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!
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.
Now she can kick it up a notch and call him Barack the Great Re-Distributer."
On Drudge now . . .
Yes! Awesome! But I am having trouble playing this video. Anyone else having this trouble?
The more I learn the more the picture gets clearer.
This is a dangerous man, FReepers.
Al Gore and John Kerry were frickin’ true-blue American patriots compared to this man.
They have nothing on Barack 0bama.
He will rewrite the fundamentals of our system, break it into ruins and raise up a socialist nightmare that will last indefinitely.
Once the hard-left takes hold it will be extremely difficult to break their hold.
You will have no recourse because you will have no juice as a citizen anymore — you will not matter above and beyond your ability to hand-over your labor (private property) to the state.
Think it can’t happen?
Twenty years ago if you said a black socialist with ties to domestic terrorists who had a racist, anti-semitic pastor for twenty years and who openly, publicly states that he wants to “spread the wealth around” would not only be a candidate for POTUS but hugely popular and ahead in the polls most would have considered you a crackpot.
The Democrats of the 60’s and before have been replaced by hard-core leftists. These are not Americans, as such — these are socialists that do not hold individualism as the cornerstone of a great country — their cornerstone is SACRIFICE — your sacrifice.
Socialism cannot coexist with freedom. Once property rights are gone the rest is moot. If you don’t own your labor (your paycheck) you cease to be the owner of your existence.
They want your 401K in 2008 — what do you think they’ll want by 2018?????
This is serious, serious stuff, FReepers.
Much like the Vampire bat’s analgesic saliva has the left’s “kind-hearted” message and “political correctness” served as a guise and diversion to conceal their true purpose of bleeding you—for your own good, of course.
They are playing for keeps and intent on taking from you the America you have known. They are intent on seperating you from the freedom that would allow you and yours to flourish, to prosper and know happiness. You will be abandoned by the courts, the judges and the law enforcement. They will all be running for cover to protect their own families, their own interests. They will not be able to risk it all to protect you.
This is the human carnage that is socialism and communism.
Americans have no idea what it is — this is the very reason they are so vulnerable to this threat — most can’t even fathom the concept. They will continue their ignorant march into the leftist’s abyss until it is too late.
There will be no retracing of steps to get back out of this. Every inch that we lose now is a yard we’ll have to make up later.
Consider 0bama’s associations with known Communists, Socialists, Racists, American Terrorists and those who very well may be the architects of our current financial problems — some of whom are still working with him and WILL BE A PART OF HIS CABINET.
Imagine your children working 70-80%, or more, of every single year just to pay their tax bill. The 20-30% that’s left is what they’ll have to build their “lives” on.
Imagine wanting to choose a good doctor for your children and learning that YOU HAVE NO CHOICE — the left has already decided who your children’s doctor will be.
Imagine having to kiss the a**es of countless gov’t officials to get the “services” you and your family needs.
Imagine the free spirit, the rugged confidence, the grit, the gumption and the creativity of Americans gone, likely forever. These are but the effect and the natural result of freedom and its only compatible economic system: capitalism.
Americans are not genetically superior to other peoples. Our greatness has come from the ideas and principles we live by — that’s it. You have heard the ideas and principles of Barack 0bama. I am here to tell you that they are indeed DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED to the ideas and principles of the founding fathers and our constitution.
We must fight these people as if our lives depended upon our rage — they MUST BE DEFEATED, MARGINALIZED AND MADE POWERLESS.
Fight them, Americans.
No one is coming. If we don’t defend freedom then it will not be defended at all. You are charged with the keep of freedom in this country.
Our leaders? Inept, incompetent and in charge. They will not save you. You know it, and I know it.
Fight, Americans! Fight, Republicans! Fight them, FReepers!
Obama’s central position is that the historic functions of our institutions should be destroyed so that they can get about their task of redistributing wealth in this society.
And those who oppose the destruction of our institutions and our Constitution?
Get thee to a reeducation camp!
I am literally in tears reading your post.
This is great. I’m sure Drudge is the first thing Rush/Hannity/Beck/Levin/etc. read when the wake up. Should be a fun Monday.
Good work all. Now I can go to bed....
BTTT...excellent
This one’s still there as of the moment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck
Everyone download and save the audio track in case NPR and/or the Obamanation are having YouTube deep-six it!!
Drudge is NOW carrying this story as his headline. Obama is done.
If there are those who could forward this message to obama supporters, I would really appreciate it. Thanks.
A question for Obama supporters:
Which type of supporter are you? Are you the CHUMP—you know, the hard worker who can’t wait to give his wealth away for the common good, or are you the BUM—the one waiting, palm extended, for your unearned hand-out? You do realize that there is no middle ground here? $250,000 or 95%—the numbers have been pointed out to you folks a billion times...you are either one or the other. Obama told Joe he was going to spread the wealth around, and he told Robin Roberts he did not regret having said that. So which are you...CHUMP OR BUM??? I hope you don’t mind either way. But then, you won’t. After all, that is really a small price to pay in order to stick it to Bush while at the same time participating in the making of history by helping to elect an African American to the office of President. I have to say, I really admire the way you guys are able to think so clearly about the deeper issues. I feel pretty stupid voting for McCain so I can use my hard earned money to support my family and help my community. If only I weren’t so shallow.
Frickin’ Aye!!!!!
We could really use some help by the media biggies like Drudge about now.
Drudge is now carrying Obama statements of faulting the Constitution!!!!! Woooohooooo!!!!!
I really didn’t write that to make you cry. Americans really don’t know what socialism and communism means in the day-to-day.
I hope there is some inspiration mixed in there somewhere.
I have had the unique position of being exposed to many Russian immigrants who have been telling me for years that this was coming. They have told me countless times that America is falling to the Marxist-Leninists.
The German and Russian people didn’t fall prey to ruthless leaders because those leaders campaigned on famine, murder, destruction, despair and slow-death. They fell prey because of the kind words and lofty ideals of sacrificing to the “common good” and “giving to the community” and “subordination to a ‘higher national purpose’” or some such message.
The exact same kind of message that Barack and his leftists are selling to half-conscious Americans.
That was my over-all point.
Take good care.
And vote, no matter what! :)
“Obama the Marxist is going down for the count. He is finally getting the exposure he deserves.”
From your lips to God’s ears.
Thank you, Mr. Drudge.
This is huge, thank you so much. I am emailing this to everyone.
yes!
Thanks for the ping, Jan. I will do my best to spread the word!
Thanks. It worked like a charm.
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