Is this on National Review Online.....have you sent it to Palin/McCain etc.?
Of EVERYTHING that has come out so far, this is one of the best. Membership in the New Party etc. is big, but this is bigger because of WHAT he said and that it is his OWN words, not a membership the party itself disputes.
For some reason another Freeper points out in a post the section about his view on the Supreme Court. WHO CARES????
That is not the big deal here....
His view of redistribution of wealth IS.
Here is the actual quotes:
“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....Any three of us sitting here could come up with a rational for bringing about economic change through the courts.”
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Nice response from McCain camp today on this audio:
“”The American people continue to learn more about Barack Obama. Now we know that the slogans ‘change you can believe in’ and ‘change we need’ are code words for Barack Obama’s ultimate goal: ‘redistributive change.’ In a previously uncovered interview from September 6, 2001, Barack Obama expressed his regret that the Supreme Court hadn’t been more ‘radical’ and described as a ‘tragedy’ the Court’s refusal to take up ‘the issues of redistribution of wealth.’ No wonder he wants to appoint judges that legislate from the bench – as insurance in case a unified Democratic government under his control fails to meet his basic goal: taking money away from people who work for it and giving it to people who Barack Obama believes deserve it. Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change,” McCain senior policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin said in a statement.”
No silly statement from the McCain team is going to get the job done.
CNN is now covering an Obama rally and he is still peddling the class warfare demagoguery that 95 percent of Americans will get a tax cut.
Can’t wait until February when these idiots learn that BO will start confiscating incomes beginning at 42 K.
BO has gotten to McCain’s right on tax cuts, and McCain should be ashamed of it. What an inept candidate.
Yes, I am voting for McCain.
Team McCain is again missing the critical point that the American people will recoil from.
Liberties are NOT NEGATIVE. Period. Liberties are what men and women have given their lives for 200 years in defense of our nation and its freedoms. The liberties in the Constitution are written specifically to protect us FROM GOVERNMENT TYRANNY.
Let’s have a fight between LIBERTY vs SOCIALISM. Bring it on.
Team McCain will be too chicken.