Scroll For Updates: Video: In Obama’s America, we’ll finally be able to break free of the “constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution” ” and in so doing, achieve “social justice” through “redistributive change.”

Posted by on 10/27/2008

That quote is from Jeff Goldstein:

In Obama’s America, we’ll finally be able to break free of the “constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution” ” and in so doing, achieve “social justice” through “redistributive change.”

Well, then. Fine .

But this is not the America I knew:

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STACLU has transcribed the choice parts of the interview.

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.

MM:

The blogosphere is buzzing about this video posted on YouTube Sunday night. It’s Barack Obama musing about how best to redistribute wealth in America in a Chicago Public Radio interview in 2001.

Not whether, but how: Through the courts or through legislation?

A caller asks The One to explain how he would do “reparative economic work.” Obama gives the legislative route two thumbs up as his preferred method of “breaking free of the constraints” placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution and then burbles about cobbling together the “actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change.”

Ed:

The government does not exist to determine the acceptable level of wealth of its individual citizens.  For government to assume that role, it would have to end private property rights and assume all property belonged to the State.  That is classic Marxism, and as Barbara West of WFTV noted, it runs in Marx’s classic philosophy of “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs”.  That economic direction has been an abject failure everywhere it has been tried, and in many cases resulted in famines that killed millions of people.

The RNC and the McCain campaign has to get these quotes out to the American public in the final week of this election.

Read Bill Whittle in NRO today(via MM):

I happen to know the person who found this audio. It is an individual person, with no more resources than a desire to know everything that he or she can about who might be the next president of the United States and the most powerful man in the world.

I know that this person does not have teams of highly paid professionals, does not work out of a corner office in a skyscraper in New York, does not have access to all of the subtle and hidden conduits of information : who possesses no network television stations, owns no satellite time, does not receive billions in advertising dollars, and has a staff of exactly one.

I do not blame Barack Obama for believing in wealth distribution. That’s his right as an American. I do blame him for lying about what he believes. But his entire life has been applying for the next job at the expense of the current one. He’s at the end of the line now.

I do, however, blame the press for allowing an individual citizen to do the work that they employ standing armies of so-called professionals for. I know they are capable of this kind of investigative journalism: It only took them a day or two to damage Sarah Palin with wild accusations about her baby’s paternity and less time than that to destroy a man who happened to be playing ball when the Messiah decided to roll up looking for a few more votes on the way to the inevitable coronation.

We no longer have an independent, fair, investigative press. That is abundantly clear to everyone ” even the press. It is just another of the facts that they refuse to report, because it does not suit them.

Translation [ace]:

As lefties are suggesting idiotic interpretations, and even some on the right are getting it wrong, here’s what he’s saying:

1. The Supreme Court never considered “redistribution of wealth” or “economic justice” among the guarantees provided to citizens.

2. Even the Warren Court was not “radical” enough to do so — to impose real change on the nation.

3. The courts have generally provided negative constraints on the government rather than positive obligations the government owes to its citizens (specifically, here, such as economic justice and redistribution of wealth).

4. Therefore, it is a “tragedy” that the civil rights movement became so courts-focused, because it limited what redress they could actually obtain — and it took attention away from the “community organizing” efforts which could assemble “coalitions of power” (political power, that is) to actually achieve “redistributive change.” Such change simply could not be had in the courts, still laboring under the “constraints” imposed by the Founding Fathers.

5. “And in some ways we still suffer from that.”

Give it up, lefties — that’s what the quote means.

A mistake the right is making is claiming he wanted the courts to assume a more radical, wealth-redistribitionist posture — which I have no doubt at all he does believe, but he doesn’t quite say that in the quote.

He is saying that the courts were the wrong venue to seek such change, not being “radical” enough, and that “community organizing” and assembling “coalitions of power” were the right ways to do so.

And so he’s done so himself, of course. The courts were not the right vehicle for “redistributive change,” but getting himself elected president, with a socialist-friendly supermajority of Democrats in Congress to rubber stamp his agenda, is the right vehicle.

The “coalitions of power” are being assembled as we speak.


Daily Kos Desperately Spinning Obama ‘Redistribution of Wealth’ Audio

Shame, Cubed Three separate reasons to be appalled, each more disgusting than the last Read this entire piece!

Gosh, it seems like it was only last month that the left was complaining about this administration trampling on the Constitution!

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  8. snowy egret 10/27/2008 at October 27, 2008 - 12:38 PM

    Bill Clinton americas first dictator also rejected the idea of the constitution calling it a radical idea and CHE OBAMA is no different then any other of the demacreep party:o

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