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O's Redistribution of Wealth Audio Goes Viral
Politics Daily —
... Obama's remarks came in a long interview on civil rights and Constitutional law with two other law professors on the Chicago public radio station WBEZ in 2001. (The full transcript is here, and audio is ...
Brainster's Blog — ... was too court-focused. He was making a case against using courts to implement broad social goals - which is, last time I checked, the conservative position. Clearly, that was not what Obama was saying. The tragedy was that they didn't redistribute the wealth. It's true that Obama went on to say that using the courts in the future was liable to be counterproductive, but counterproductive to the goal of redistribution. Update III: Full transcript of the entire show here. I am reading it myself now and will append my thoughts. Update IV: Having ...
Obama advisor pushes back on 'redistribution'
Ben Smith's Blog —
... Obama's remarks came in a long interview on civil rights and Constitutional law with two other law professors on the Chicago public radio station WBEZ in 2001. (The full transcript is here, and audio is ...
Furious Spining from the Left on Obama's Racially-Motivated Redistributive Change
Ace of Spades HQ —
... to education, and also the right to a lawyer," Sunstein said. "What hes saying this is the irony of it hes basically taking the side of the conservatives then and now against the liberals." Sunstein is correct as to the practice of the Court now . The Court refused to equalize wealth and that hasn't been overturned yet. But Obama very clearly thinks that was a bad decision of the court because he goes on to praise the state supreme courts for taking up the issue (from the full transcript , which I cleaned up): One other area where the civil rights area has changed... ...
By “Yes” I Mean “No”
Matthew Yglesias —
... 80s we’ve seen an entire wing — judges who took the kind of positions that Justice Thurgood Marshall and others espoused — to the left of the current liberals essentially vanish. Someone like Justice Kennedy should be seen as representing a center-right viewpoint and the current liberals are a center-left viewpoint. The more robust liberal jurists of yesteryear believed in affirmative economic rights. Barack Obama was on Chicago public radio back in 2001 and said he disavowed those views: ...
That Tape From 2001
Political Animal —
... with Chicago Public Radio. Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work. So, unfortunately, I'm going to have to base my comments on Fox News' transcript , which is the most complete version I could find. It's plainly not a very good transcript -- it seems quite rushed (e.g., it's full of uncorrected spelling mistakes, abbreviations that it seems unlikely that the speakers actually used, etc.) I would normally listen to the audio to check its reliability, but as I said, it was not to be. So take what follows with the appropriate caveats. I honestly don't see what all the fuss is ...
That Tape From 2001
Obsidian Wings —
... with Chicago Public Radio. Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work. So, unfortunately, I'm going to have to base my comments on Fox News' transcript, which is the most complete version I could find. It's plainly not a very good transcript -- it seems quite rushed (e.g., it's full of uncorrected spelling mistakes, abbreviations that it seems unlikely that the speakers actually used, etc.) I would normally listen to the audio to check its reliability, but as I said, it was not to be. So take what follows with the appropriate caveats. ...
10/28: Red Scare
Blogometer —
... ' Matthew Yglesias : "The more robust liberal jurists of yesteryear believed in affirmative economic rights. Barack Obama was on Chicago public radio back in 2001 and said he disavowed those views . [...] This should all be clear enough, but a lot of the right-wing, led by the McCain campaign and the Drudge Report, have decided that it would be good to pretend that Obama said the opposite of what he said. So we get a ...
