s what I heard her say tonite and last night.
She’s great.
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