McCain: Obama More Interested in ‘Controlling Wealth Than Creating It’

Elizabeth Holmes reports from Kettering, Ohio, on the presidential race. John McCain stepped up his spread-the-wealth attack on Barack Obama Monday, using comments the Democratic presidential candidate made in 2001. In 2001, when Obama was a member of the Illinois state senate, he gave an interview to Chicago Public Radio about the U.S. Supreme Court when it was led by Chief Justice Earl Warren in the 1950s and 1960s. Obama made the argument that the court wasn’t that radical and made the point that, during the Civil Rights movement, the Warren Court did not bring about “redistributive change.” “One of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was that the civil rights movement became so court-focused,” Obama said at that time. “I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and organizing activities on the ground that are able to bring about the coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change.” McCain read that quote verbatim during his ... (link)