voices.washingtonpost.com - 10/28/2008
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Douglas Holtz-Eakin. "In a previously uncovered interview from September 6, 2001, Barack Obama expressed his regret that the Supreme Court hadn't been more 'radical' and described as a 'tragedy' the Court's refusal to take up 'the issues of redistribution of wealth.' No wonder he wants to ...
online.wsj.com - 10/28/2008
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online.wsj.com —
One of the great unappreciated stories of the
past eight years is how thoroughly Senate Democrats thwarted...
efforts by President Bush to appoint judges to the lower federal courts. Consider the most important lower federal court in the country: the ...
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Obama's 'Redistribution' Constitution
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Enddirt
Swampland —
... Well, we've seen this sort of thing the entire campaign,occasionally from the Obama camp, relentlessly from McCain. Today's edition of scrofulous mudslinging--aided and abetted by a banner headline from the Drudge Scourge--involves a wildly inaccurate reading of remarks that Barack Obama made in a 2001 radio interview. ...
Redistributive Politics? - Grab The Smelling Salts!!
Winds of Change.NET —
... So a 2001 radio interview with Obama has the airwaves buzzing. It's even made the Post as a fact-check to the McCain campaign's charges that Obama had criticized the Warren court for not being radical enough. Listen to the whole thing yourself. ...
Poll: McCain’s Handlers Redistributing His Support
ScrappleFace —
... The Quinnipiac survey of ‘likely phone answerers’, shows that McCain’s handlers once again fumbled a major opportunity yesterday when they inaccurately characterized Sen. Obama’s 2001 remarks about the Supreme Court and redistribution of wealth. ...
Riding the “Redistribution” Railroad into the Gutter
The Moderate Voice —
... In a more attractive world I would have preferred to ignore the ongoing clatter and chatter regarding Sen. Barack Obama’s supposed predilections towards redistribution, Marxism and Socialism. Audio tapes and old clippings have been produced where Obama comments on the shortcomings of the Warren Court and invokes the dreaded “R word.” Unfortunately, Sen. McCain is still clucking about it out on the trail and his supporter in both the media ...
It’s Not Obama, It’s Memorex
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... 4.) The redistribution tape showing Obama not saying that redistribution is a good or desirable thing for courts to do, and therefore stealing Joe the Plumber’s baby. ...
Gee. Where’s Michael Goldfarb?
The Democratic Daily —
... was hired by the McCain campaign as “deputy director of communications” and in charge of the “McCain Report” the official mouthpiece blog — as opposed to the McCain blog, which is run by underlings and more bloggy — of the Campaign. But Goldfarb hasn’t been posting much the last week.
Which brings us almost full circle.
vi. the aftermath
The blog swarm finally made it into the mainstream press by way of The Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” ...
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