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Gateway Pundit: Obama Camp Responds: His 2001 Interview on Wealth Redistribution Has Nothing to Do With His Economic Plan... "It's a Distraction"
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Politics on HuffingtonPost.com: Obama Camp Pushes Back On Interpretation Of Radio Remarks
Obama Camp Responds: His 2001 Interview on Wealth Redistribution Has Nothing to Do With His Economic Plan... "It's a Distraction"
Gateway Pundit —
It's a freakin distraction! Did you get that? The Obama Camp responded today to this Damning 2001 audio of Obama reciting Marxist jibberish: The Obama Camp offers a classic response to Obama's wealth redistribuion beliefs. It's just another "distraction" Jake Tapper and HotAir reported: “In this interview back in 2001, Obama was talking about the civil rights ...
Drudge's Latest
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Here's what it's based on: the "tragedy," in Obama's telling, is that the civil rights movement 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. The actual quote in full: ...
Obama Camp Pushes Back On Interpretation Of Radio Remarks
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... who thinks that Obama is poised to envelope his plumbing dreams in a web of William Ayers-conceived Stalinism, the McCain campaign is prepared to flog the issue of wealth redistribution to death, whilst hoping that nobody notices that AIG and every bank in the world is carting off tall stacks of cheddar by the wheelbarrowful. So, at the behest of some crazy Drudge pimpage, the McCain campaign is all a-flutter over a 2001 interview Obama gave on a Chicago public radio station. Here's Jake Tapper on the matter:
Today, aides say, Sen. John McCain, ...
Obama Camp Pushes Back On Interpretation Of Radio Remarks
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... who thinks that Obama is poised to envelope his plumbing dreams in a web of William Ayers-conceived Stalinism, the McCain campaign is prepared to flog the issue of wealth redistribution to death, whilst hoping that nobody notices that AIG and every bank in the world is carting off tall stacks of cheddar by the wheelbarrowful. So, at the behest of some crazy Drudge pimpage, the McCain campaign is all a-flutter over a 2001 interview Obama gave on a Chicago public radio station. Here's Jake Tapper on the matter:
Today, aides say, Sen. John McCain, ...
Obama: Let's Pursue Redistribution of Wealth Through Legislation Rather Than the Courts
Ace of Spades HQ —
Obama: Let's Pursue Reparations Through Legislation Rather Than the Courts Yup: A caller, "Karen," asked if it's " too late for that kind of reparative work economically? And she asked if that work should be done through the courts or through legislation. "Maybe Im showing my bias here as a legislator as well as a law professor," Obama said. "I'm not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. The institution just isnt structured that way." "Reparative work." Seems like the caller understood what Obama was saying, and Obama agreed. ...
Fear of a Anti-Capitalist Planet
Opinionator —
... philosophy accepted as dogma by many on the Left. Remember, this isn’t ancient history. Obama was sharing Socialism 101 with radio listeners just seven years ago. At the same time, he was sitting on the board of the Woods Fund, going to Trinity United Church, and a enjoying a robust professional relationship with Bill Ayers. Has he given all that up? We don’t know, because no one in the media has taken seriously Obama’s intellectual and professional development. Meanwhile, ABC’s Jake Tapper had a chat with Bill Burton of the Obama Campaign , who gave him this reponse:“In this ...
Radio daze
Political Animal —
... , expecting something fairly damaging, but found the whole thing rather anti-climactic. Obama was clearly wearing his professorial hat during the interview, talking about "redistributive change," but to hear the McCain/FNC/Drudge troika tell it, Obama was practically reading from the Communist Manifesto. Not only are Republicans wrong about this manufactured outrage, they actually have the story backwards . Obama in that interview said, "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 ...
Transparently Backwards: The "Common Alliance" of Smearmongerers Strikes Again
Daily Kos —
... the McCain campaign is again willing to join him in the nosedive down the rabbit hole. Today's false story of choice? Drudge claims this: 2001 OBAMA: TRAGEDY THAT 'REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH' NOT PURSUED BY SUPREME COURT The "headline" links to a YouTube video of a seven year old radio interview which, as was expected, reflects the complete opposite of the screeching headline. In the interview, Obama actually states the following: Obama said "one of the, I think, the ...
ABC News Calls Palin's Bullshit
Hoffmania! —
... Obama had in fact argued the opposite
in the 2001 interview, saying that the civil rights movement had become
too focused on making change through the judicial system, rather than
from the ground up through community organizations. ...
Gee. Where’s Michael Goldfarb?
The Democratic Daily —
... / The Daily Dish: Drudge’s Latest — Go read the original talk that Obama gave on NPR and see if it says anything even faintly similar to the truncated quotes about to be used by McCain. I mean: come on.
But let that pass. Let’s look at what happened to that crappy little video. By 3:05 PM the blogosphere’s front page was dominated by the story:
Natalie Gewargis / Political Punch: McCain to Attack Obama for Public Radio Comments from 2001 ...
Obama Backs Traditional Constitutional Gay Marriage
ScrappleFace —
... “As a Constitutional law scholar and a man who will soon appoint judges to the federal bench,” Sen. Obama said, “I have to admire those California Supreme Court justices who discovered the right to gay marriage in their constitution that had been cleverly hidden for 129 years. It makes you wonder what the U.S. Supreme Court would find if it would just stop seeing the Constitution as a charter of negative liberties and protections, and start using it to force the government to proactively do things for people…you know, to kind of ...
