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Ben Smith's Blog — Seizing the moment, WBEZ posts the full audio of four Obama appearances on the station in 2001.

Obama Would Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Constitution?
ConfirmThem - — ... There's been quite a lot of discussion recently about Senator Obama's 2001 radio interview endorsing wealth redistribution, and implying that the Warren Court could have gone a lot farther than it did. Anyway, here are the full, unedited radio interviews from 2001. He's obviously a very smart fellow, but I think it would be best to keep him in the Senate. ...

Obama on WBEZ Odyssey
BatesLine — Chicago public radio station WBEZ has posted MP3s of then State Sen. Barack Obama's appearance on four editions of their public affairs program ...

Republican National Committee Attacks Obama For Opposing Slavery
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Barack Obama, September 6, 2001: A September 6, 2001 program called "Slavery and the Constitution" on WBEZ Chicago.... Obama explained that the "fundamental flaw" [in the Constitution] was [that] "Africans at the time were not considered as part of the polity that was of concern to the framers." In addition, the framers did not "see...it as a moral problem involving persons of moral worth." http://apps.wbez.org/blog/?p=639 ...

RNC: Constitution was right to count blacks as 3/5ths a man and allow slavery
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... Explains The Constitution's "Fundamental Flaw" Was Slavery. The out of context video the RNC links to contains audio from a September 6, 2001 program called "Slavery and the Constitution" on WBEZ Chicago. On the show, Obama explained that the "fundamental flaw" was "Africans at the time were not considered as part of the polity that was of concern to the framers." In addition, the framers did not "see...it as a moral problem involving persons of moral worth." [WBEZ Radio, accessed 5/21/09] ...

Does the RNC Support Slavery?
Matthew Yglesias — ... Barack Obama, September 6, 2001: A September 6, 2001 program called “Slavery and the Constitution” on WBEZ Chicago…. Obama explained that the “fundamental flaw” [in the Constitution] was [that] “Africans at the time were not considered as part of the polity that was of concern to the framers.” In addition, the framers did not “see…it as a moral problem involving persons of moral worth.” http://apps.wbez.org/blog/?p=639 ...