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More on Obama’s “redistribution”, anti-Constitution mentality

Consider this “spread the wealth, Part II”, via Stop the ACLU:

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 invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for it I’d be o.k. But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society.

I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. You know, the institution just isn’t structured that way.

Consider this “Why I think the Constitution sucks, Part I”:

To that extent, 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 is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or 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, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think 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 coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that. … 

He thinks the Warren Court was not that radical???

Consider this “Why I think the Constitution sucks, Part II“:

Now we have another audio tape of Barack Obama in which he says the US Constitution “reflected a fundamental flaw of this country that carries on to this day.”

But hey, where on Earth would you get the crazy idea that the man is an anti-American Marxist?

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October 27, 2008 - Posted by | Obama, socialism

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  1. [...] the wealth around” amongst all of the non-producers.  Then, we find out he said back in 2001 that it was a crying shame the “non-radical” Warren Court (and, presumably, subsequent [...]

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