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Spread The (your) Wealth Around 10/27/08

 

Timing is everything.

 

Just one week ago I wrote about the differences between Constitutionalists and Reconstructionists. I suspected Obama was a socialist in his heart but as all socialists realize espousing their true Marxist beliefs is the kiss of death in American politics.

 

Today an audio recording of Obama has surfaced where he presents his “spread the wealth around” socialist philosophy.  In this interview he describes the weakness of the Supreme Court and the imperfections of the US Constitution in not guarantying equality for all PEOPLES (a little communistic jargon never hurts).

 

Below please read the first minute of Senator Obama’s interview on KBEZ.FM

 

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 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.

 

“It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers”.  Excuse me senator, the founding fathers wrote the Constitution to guarantee me LIBERTY and FREEDOM, not to provide you with a tool to spread the wealth around.

 

“Break free from the Constitution”.  A perfect illustration of a Reconstructionists mind set.  Thank you Senator Obama. Thank you for helping me to demonstrate my point.  You will disregard the US Constitution to advance your socialist agenda.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

 

 

Wayne S. Richard
President/Founder
NCDAS

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