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"Barrack Obama: "If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and it's 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 ok."

"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 I think as radical as I think people try 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 its been interpreted. And Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution as a charter of negative liberties says what the State's can't do to you, says what the Federal government can't to you 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. And one of the I think tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing activities on the ground that are able to put the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change, and in some ways we still suffer from that."

It sounds to me, in the middle paragraph above, that Obama is essentially saying he does not support the U.S. Constitution.

90 posted on 10/26/2008 6:52:08 PM PDT by dano1
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I can't take credit for this, it is a variation of a comment on the You Tube

Who is Black and White and Red all over?

99 posted on 10/26/2008 6:56:18 PM PDT by illinifan (and yes, I am disgusted by my alma mater)
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What’s chilling about this is it shows that Obama holds his radical anti-Constitutional beliefs not out of ignorance of the Constitution and the Founders’ intent, but instead with full understanding.


122 posted on 10/26/2008 7:13:02 PM PDT by Yardstick
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