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To: gotribe; All
While Obama does not use such a succinct formula as "spread the wealth" here, it is quite clear that he is saying the civil rights movement did not go far enough because the ultimate goal is to redistribute wealth through the political process. He even uses his favorite word "change" in this context, which finally gives some substance to the Obamessiah's mantra of change, change, change. The Warren Court "wasn't that radical" but the Obamamessiah wants to go much further in seizing resources with the arm of the govt. in order to "redistribute" them:

OBAMA: "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....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."

91 posted on 10/26/2008 10:13:51 PM PDT by Enchante (The real "bitter clingers" are on the LEFT -- ranting Obamabots clinging to delusions!!)
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To: Enchante

correction to my own post: actually, Obamessiah does use the phrase “redistribution of wealth” which is the slightly more academic version of “spread the wealth”


94 posted on 10/26/2008 10:30:15 PM PDT by Enchante (The real "bitter clingers" are on the LEFT -- ranting Obamabots clinging to delusions!!)
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Just as importantly is that he ties his vision for redistribution to the roles required by community organizing groups (ACORN) to create a groundswell for it and a super-majority in Congress required to pass it into law. It’s all there!


102 posted on 10/27/2008 3:50:42 AM PDT by gotribe (obama just sucks)
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