Obama Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered

From the blurb:

Obama Bombshell Audio Uncovered. He wants to Radically Reinterpret the Constitution to Redistribute Wealth!!

In a 2001 Chicago Public Radio Interview Obama is discussing the best way to bring about a Redistribution of Wealth!!!

This Video Exposes the radical underneath the rhetoric!!!

More coming.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Here is where I got the YouTube link from:

For any and all undecideds, here is a question for ya'.

Is this a risk you are willing to take?

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Here's the transcript:

Announcer: Good morning and welcome to Odyssey on WBEZ, Chicago, 91.5 FM. And we're joined by Barack Obama, who is Illinois State Senator from the 13th district and a senior lecuturer in the law school at the University of Chicago.

Obama: You know, 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 vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples so that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter and order. And as long as I could pay for it I'd be OK.

But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and more (cer...) basic issues of political and economic justice in the society.

And to that extent, as radical as I think 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 has been interpreted. And [the] Warren Court interpreted it 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 it doesn't say what the Federal government or the State government must do on your behalf.

And that hasn't shifted. And one of the, I think, tragedies the 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.

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Announcer: Let's talk with Karen. Good morning Karen. You're on Chicago public radio.

Karen: Hi. The gentleman made the point that the Warren Court wasn't terribly radical. My question is, with economic changes, my question... is it too late for that kind of reparative work economically, and is that the appropriate place for reparative economic work to take place?

Announcer: You mean the court?

Karen: The courts, or would it be legislation at this point?

Obama: You know, maybe I'm showing my bias here as a legislator as well as a law professor, but, you know, I'm not optimistic about bringing about major redistributed change through the courts. You know, the institution just isn't structured that way.

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Obama: You know you just [at?] look at very rare examples where, during the desegration era, the court was willing to, for example, order, you know, changes that cost money to local school district. And the court was very uncomfortable with it. It was hard to manage. It was hard to figure out.

You start getting into all sorts of separation of powers issues, you know, in terms of the court monitoring or engaging in a process that essentially is administrative and takes a lot of time.

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Obama: The court's just not very good at it and politically it's just very hard to legitimize opinions from the court in that regard. So I mean I think that, although you can craft theoretical justifications for it legally, you know I think you can... any three of us sitting here could come up with a rationale for brining about economic change through the courts.

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Joe the Plumber: ... plan's going to tax me more, isn't it?

Obama: It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance at success, too. I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.