Via Stop the ACLU, here is Obama in his own words in 2001, giving up on the courts as a mechanism for radical change and suggesting a political approach instead:
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. 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 tendancy 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.
This man thought the Warren Court wasn’t radical enough. Wow.
It was, and remains, intellectual fashion in much of academic America to dress hard-core radicalism in verbiage.
The erudition of the opinions Obama expressed do not make them any less radical.
Just remember, if he wins, Obama will be appointing some Supreme Court justices…
…and pushing for “fairness” as not just a political goal, but as the primary substantive basis for constitutional jurisprudence.
Look out.
Thanks for posting this...
DrOldSchool Sunday, October 26th at 10:26PM EDT (link)Odds of the MSM picking this up? Probably slim and none.
Much like the donation fraud issue, it’s too important to cover in-depth.
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- Ronald Reagan, 1975 Speech to CPAC
spread the wealth = restitution
itrytobenice Monday, October 27th at 1:04AM EDT (link)He apparently thinks that this idea of ’spreading the wealth’ is a back door way
of getting racial reparations.
This is not good news.
The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Tried to Recommend this 2 hours Ago but
quill67 Monday, October 27th at 1:16AM EDT (link)redstate server went down. Glad to see that Drudge has picked up the story!!!
This must be headline on Redstate!
This is what will bring Obama down
Illinicon Monday, October 27th at 1:45AM EDT (link)now that Drudge is playing this up the MSM has to atleast mention it and if they dont Im sure Beck, Hannity, Ingram, Levin, and Rush will be playing the interview until the tapes melt. This tape is the clearest indication yet (most people arent going to read his books) to the casual voter that Obama is still stuck in the 60’s civil rights movement and not some post-racial figure that an image consulant gave him. My guess is that when the undecides hear this the first thing they are going to be thinking is how much like Jackson and Sharpton his thought process in terms of race politics in America.
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Likely charges of racism.
SeriousLaff Monday, October 27th at 2:59AM EDT (link)Yes racism will result from bringing this up. But, I hope McCain understands how tired those in middle America are of the race card.
I would like to see McCain come right out and say, “Bringing up Obama’s record is not racist. It is perfectly legitimate in an election campaign and we are tired of the Obama camp continuously playing the race card. Even former President Clinton complained about this. We are not playing that game anymore.”
And the result is the GREATES WEALTH DISPARITY IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO.
Rod_Patrick Monday, October 27th at 5:25AM EDT (link)Barack Obama’s economic plans and rhetorics are a big sham.
THIS IS HUGE!!!!!
bk Monday, October 27th at 5:32AM EDT (link)Drudge is headlining it.
HUGE?! If the MSM refuses to cover it, and the McCain Campaign refuses to highlight it ...
Martin Knight Monday, October 27th at 6:36AM EDT (link)then it’s … not.
To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it.
- Margaret Thatcher
NOTE: “consensus” = “Bipartisanship™”/”Centrism™”
Perfect!
bigfoot Monday, October 27th at 7:21AM EDT (link)I wish McCain’s speech writers would take your exact words and pound the MSM with it. Simple but clear.
“To believe in nothing is to believe in everything. To believe in everything is to believe in nothing”
I'm thinking word will get out
bk Monday, October 27th at 7:40AM EDT (link)The MSM will have a hard time ignoring it I suspect, and it will be hard to put any sort of positive spin on it. It’s a natural follow-up to the endless Joe the Plumber stories.
WHO IS BARACK OBAMA?
WHAT Monday, October 27th at 8:26AM EDT (link)A MAN NOT READY TO LEAD.
yo, WHAT
Streiff Monday, October 27th at 8:48AM EDT (link)fix your cap lock or stop posting.
“A man does what he can and endures what he must.”
[Ah, the AIP tell.]
MIKEtheAMERICAN Monday, October 27th at 8:54AM EDT (link)[So very useful in these quick troll assessments. - Moe Lane]
"it didn't break free....
chuckie Monday, October 27th at 10:05AM EDT (link)…from the essential constraints placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution…”
well, what a goshdarn shame….
and here all this time, i been thinking we’re supposed to be in favor of “upholding” the constitution….
….silly me…..
To be fair, his views have "matured" since then
bk Monday, October 27th at 11:42AM EDT (link)I’m sure that instead of “I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for it I would be okay” he’d now say “I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as some ‘rich’ taxpayer could pay for it I would be okay.”
I'm seeing this story
Terilyn Donaldson Monday, October 27th at 8:08PM EDT (link)in many places. I live in NE Wyoming and there was the article in our local paper. Maybe it’s just here, but I think it’s getting around.
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Fuzzy Math calculator, numbers that spin more like a roulette wheel and just as big a gamble
JLenardDetroit Tuesday, October 28th at 6:18PM EDT (link)Obama’s campaign site now is trying to imply (read:spin) a new link/site TaxCutFacts.org as some impartial comparison of the two candidates differing Tax policies that they will enact if elected.
Go to the site to try the full calculator, but here is a limited function one:
What, of course, IT DOESN’T TELL YOU is how IT DISTORTS THE FACTS. In order for Obama’s Tax Cuts to “appear” better than McCain’s Tax plans it first takes into account the CANCELLATION OF THE BUSH CUTS and THEN REINSTITUTES THEM AS PART OF THE OBAMA PLAN (except, of course, those pesky breaks for the Rick folks, the top rate will be left back at 39%). McCain will KEEP the Bush cuts AND BUILDS UPON THEM! So when you do the calculation, you get McCains “additional” (ON TOP OF THE CURRENT BUSH TAX CUT SAVINGS) to compare to the distorted/phony Obama number. It compares Apples to prunes (and designed to give you the …. that the prunes would).
FIGHT THE DISTORTIONS of the ObamaBinBiden ticket, you must let your friends know of the manner in which they are attempting to deceive them in regard to the Tax Cut plans!
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Can We Start Talking About This Again
Swamp_Yankee Thursday, October 30th at 10:28AM EDT (link)It always seems like McCain gets good traction on an issue and then for some reason conservatives let it go.
In NH, talk radio was abuzz with this. The dumping on the Constitution. The radicalization of the Supreme Court, the socialism. This is real. This is good stuff. It works.
It needs an ad or some more press somehow.
Not Dead Yet!