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WBEZ Audio Obama 9-6-01: "Constitution...fundamental problems... deep flaws...enormous blind spot"
WBEZ ^ | 10/27/08

Posted on 10/27/2008 1:09:58 AM PDT by rom

Edited on 10/27/2008 2:37:08 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

I think I found the source audio stream. Notice there are interviews from Rashid Kalidi that month as well. I don't have Real Audio on my machine. Can someone save these before they get "cleaned"?

http://www.wbez.org/audio_library/od_rasep01.asp


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From the site: Summary of Discussion

Slavery and the Constitution

Richard John - Associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse

Barack Obama - Illinois State Senator from 13th district and a senior lecturer in the law school at the University of Chicago

Jan Lewis - Professor of history at Rutgers University, in Newark, New Jersey. She is the author of the forthcoming book Women, Slaves, and the Creation of a Liberal Republic


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Taped panel September 6, 2001:

The September 6, 2001 tape is of a radio interview/panel where Barack Obama - Illinois State Senator from 13th district and a senior lecturer in the law school at the University of Chicago is heard discussing the Constitution, USSC partially with regard to slavery.

At 44 minutes into the tape: phone caller asks about fairness of Constitution

Illinois State Senator Barack Obama responds at 46:24:

“The Constitution reflects deep flaws in American culture ... the Constitution reflected enormous blind spot of those days which continues to this day...”

“There are fundamental problems (in the Constitution which) ... we’re still grappling with today ...”




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KEYWORDS: communism; constitution; democrat; democrats; elections; marxism; marxist; obama; obamatruthfile; redistribute; redistributivechange; socialist; wealthredistribution
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To: rom

It Should Come As No Surprise
Jennifer Rubin - 10.27.2008 - 8:00 AM

Much of the blogosphere is buzzing over a 2001 radio interview in which Barack Obama seems genuinely chagrined that redistributionist policies aren’t going to come from the courts. ( Ignore the captioning on the Youtube which is distracting and not altogether accurate — just listen carefully to Obama’s exact language or read the transcript.) I had a few reactions.

First, a person often identified for the Obama Supreme Court actually does believe in an extreme version of the Constitution, a version which confers all sorts of economic “rights,” so I’m not sure even his supposed caution about using the courts as welfare agencies is to be given credence. Second, it is fairly obvious that Obama was saying nothing extraordinary in his own mind. This is the sort of thing left-leaning “intellectuals” bandied about. It’s the outlook that underscored the bent of not just his closest comrades at the time ( e.g. Reverend Wright and Father Pfleger), but the activist organizations he and Bill Ayers supported through the Woods Fund. It is absurd, really, to write off all these associations as an aberration or exaggeration, or to ignore them as some imagining of paranoid conservatives. What comes through loud and clear was that Obama shared the classic anti-capitalist, redistributionist philosophy accepted as dogma by many on the Left.

Remember, this isn’t ancient history. Obama was sharing Socialism 101 with radio listeners just seven years ago. At the same time, he was sitting on the board of the Woods Fund, going to Trinity United Church, and a enjoying a robust professional relationship with Bill Ayers. Has he given all that up? We don’t know, because no one in the media has taken seriously Obama’s intellectual and professional development. No one has asked him basic questions about the past (e.g. Did he share the ideological vision of the Woods Fund grant recipients? Did he agree with Ayers’ radical educational theory?) or even his current economic philosophy. Doesn’t he still believe in spreading the wealth? He certainly did seven years ago.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/40141


61 posted on 10/27/2008 6:06:19 AM PDT by sono (I'm Senator Government and I approve this message.)
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To: rom

Bookmark


62 posted on 10/27/2008 6:09:18 AM PDT by El Laton Caliente (NRA Member & www.Gunsnet.net Moderator)
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To: sono

Obama has smokescreened his core fantasy until being on the verge of victory in a Presidential election. The technically perfect words and the confident tone are there, but IMO ‘radical’ befits what is coming out of his mouth. What’s he going to do now, recant these statements, or confirm them with vehemence?


63 posted on 10/27/2008 6:13:27 AM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: rom

“The Constitution reflects deep flaws in American culture ... the Constitution reflected enormous blind spot of those days which continues to this day...”

Heil Obamunism!

Seig Heil!!!


64 posted on 10/27/2008 6:15:46 AM PDT by GOPGuide
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To: rom

Just a big thanks to everyone for finding and getting this out. I hope everyone from Rush, FOX, Drudge to the McCain campaign will tear into this.


65 posted on 10/27/2008 6:18:33 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: Gatorbator

Fox has it, Drudge has it. No way CNN doesn’t know about it. (or MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC) They are avoiding it like the plague.


66 posted on 10/27/2008 6:20:27 AM PDT by I'm ALL Right! (Joe Biden: The Michael Scott of politics)
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To: Enchante

MSM refusing to air it. Running interference for the last week.


67 posted on 10/27/2008 6:20:50 AM PDT by tomnbeverly (Night of the Obama Zombies (Premier 11/04/08. Coming to a neighborhood near you))
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To: GOPGuide

I have now reached the point where it seems possible that the entire financial situation we face today was aided and abetted by a mostly unwitting cabal of politicians to shake the foundations of our economy and bring in a political savior to shake foundations of our government. I’m hard pressed to locate in the vast economic literature any evidence that such a plan was published as an academic treatise. My hope is if we can dig up enough comments of BHO, it will be there clear as day, either as his idea, or as a reference to another. We need to dig fast and deep, and look into his network of collaborators. BHO may not be the economic demolition specialist we seek, merely an economic and political reconstructionist.


68 posted on 10/27/2008 6:24:12 AM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: Anima Mundi
That's EXACTLY what he said!

Barack Obama does not understand the fundamental purpose of the Constitution which is, in fact, to restrict Government intrusion on individual fundamental freedoms. He seems to forget that the founding fathers just fought a war against an oppressive government to earn their freedom and they weren't so hot on the idea of ceding that newly earned freedom to another government farther down the road.

69 posted on 10/27/2008 6:27:51 AM PDT by Tucsonican
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To: personalaccts

Time for Barry to throw youtube under the bus.


70 posted on 10/27/2008 6:29:45 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: rom

The only part of the Constitution that is flawed is where the founding fathers failed to put in term limits on members of Congress. But then, eliminating that would have been the very first amendment to it.


71 posted on 10/27/2008 6:37:15 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat. And so is Obama.)
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To: Anima Mundi
"He is sayng it “doesn’t” do that? Is he also saying it “should” do that? Is this how he understands the Constitution? He wants to change the fundamental concept here?"

Absolutely. Tear it down and rebuild it, I think he's saying.

72 posted on 10/27/2008 6:37:47 AM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: rom

Thanks for posting.

We the people who live in the greatest constitutional republic in the history of the world give thanks and gratitutude to the hero(s) who found the audio.


73 posted on 10/27/2008 6:41:59 AM PDT by FreedomProtector
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To: FreedomProtector

It’s a race against time here, my friends.


74 posted on 10/27/2008 6:42:59 AM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: Free Vulcan

THIS IS THE SILVER BULLIT.

McCain/Palin, GOP PAC’s/ Conservative 527’s: Make TV and radio commercials of this and put them on the air by tonight! This will bring Hussein down. The Joe the Plumber conversation was NOT a slip of the tongue or taken out of context. This radio interview confirms it is Hussein’s philosophy.

McCain and Palin will use this on the stump, especially Palin. The MSM will therefore have to cover it kicking and screaming.

They should play TV commercials of this right after the Hussein infomercial on Wednesday night.

What Hussein says in this tape will frighten not only the undecideds by even some of his supporters.


75 posted on 10/27/2008 6:51:22 AM PDT by TMA62 (TMA62)
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To: rom

PING to Thread.


76 posted on 10/27/2008 7:12:55 AM PDT by Danae (Obama = Trickle up Poverty. Don't like it, get ready to be"reeducated" into it if he is elected.)
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To: Brian S. Fitzgerald

One of the quotes has him lamenting that what the Warren Court did in desegregating the schools failed to change the fundamental nature of the Constitution.

He obviously laments that the founding document is what it is.

It doesn’t provide the government with stated power to redistribute wealth on behalf of its chosen groups. That would entail not only earned income at work or in business, but private property and everything else.

I think we here GET THAT.

It’s bad enough by itself, but here’s the core, the key concept that most Americans will recoil from...

POLITICIANS would have the power - under Obama’s concept - to decide what to take, how much to take, and who to give it to, not to mention at the same time as the assault on our system of free and fair elections. (Most Americans don’t like or trust that bunch, as a whole).

Yes, they already wield enormous power and people let them get away with it, but much of that power is wielded somewhat underground through the tax code and transfer payments through government services to people.

This is so above ground. You say you’re going to do it far more than it’s been done. And you directly relate it to a small business that is told, hey, we’re taking your earned money over this limit and turning around and spreading it to others “who are behind you in line”.

And there’s a proposal on the table to send people checks in the mail over and above anything we’ve seen, taken directly from people like Joe the Plumber aspires to be.

And the arrogant way...unmitigated gall of arrogance...that Obama utters the words “redistributive powers” makes my blood boil and sends chills down my spine all at one, which ain’t easy.

Then you’ve got indoctrination in the schools. Teachers openly for Obama and students following them and the media to intimidate other students.

From Florida, in a school where they allow you to wear T Shirts as long as they aren’t obscene or against the school, a young girl wore a McCain-Palin T shirt when most classmates were wearing Obama shirts. The students for Obama came up to her repeatedly and told her she was a racist for supporting McCain.

She asked them how is that racist?

Their answer was that you’re a white girl, and McCain is a white man running against the black Obama. To support McCain instead of the black man - if you’re white - is proof of your racism.

Her parents reported this to authorities, and the teachers as well saw and knew it was happening.

Nobody did anything about it.

The girl and her father were on Hannity’s radio program.

This, and far worse, is going on even as we speak all over the schools in this country.


77 posted on 10/27/2008 7:17:16 AM PDT by txrangerette (Just say "no" to the Obama Cult.)
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To: rom

Ha ha! Obama’s trying to spin this and McCain’s going to bring it up in his stump speeches!


78 posted on 10/27/2008 7:18:18 AM PDT by thecabal (I AM JOE)
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To: Brian S. Fitzgerald

That is not the Barack Obama I once knew?


79 posted on 10/27/2008 7:21:19 AM PDT by rom (Keep Senator Government from Spreading YOUR Wealth! McCain/Palin '08!)
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To: thecabal

Where’s that speech where Obama tried to turn the word ‘socialism’ in to the word ‘opportunity’? That’s another good one. They will keep changing the words to suit them at every turn.


80 posted on 10/27/2008 7:21:36 AM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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