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O's Redistribution of Wealth Audio Goes Viral
Politics Daily —
... No wonder he wants to appoint judges that legislate from the bench - as insurance in case a unified Democratic government under his control fails to meet his basic goal: taking money away from people who work for it and giving it to people who Barack Obama believes deserve it. Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change," McCain senior policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin said in a statement. And the Obama campaign is responding. Cass Sunstein: Obama's remarks came in a long interview ...
Redistribute-Gate: McCain Knocks Equality?
Politics Daily —
... Of course, the lie is halfway around the world already, but I'll do my best to break this down to its simplest element. Politico and ...
Eight Days of Stupid
Hit & Run —
... Eight days out it's not a good sign that the McCain campaign is still running on Drudge and deciding that a 2001 interview Obama gave about the Civil Rights movement and the Supreme Court is finally gonna take him out. It'll be a full week of stuff like that, along with claims (from pundits more than McCain) that the GOP is faring just as well, or better, than Gore and Kerry did in their final weeks. Don't buy that. RealClearPolitics ...
McCain Campaign Falsely Claims Obama Described Court's Failure to Redistribute Wealth As "Tragedy"
TPM Election Central —
... What's more, Obama legal adviser Cass Sunstein argues to Ben Smith that Obama was discussing "redistribution" in the context of a narrow legal discussion about civil rights, meaning he was discussing whether the courts should make the things that guarantee a social safety net -- education, welfare, and the like -- court-mandated rights. ...
Oba-Bullshit In Response on Wealth
Riehl World View —
What a freaking joke:
"What the critics are missing is that the term 'redistribution' didn’t man in the Constitutional context equalized wealth or anything like that. It meant some positive rights, most prominently the right to education, and also the right to a lawyer,"
Yeah, sure - let's see:
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 invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, ...
Obama Camp Pushes Back On Interpretation Of Radio Remarks
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... government must do on your behalf. And that hasn't shifted."
Obama spokesman Bill Burton had to shrug and point out the obvious: "In the interview, Obama went into extensive detail to explain why the courts should not get into that business of 'redistributing' wealth. Obama's point -- and what he called a tragedy -- was that legal victories in the Civil Rights led too many people to rely on the courts to change society for the better."
Obama legal adviser Cass Sunstein also defended Obama's radio remarks:
"What the critics are missing is ...
Obama Camp Pushes Back On Interpretation Of Radio Remarks
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... government must do on your behalf. And that hasn't shifted."
Obama spokesman Bill Burton had to shrug and point out the obvious: "In the interview, Obama went into extensive detail to explain why the courts should not get into that business of 'redistributing' wealth. Obama's point -- and what he called a tragedy -- was that legal victories in the Civil Rights led too many people to rely on the courts to change society for the better."
Obama legal adviser Cass Sunstein also defended Obama's radio remarks:
"What the critics are missing is ...
Furious Spining from the Left on Obama's Racially-Motivated Redistributive Change
Ace of Spades HQ —
Furious Spining from the Left on Obama's Racially-Motivated Redistributive Change Starting at (surprise, surprise) Ben Smith's Blog , which quotes Obama law adviser Cass Sunstein: A top legal advisor to Barack Obama, Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, said today that Obama's 2001 remarks on "redistributive change" -- pushed hard on the right today -- are being misinterpreted, and that he was actually articulating "conservative" legal principles, and that the then-law professor's "law-speak" was being misinterpreted. ... "What the critics are missing is that the term ...
The Curious Case of Doug Holtz-Eakin
Matthew Yglesias —
... When Doug Holtz-Eakin started out this campaign, he was definitely in the second category. Most people thought that he’d done a serious, professional job as head of the Congressional Budget Office and when he went to work for John McCain it was certainly everyone’s understanding that this would be his role. And he started out doing things like a long, substantive exchange with Grist about McCain’s climate plans.
But now he’s doing stuff like this that’s clearly the job of a flack, not a policy adviser: ...
Transparently Backwards: The "Common Alliance" of Smearmongerers Strikes Again
Daily Kos —
... And Cass Sunstein sets the record straight, pointing out that not only was Obama arguing the exact opposite of what the smear claims, but that "redistributive" doesn't mean what most people think it means in this narrow legal context: ...
Obama's Constitution
Power Line —
... Yesterday the Obama campaign called on University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein to tamp down the furor over Obama's advocacy of "redistributive change" and overcoming of the Constitution's "negative rights" in his 2001 radio interview. Politico's Ben Smith reliably channelled Professor Sunstein's spinning on behalf of Obama. ...
Poll: McCain’s Handlers Redistributing His Support
ScrappleFace —
... As a result, Sen. Obama’s handlers were able to deftly deflect attention from his socialist agenda by simply noting that Sen. McCain’s people mischaracterized the quote, and by portraying Republicans as too dull-witted to comprehend the ...
