Obama On Redistributing Wealth
QandO — This is from an interview Barack Obama did in 2001 when he was an Illinois State Senator [HT: Vinnie]: Can someone tell me again how Obama’s not a socialist with a radical agenda? Because Obama sure seems to think he is.

I’m Smelling The Duck That I’m Looking At And Hearing Quack … Obama Bombshell Redistribution Of Wealth - Audio Uncovered
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — From each according to his ability, to each according to his need (or needs) - Karl Marx If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” - Joseph Goebbels ...

McCain ought to just buy up ad space and play this audio clip over and over
doubleplusundead — McCain ought to just buy up ad space and play this audio clip over and over Seriously, It's already up at Drudge as the headline. Posted by: doubleplusundead at 12:49 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment Post contains 25 words, total size 1 kb.

Socialist Obama Talks "Redistribution of Wealth" Back in 2001 (Video)
Gateway Pundit — It's a pattern-- Barack Obama talks about redistributing wealth on WBEZ.FM in 2001. Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered: Let it not be said that we were not warned.

Audio : Obama Discusses the Best Strategies for "Redistributing Wealth"
The Jawa Report — October 26, 2008 Audio : Obama Discusses the Best Strategies for "Redistributing Wealth" By Ragnar Danneskjold, Typical Bitter Gun-Clinger at October 26, 2008 08:50 PM | | l digg this

(Audio) Obama the Marxist
Stop The ACLU — For everyone that thought Obama was taken out of context, listen very closely. In a 2001 Chicago Public Radio Interview Obama is discussing the best way to bring about a Redistribution of Wealth.

Obama and the redistribution of wealth: analepsis
protein wisdom — Seems his Joe the Plumber “slip up” has a more friendly public precursor: The nut: 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, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for it I’d be o.k. But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it ...

Redistribution of wealth
Basil's Blog — This whole “spread the wealth around” thing from Barack Obama is not new. Naked Emperor News uncovered a gem of an audio interview from 2001. WBEZ-FM interviewed Illinois state senator Barack Obama, where he talked about redistribution of wealth (hat tip: Stop The ACLU: Scary stuff. ...

Bombshell? [Vinnie]
Ace of Spades HQ — Bombshell? [Vinnie] I'm posting this as is, with no commentary whatsoever, since I don't have the original audio. (okay, so I did have commentary. Sorry.) You're welcome. Oh, why the question mark? Because I don't have the original audio to compare with the video, and I kinda think Joe The Plumber already dropped this bomb on Obambi's head with greater effect. If this is accurate, however, it does shore up what Joe pointed out rather effectively. H/T TheBigOldDog

URGENT: Here's a wealth of Obama's "Redistribution of Wealth" philosophy -- from 2001!
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator — URGENT: Here's a wealth of Obama's "Redistribution of Wealth" philosophy -- from 2001! (H/T Maggie from PatDollard ) Posted by George Moneo at October 26, 2008 10:15 PM Comments Post a comment

Obama has wanted to "spread the wealth" for a long time
TigerHawk — Barack Obama's ambition to use the law to redistribute wealth pre-dated the impact of the "Bush" tax cuts. Check out these interview excerpts from 2001: This video has only been seen about 1650 times so far; I suspect that number is going to go up a lot in the next few days. 2 Comments: Why wasn't all of this (New Party, Ayers, et al) released, oh, like a month ago? By Blogger Dawnfire82 , at Sun Oct 26, 11:38:00 PM If you mean by the media, I would say that it still has not been. My friend Paul Budline's "Dig It" video, linked here many times, went up in early July, and he was hardly the original source on that story. If you mean by the ...

AUDIO PROOF FROM 2001 THAT OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — FROM STACLU: HERE'S EVEN MORE PROOF THAT OBAMA IS A STALWART REDISTRIBUTIONIST - IOW: SOCIALIST: WHAT IS MORE, OBAMA RAN ON THE NEW PARTY LINE IN 1996. THE NEW PARTY WAS A SOCIALIST PARTY. I KNOW ONE OF THE FINANCIAL BACKERS OF THIS PARTY AND HE ADMITS IT. OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST, NOT A CENTRIST. ELECTING HIM WITH PELOSI AND REID RUNNING THE WHITE HOUSE WILL MEAN THEY CAN EUROPEANIZE THE USA - RUIN US.VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

Obama in 2001: How to bring about “redistributive change”
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It Wasn't Just a Joe-the-Plumber-Inspired Whim
The Corner on National Review Online — Sunday, October 26, 2008 [image] It Wasn't Just a Joe-the-Plumber-Inspired Whim [ Kathryn Jean Lopez ] In a radio interview in 2001 , Barack Obama unequivocally embraced "redistribution" of wealth several times, and also laments that the Warren Court was not liberal enough. Tell me this isn't socialism. Obama is the most radical nominee for president in modern history. Enter at our own risk. 10/26 10:55 PM

Obama On Tape In 2001: Warren Court Not Radical Enough
Nice Deb — Says it’s a “tragedy” that the constitution wasn’t reinterpreted to force redistribution of wealth, and discusses the best way to bring about redistributive justice for blacks, (Joe the Plumbers all across this nation should perk up their ears): You know what’s a tragedy? That this guy has more ...

Obama's Own Words Come Back To Haunt Him, Big Palin - Hannity Rally Turnout
The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney — JOE WAS RIGHT! Newly-Discovered Audio Reveals Obama's Socialistic Plans BOY, was Joe the Plumber on to something! The now-infamous exchange between the Illinois senator and self-described regular guy from Ohio has led many to wonder whether Barack Obama really does intend to impose socialism in the United States once he is elected president. Now, in a bombshell audio interview just discovered buried in public radio's deepest vaults, solid evidence has emerged that Obama truly does believe in a socialistic redistribution of ...

Obama on the Warren Court:
The Volokh Conspiracy — The Drudge Report is blaring this audio of what appears to be an interview of Barack Obama in 2001 discussing the Warren Court and economic redistribution. Based on the accompanying video, it seems that the person who posted the audio is trying to paint Obama as a radical: The suggestion is that the audio shows Obama lamenting the Warren Court's lack of radicalism in the area of economic redistribution. Based on the audio posted, however, I find it hard to identify Obama's normative take. When Obama says that he's "not optimistic" about using the courts for major economic reform, and when he points out the practical and institutional problems of doing so, ...

Audio: Obama Talks Wealth Redistribution In 2001
Say Anything — Some unbelievable audio from an interview between a Chicago public radio host and then-state senator Barack Obama. Here him talk about the necessity for wealth redistribution.  Here him bemoan the fact that the Supreme Court has not yet gone beyond the limits Obama acknowledges were put in place by the founding fathers to solve problems with “economic injustice.” Here him complain about the Constitution protecting citizens from the state instead of putting the state in charge of providing for the citizens. Here him say that it’s a shame that the ...

Obama the Marxist ... in his own words
COUNTERCOLUMN: All Your Bias Are Belong to Us — This snake oil salesman just can't help it. He's all about the redistribution of wealth, not just as a means (there are certain redistributive effects to, say, Social Security that make sense) but as an administrative goal. Stop the ACLU has the audio, from a Barack Obama appearance on Chicago Public Radio in 2001, when he was a state Senator. 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, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and ...

Obama speaks of “redistributing wealth” on WEBZ radio in 2001
Flopping Aces — H/T to Baklava comment, via Michelle Malkin As I’ve said, that “spread the wealth” comment wasn’t an off the wall mistake…. this is an embedded political philosophy. ...

2001: An Obama Odyssey to the redistribution of wealth
BatesLine — Obama's answer to Joe Wurzelbacher was no fluke. He's been talking about "spread[ing] the wealth around" for a long time. On January 18, 2001, then Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama participated in a panel discussion on civil rights and constitutional law on Odyssey, a public affairs program on Chicago public radio station WBEZ. ...

Wealth Redistribution An Unattained Civil Right: Obama Interview
Wizbang — The audio of a Barack Obama radio interview below is stunning. Unfortunately, it will probably stun few. For once the word "Constitution" is mentioned, electoral eyes roll into the backs of voters' heads as memories of a boring high school history class in a hot, dusty classroom emerge in the place of contemplation of the founding principles of this nation. Speaking of the Warren Court its interpretation of the Constitution during the Civil Rights movement, Obama said, "It wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution. At least as it's been interpreted and more important ...

Obama: 'Redistribution of Wealth' is the Goal
Politics Daily — Filed under: Barack Obama, 2008 President, Viral Video, Supreme CourtThis shocking radio interview from WBEZ in 2001 will likely be the centerpiece of the final GOP push. Why? Just listen: Newsbusters has the transcript: ...But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. ...

2001 OBAMA: 'TRAGEDY' THAT 'REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH' NOT PURSUED
USS Neverdock — More proof Obama is a socialist. "Barack Obama on Chicago Public Radio WBEZ-FM, 2001: The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society... and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about ...

Bill Dyer: Obama's 2001 appearance on Chicago PBS program doesn't prove his commitment to redistribute America's wealth, but neither is it inconsistent with him favoring that plan
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — (Guest Post by Bill Dyer a/k/a Beldar ) Since Sen. Barack Obama's comment in a rope-line interview with Joe the Plumber about his belief that it's good to "spread the wealth," Republicans have been looking for more examples of such comments. At the beginning of the Bush-43 Administration, while John Ashcroft's nomination as Attorney General was a hot topic in the news and among legal pundits in particular, Gretchen Helfrich of Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ-FM, hosted an hour-long panel program on January 18, 2001, as part of her "Odyssey" series. This program was entitled The Court and Civil Rights . The participants were law professors Susan Bandes from ...

Why this campaign has more me more Republican
GayPatriot — While the American people may have soured on the Republican Party because of the “last eight years,” the last eight weeks have helped reaffirm my commitment to the GOP.  Perhaps, had the president adhered to his party’s principles and held the line on federal spending, people would better appreciate the philosophical differences between the parties. I wonder how much attention the American people are paying to the Democrats’ talk of increasing federal spending should Barack Obama win next week.  Or are they just focused on voting against the party in power? Do people know that Obama’a party favors a spending package (they ...

Obama’s Redistributionist Obsession
Pajamas Media — A 2001 Chicago radio appearance reveals the candidate's preoccupation with racially-tinged theories on income and wealth distribution. [image] Even by Internet speed standards, the reaction to the YouTube posting of a 2001 radio interview of Barack Obama on Chicago public radio station WBEZ has been fast and furious. Based on when the first comment appeared, the YouTube post went up at about 8 PM Eastern Time Sunday. Within hours, it was the lead item at Drudge. As of 6 AM ET on Monday, the original post had over 2,500 comments. Proving that the Internet never sleeps, dozens of center-right blogs were on it before sunrise. This is, and should be, a ...

You Have Too Much Money
Classical Values — You Have Too Much Money This bit by Obama advocating wealth redistribution was up at Drudge but I got my hint from Hill Buzz . One point that Hill Buzz makes is that the Obots have not shown up to contest this bit of history. Here is their theory: Whenever Obama is in trouble, these people clam up. The worse something is for Obama, the quieter his followers get. It's how we gauge the impact of something around here. Not a single Obamabot comment in the last hour. We'd usually have 30 of them in our spam filter in that hour. NOT A SINGLE ONE. Where did they all go? Back to the mothership for new instructions. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Will MSM Continue Ignoring Shocking Obama 'Redistribution of Wealth' Audio?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Once again we have another story that has been picked up in a big way by the Blogosphere but is currently being ignored by the mainstream media. And this time the story is huge.If you've seen the Drudge Report today you will know exactly which story this is; the audio of a 2001 interview on Chicago public radio station WBEZ FM  in which Barack Obama explicitly calls for the "redistribution of wealth." You won't find any information about this blockbuster story in the MSM just yet but as been very typical lately, you can be informed on this topic on the Blogosphere including this report from Steve Schippert of Wizbang who posted it at 1:20 ...

Spread it around—it would be good to see this particular “wealth” redistributed
neo-neocon — The following audio tape is from a 2001 Obama radio interview. It’s already featured on Drudge, so it’s sure to reach quite a few people. But I’m doing my little bit by posting it here. You can do yours by sending it to everyone you can think of who isn’t already one hundred percent in the Obama camp. When a person recreates him/herself by using a mask in order to hide the true self and hidden beliefs, the facade is not that easy to sustain over time. A person ordinarily slips up every now and then, especially when fatigued. Obama’s “spread the wealth” answer to Joe the Plumber’s question ...

RED ALERT: In 2001 Obama explicitly endorsed Marxism!
Doug Ross @ Journal — And I do mean Red Alert . I'm guessing the anointed one thought this particular audiotape had disappeared down the memory hole. Or he'd utterly forgotten about it, what with he and his wife busily planning their move into the White House. In 2001, in an interview with WBEZ public radio ...

Obama discussing the best way for "redistributive change"
Betsy's Page — Drudge links to this public radio interview that Obama did in 2001 where he muses about the best way to achieve redistributive change. He argues that the Warren Court wasn't truly radical because it didn't achieve economic justice and then goes on to say that the courts aren't the venue to doing this and speaks up for community organizing, legislative, and administrative action to achieve what he calls. He says that one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was that it became too focused on winning victories in the courts and lost sight of the political and community organizing activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual ...

Redistributive
Ben Smith's Blog — Expect the oppo drawers to open this week on both sides, as the last chance to get out negative information arrives, and the RNC and Drudge today are driving a 2001 interview with a Chicago public radio station in which Obama talks about the value of "redistribut[ing] the wealth." The context of the clip appears to be the civil rights movement, and the fairly commonplace observation (stated beginning with Martin Luther King) that the '60s movement succeeded in winning African-Americans legal rights but stopped short of lifting them out of poverty. But Obama's professorial talk about "redistributive change," while perhaps an ...

SHAME, CUBED
Eject Eject Eject — SHAME, CUBED The Drudge Report this morning led off with a link to audio of Barack Obama on WBEZ, A Chicago Public Radio station. And this time, candidate Obama was not eight years old when the bomb went off. Speaking at a call-in radio show in 2001, you can hear Senator Obama say things that should profoundly shock any American – or at least those who have not taken the time to dig deeply enough into this man’s beliefs and affiliations. Abandon all Hope, Ye Who Enter Here ...

Smells Like Socialist Spirit
Hot Air » Top Picks — Smells Like Socialist Spirit posted at 7:24 am on October 27, 2008 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | printer-friendly If people thought Joe the Plumber was some kind of stumble for Barack Obama, a rediscovered interview from 2001 should dispel any doubts about Barack Obama’s redistributionism.  Seven years ago, Obama told Chicago Public Radio that the Warren Court was too conservative and missed its opportunity to redistribute wealth on a much grander scale.  In fact, Obama wanted them to break the Constitution and reorder American society far outside of what the founders intended. Stop the ACLU has the transcript (via Michelle ): If ...

I'm pretty sure that's socialism
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — Let's not pretend it's anything but that. From NRO: In a radio interview in 2001, Barack Obama sounds like he unequivocally embraced "redistribution" of wealth several times, and, correct me if I am wrong, also laments that the Warren Court was not liberal enough. Tell me this isn't socialism. Obama is the most radical nominee for president in modern history.

Matt Lewis: In 2001, Obama Talked About "Redistribution of Wealth"
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Obama's Brave New Deal: A Preview
Power Line — Many readers have written to alert us to the audio of Senator Obama's reflections on, and advocacy of, the redistribution of wealth in this vintage 2001 audio clip. Underlying Obama's remarks is his hostility to the constitutional protections of property that I wrote about in "Obama, Joe the plumber, and the gosel of envy." Based on the audio, one must conclude that Obama has thought long about the subject and seriously about the project.

Video: Barack Obama Discusses His Strategies for Wealth Redistribution in 2001 Interview
(Obsolete Feed) — This is a fantastic find but don’t call it an October surprise. It’s October but the fact that Barack Obama is a radical socialist cloaked in meaningless “hope” and “change” marketing is not a surprise at all. Join the Blogs of War Readers Facebook group ...

Whittle: Shame, Cubed
Articles on National Review Online — T he Drudge Report this morning led off with a link to audio of Barack Obama on WBEZ, a Chicago public radio station. And this time, Barack Obama was not eight years old when the bomb went off. [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] Speaking on a call-in radio show in 2001, you can hear Senator Obama say things that should profoundly shock any American — or at least those who have not taken the time to dig deeply enough into this man s beliefs and affiliations. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here ...

Jan 20, 2009: Inauguration Day, Or Reparations Day?
Riehl World View — Everyone has picked up on this audio below - Obama on the redistribution of wealth circa 2001. Transcript STACLU. True, it's socialism, as many are pointing out. However, in this interview, Obama seems to be talking about a specific remedy as regards the Civil Rights movement of the late Sixties. That isn't just Socialism - it's fair to argue he includes reparations in that equation, as well. 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, so that now I would have ...

Obama: U.S. Should Also Spread the 'Choice' Around
ScrappleFace — (2008-10-27) — In addition to spreading the wealth around, Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama today said the unfair distribution of a woman’s right to choose is part of “the unfinished business of the civil rights movement.” “Although every woman has the theoretical right to choose an abortion, thanks to the Supreme Court’s discovery of the Constitution’s implied right to privacy,” said Sen. Obama, “only a small percentage of women actually get abortions. This means that the vast majority of women are missing out on the benefits of exercising their Constitutional right. It’s like ...

Predictions: McCain V. Obama
blonde sagacity — We are EIGHT days out from the election. Eight days...Geez. So, I'm incredibly worried. I wasn't worried in 2004...I knew Bush would beat Kerry. This time, not so much. We've already discussed the mentality of most Americans and how they swoon over the word 'change' without ever asking 'what change?'. That they believe commercials are the gospel and Obama the Messiah. That they will elect Barack because they 'hate Bush.' Gut feeling...who do you think is going to win? How close will it be? Can we trust the polls? Will the exit polls hurt Obama or McCain? Will ACORN 'voters' ruin the election? See what other Right Wing ...

Broadcast Morning Shows Bury Obama Redistributionist Radio Interview
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Imagine that a week before a presidential election, a radio interview surfaced in which the Republican candidate had called for, say, the abolition of Social Security.  Now imagine the broadcast networks' reaction to that nugget: "We interrupt regularly-scheduled programming for this Breaking News," followed by 24/7 coverage with talking heads pondering the devastating impact on America's seniors, the overall economy, the future of Western civilization, etc.  Nobel laureate Paul Krugman would be booked from now till election day, offering his pained pronouncements. But how do those same networks react ...

Ayers Yuks It Up With Obama Supporters in NYC
JammieWearingFool — Naturally, the unrepentant terrorist spent part of his time whining about the evil Fox News at this closed-door gathering of Barack Obama supporters in Manhattan. [image] The man the GOP loves to hate tiptoed out of hiding Sunday - if only to blast Fox News and the rest of the media for his predicament . William Ayers, the '60s radical who is one of John McCain's talking points in his criticism of Barack Obama, told a Manhattan panel discussion audience he was tired of being used as cannon fodder in America's political wars. Aww, the poor guy. Well, Professor , maybe this is the price you pay for trying to murder people and never saying you're sorry ...

Obama In 2001: "Redistribute The Wealth"
Snapped Shot — When he told Joe the Plumber that his plan was to "spread the wealth," Obama later tried to claim his words were misinterpreted. This is a 2001 interview on Chicago Public Radio with Barack Hussein Obama, proving he really wants to redistribute your wealth: ...

O's Redistribution of Wealth Audio Goes Viral
Politics Daily — Filed under: Barack Obama, 2008 President, Gaffes, Viral VideoAt this point there are 734k views on youtube; there will be a million by 5pm (if not sooner) Top Story on Memeorandum. The BIG LETTERS on Drudge. Rush Limbaugh is going pedal to the metal on it as I listen. The RNC is jumping on this. And so Is John McCain: "The American people continue to learn more about Barack Obama. Now we know that the slogans 'change you can believe in' and 'change we need' are code words for Barack Obama's ultimate goal: 'redistributive change.' In a ...

Obama Disappointed that Supreme Court Didn’t Redistribute Wealth
Boots and Sabers — Wow. He wants your money to give to a bunch of lazy people who happen to have more melanin than you do… Posted by on October 27, 2008 at 0717 hrs The guy’s power base was derived from a very liberal African American community segment in Chicago. How followed that line for 15-years. Once he saw a chance to go further nationally, he’s conveniently left all that behind and hoped no one notices. Posted by on October 27, 2008 at 0754 hrs It seems like he used a lot of fancy words and legal justifications in calling for reparations for “disposessed peoples.” What the hell else would you call “redistributive change” for “disposessed peoples” when referring to the Civil ...

Obama the radical
Southern Appeal — If this interview doesn't send chills down your spine, then I don't know what will.

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 movement – and the kind of work that has to be done on the ground to make sure that ...

Obama’s Socialist Chatter
Rathergate.com — Even the posterboy for media bias, Gunga Dan Rather, proclaims media bias toward Obama/Biden. We won’t see that about which Ace tells us : Bombshell: 2001 Interview Records Obama Pondering “Tragedy” of Civil Rights Movement Failing to Pursue “Redistribution of Wealth” and “Economic Justice” It’s a 2001 interview, four minutes, on Chicago’s WBEZ, with then-State Senator Barack Obama. From ACE, here is the transcript: 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, so that now I would have the right ...

Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned About Obama’s Socialist Economic Agenda
Ankle Biting Pundits — Via Drudge, we get the audio of this 2001 interview with a Chicago radio station in which Barack Obama says that it was a tragedy of the civil rights movement that the Court never got around to making the federal and state governments redistribute wealth. You can listen to his exact words HERE. I’m sure Pat will come along and embed the You Tube clip into our post, because I don’t know how to do it. Oh, and yes, the Phillies are 1 FRIGGIN GAME AWAY FROM BEING WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.

Barack Obama and The Redistribution of Wealth Media Shame
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — First, listen to Barack Obama in this 2001 audio. Obama was speaking as a law professor and Illinois State Senator about redistributive change through the courts. In a 2001 Chicago Public Radio Interview Obama is discussing the best way to bring about a ...

More evidence Obama the brand is not Obama the man: Now his birth certificate has been sealed by Hawaii's governor?
Hyscience — Even though the legitimacy of Sen. Barack Obama's birth certificate has been the focus of intense speculation - and even several lawsuits - Hawaii's Gov. Linda Lingle has placed Obama's birth certificate under seal, and instructed the state's Department of Health to make sure no one in the press obtains access to the original document under any circumstances. This brings up two questions, first and foremost: Is this the real reason Obama flew suddenly to Hawaii and what is Barack Obama trying to hide? These questions are made all the more pertinent in the context of who voters have been shown Barack Obama to be verses who Barack Obama really is, in other ...

‘Lost Tapes’ Of Obama Surface
PoliPundit.com — ‘Lost Tapes’ Of Obama Surface As we get closer to the election, Obama is shying away from the media as to avoid any major gaffes that could hurt him. He has not held a press conference in over a month!!. But one’s past is harder to escape from and when audio tapes start popping up all over the place that have Barack Obama talking about and supporting the Socialist agenda of the redistribution of wealth and reparations for slavery, and yet another tape criticizing the US Constitution, you can only HOPE that America wakes up in this final week until election day. Let’s go to the audio tapes. Tape #1: Use the US Constitution to Redistribute the Wealth: Tape #2: OBAMA: ...

OBAMA: THE NEW LEFT TRIUMPHANT
Right Wing Nut House — Stanley Kurtz of NRO gets it. I have been waiting for someone in the media to lay Obama low with the correct interpretation of the candidate’s radical associations. Many on the right have made the mistake of pegging Obama himself as a wild eyed radical determined to create some kind of Marxist state out of America. I believe this wildly overstates the case. The danger of Obama is in his “soft” radicalism – a squishy new leftism where he doesn’t have the political courage to annunciate his true agenda while hiding behind banal platitudes and sugary rhetoric. Kurtz, in going after ...

Daily Kos Desperately Spinning Obama 'Redistribution of Wealth' Audio
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — The Kossacks at the Daily Kos are hitting the panic button over the Obama "redistribution of wealth" audio which has become the hottest political topic on the Web, including the Drudge Report. As NewsBusters Mark Finkelstein has noted, most of the MSM morning TV shows, with the exception of Fox & Friends and Morning Joe,  are still continuing to bury this story which your humble correspondent posted earlier today. However, this burial by the MSM is giving little comfort to the denizens of the Daily Kos. Right now they are trying to desperately spin away this story with excuses ...

Carol Platt Liebau: Obama's "Redistributive Change"
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — What's shocking isn't that Obama bemoaned the Supreme Court's unwillingness to impose "redistributive change" -- or even the fact that his statement that the Warren Court really wasn't terribly activist at all (although it's a chilling insight into his judicial philosophy and what we might expect in terms of nominees). After all, after one learns that Obama Obama blamed 9/11 on a "failure of empathy," well, what do you expect? What is shocking is that all this redistribution talk is coming to light only now -- having been conveniently ignored by the press these many months. How is it that "journalists" found time to contact Bridget McCain's friends ...

The Fundamental Question:
Little Miss Attila — The Fundamental Question: "Did the God of Socialism fail, or not?" That is what this election is about. Did the vampire of redistribution that had me enthralled during my college years ever lose its appeal? Because it still wants blood, even now.

Wealth Redistribution, Tax Brackets and the Presidential Endgame
Swampland — The McCain Campaign uncovers a novel bit of oppo today: Heavily-edited 2001 audio tape of Obama on a Chicago radio station discussing the failure of the Civil Rights Movement to redistribute wealth through the courts. Obama says it was a tragedy that civil rights activists were not able to put together "coalitions of power through which you bring about ...

“Redistributive Change” That You Can Believe In
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler — The very few Obamamedia outlets that have even bothered to quote the ObaMarx’s reply about “spreading the wealth around” when Joe the Plumber asked him if he was going to raise his taxes, most of them have vigorously thrown it down the memory hole and piled dirt upon it while “investigating” Joe’s past parking tickets and overdue library books, always made sure to give an impression that it was just those Evil Rethuglicans missing the context and focusing instead on mere words that weren’t necessarily what the Obamessiah meant.“OK, so maybe what he said sounded like redistributing wealth but, you know, what he actually meant was that… Was that… Oh, look! Joe ...

Obama in 2001 Talked About 'Redistributive Change'
News — Obama in 2001 Talked About 'Redistributive Change' Barack Obama's remarks in 2001 about the failure of the civil rights movement to produce "redistributive change" has conservative bloggers in a tizzy on Monday. In an interview on Chicago public radio in which Obama, then a state senator, assessed the civil rights movement's judicial strategy, Obama said that the Supreme Court hadn't explored wealth redistribution. He added that: "…one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ...

Ever wonder what Barack Obama sounds like naked?
Pundit Review — Ever wonder what Barack Obama sounds like naked? A 2001 radio interview from Chicago has been unearthed. In it, Barack Obama, Mr. Middle Class Tax Cut, calls the lack of “redistributive change” a “tragedy”. This may be the best example yet of the real Barack Obama, because you can listen for yourself. This is a guy who is not running for the presidency. A guy not trying to convince anyone he is a moderate. This is simply Barack being Barack . A partial transcript, 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 ...

Redistributive change you can believe in.
Rachel Lucas — Remember when half my commenters were yelling at me, saying that McCain is just as socialist/liberal as Obama, and that it’d be better for Obama to be elected because if things are going to go to shit, better to have it happen under a Democrat, and we can just regroup in 4 years and try again? You guys still thinking that? Obama in 2001 on Chicago Public Radio: Best bit transcribed, via Stop the ACLU (via Hot Air): 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 ...

Oh, What the Heck!
No Runny Eggs — OK, everyone else will have this up on their site and I’m sure it will spin through chain emails.  While I would normally pass on this due to it being “everywhere,” this one just can’t go without comment.  In fact, I’m even going to use my new flashy light thingy to draw more attention! In case you’ve just returned from several years on a deserted island, next Tuesday is election day.  We can go back and forth between the policy differences between the two candidates but that is wasted time at this point.  If you are at all ambivalent on who to vote for or if you have decided to vote for Barack Obama yet ...

Where Obama's Heading: "The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth."
AMERICAN DIGEST — Reparations by proxy are only the beginning. Obama: "To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your ...

Good grief!
Maggie's Farm — This is a bombshell - or should be. Here's one of the missing Obama videos. I know it's racist to call the guy a Commie, but he is. We still wait for the Khalidi video...

Barack Obama on the Constitution and Redistribution of Wealth
The New Editor — From a 2001 interview with Chicago public radio station WBEZ...

Brainster's Blog — Barack Obommunist Our socialist (oops, sorry, that's a racist code word) President-in-Waiting from 2001. More discussion from Mrs M. Update: Also read Bill Whittle. If this had been Sarah Palin giving the interview, you know the freaking news media would have been all over the story. Update II: Unexcitable Andrew: 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 ...

Obama In His Own Words
A Blog For All — The whole notion that Sen. Barack Obama was not intent upon engaging in socialism when he encountered Joe the Plumber is laughable. He's been preaching this kind of claptrap for years, and Naked Emperor News uncovered audio (also directly from the public radio station itself ) of him suggesting that the courts should have engaged in redistribution of wealth just as surely as they moved forward with civil rights. A full transcript of Obama's policy pronouncements from a 2001 Chicago Public Radio appearance is here . Obama is okay with spreading the wealth by any means necessary . If you look at the victories and failures of the ...

What is wrong with Obama's approach to "redistributive change"
Betsy's Page — Bill Whittle breaks it down for those who don't immediately recoil when hearing the man favored to be the next president of the United States talk about "redistributive change" for economic justice. The entire purpose of the Constitution was to limit government. That limitation of powers is what has unlocked in America the vast human potential available in any population. Barack Obama sees that limiting of government not as a lynchpin but rather as a fatal flaw: “…One of the, I think, the tragedies of the Civil Rights movement was because the Civil Rights movement became so court-focused, uh, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the ...

Bombshell 2001 Interview Records Obama Pondering 'Tragedy' of Civil Rights Movement Failing to Pursue 'Redistribution of Wealth' and 'Economic Justice'
Hyscience — Big hat tip to Vinnie over at Ace for the title, and although I included this in a previous post today it's important enough to give it a post of its own here. Obama the brand may be claiming he isn't about Marxism and wealth redistribution but Obama the man is indeed all about Marxism and wealth redistribution: > As Jim Geraghty points out at NRO, "Obama's calm baritone can make anything sound reasonable, even a frustrated lament that "the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth" and disappointment that "as radical ...

"Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered."
Althouse — Someone emailed me the link to this video, which went up on YouTube yesterday and already has over 400,000 views: If this alarmed you, chances are, you are not a law professor. Let me tell you that, in this radio interview from 2001, Obama is making the most conventional observation about the limits of constitutional law litigation: The courts will recognize rights to formal equality, but they hesitate to enforce those rights with remedies become too expensive or require too much judicial supervision and they resist identifying rights to economic equality. Such matters are better handled by ...

Obama October Surprises Himself
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator — Obama October Surprises Himself We've all become acquainted with the political lingo these days. "Swift boating" means telling the truth about a Democrat. An "October Surprise" is telling the truth right about a Democrat, right before the election. Obama and his supporters have been wary of "Swift Boats" and "October Surprises" throughout this election, they have been "girding their loins" for it. But as they tried to silence critics and avoid the tough questions, they forgot to muzzle one person: Barack Hussein Obama. Obama happened upon ...

Are We There Yet?
small dead animals — Are We There Yet? At what point can we simply use the "M" word without being blamed for polemics and just call it an established fact ... ... more @ Celestial Junk on finding your inner Marxist. Posted by Cjunk at October 27, 2008 10:37 AM

Obama’s “Redistribution of Wealth” Quote In Context
The Moderate Voice — John McCain is apparently set on continuing his current socialism-themed attack on Obama based on “newly-discovered” comments Obama made in 2001 while discussing the civil rights movement on NPR. The line of attack can basically be summed up with the headline Drudge is running right now: “2001 Obama: Tragedy That ‘Redistribution of Wealth’ Not Pursued By Supreme Court.” Now, there’s taking quotes out of context, and there’s just making stuff up, and this one falls into the latter category. Read the full quote and listen to the audio below (do your best to ignore the dramatic commentary in the YouTube video). If ...

McCain Campaign Falsely Claims Obama Described Court's Failure to Redistribute Wealth As "Tragedy"
TPM Election Central — The McCain campaign's efforts to portray Barack Obama as a closet socialist took a turn into the burlesque today, with the McCain camp falsely claiming that in a seven year old interview, Obama said that it was a "tragedy" that the Supreme Court hadn't redistributed wealth away from hard-working Americans. The Obama interview in question is being pushed relentlessly today by the wingnuts, who are circulating this audio of it. The McCain campaign just blasted out a quote from senior economics adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin hammering Obama. In the interview, Holtz-Eakin claimed, "Obama expressed his regret that the Supreme Court hadn't been more ...

Press coverage negative on McCain?
The Anchoress — Well, slap my ass and call me Sally; a study finds the press coverage of John McCain has been substantially more negative than of Obama. Well. Duh. How can there be negative press on Obama, when the press won’t report on Obama anything that does not suit their narrative? Look at this graph: The media coverage of the race for president has not so much cast Barack Obama in a favorable light as it has portrayed John McCain in a substantially negative one, according to a new study of the media since the two national political conventions ended. Press ...

Obama Wants "Major Redistributive Change"
RedState: Conservative News and Community — How is That Not Socialist? Conservative blogs are abuzz over an interview Barack Obama did in 2001 on the subject of Earl Warren's Supreme Court and the public school financing system. It provides further ammunition for those who argue that Barack Obama is outside the mainstream on issues of wealth distribution. A partial transcript: MODERATOR: Good morning and welcome to Odyssey on WBEZ Chicago 91.5 FM and we're joined by Barack Obama who is Illinois State Senator from the 13th district and senior lecturer in the law school at the University of Chicago. OBAMA: If you look at ...

No wonder they hate Joe the Plumber
Classical Values — No wonder they hate Joe the Plumber Speaking of outrages, don't miss the recording of an on air PBS interview from 2001 in which Barack Obama discusses how best to implement the redistribution of wealth. ( M. Simon linked it earlier, and I don't want to be duplicative, so just scroll down to his post to listen.) Obama says that the courts might not be the best place, but he makes it clear that he's all for the concept. Via Newsbusters , a link to the transcript of the video (which I've posted below, for those who want to read it). Looks like the unlicensed plumber was onto something. TRANSCRIPT: MODERATOR: Good morning and ...

Bill Whittle Rips Media's Epic 'Fail' on Obama's 2001 WBEZ Interview
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — At National Review Online today, Bill Whittle does a tremendous job dissecting the content of Barack Obama's 2001 interview at Chicago public radio station WBEZ. But he also has some insight into the source of the audio and some choice words for a media elite that has spent nearly two years failing to do even the most basic digging into the Democratic candidate's background and associations. Here's what Whittle reveals, and most of his related comments: I happen to know the person who found this audio. It is an individual person, with no more resources than a desire to know everything that he or she can about ...

Pretty thin gruel
The Reality-Based Community — [image] Pretty thin gruel Is this really the best the wingers and their tame press and their adopted candidate* can do in the way of an Obama scandal? Obama would like people who aren't rich to get a fairer shake than they now get. He thinks those changes need to be made by the voters through their elected representatives, not through the courts. He thinks it was a tragedy that the civil rights movement, having accomplished important expansions of formal rights through the courts, then over-relied on the courts, rather than the voters, in moving on to make substantive changes. Any questions? (Audio below.) * Here's Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the ...

Obama on "Redistributive Change"
Tammy Bruce — This is all over the net, now making it's way into talk radio and has now been addressed by McCain. Unearthed this weekend, here is the September 6, 2001 Chicago Public Radio Interview where Barack Obama laments the "tragedy" of how the civil rights movement relied too much on the courts to get what they wanted, because "redistributive change", i.e. "spreading the wealth" could only be accomplished through political efforts and "community organizing." First, here's the complete audio: Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has an excellent analysis, and here is the McCain response: ...

'01 Obama Interview Covers 'Redistribution of Wealth'
Drudge Retort — In a 2001 interview with a Chicago public radio station, Barack Obama discussed the Supreme Court's lack of a role in the "redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society." Law professor David Bernstein writes, "there is no doubt from the interview that he supports 'redistributive change,' a phrase he uses at approximately the 41.20 mark in a context that makes it clear that he is endorsing the redistribution of wealth by the government through the political process. What I don't understand is why this is surprising, or interesting enough to be headlining Drudge."

Obama in 2001: The Constitution Has A “fundamental flaw” Because It Did Not Demand the Redistribution of Wealth and It is A “Tragedy” that the Courts Did Not Change That
The Sundries Shack — [image] It’s always that pesky Constitution that gets in the way of the socialist ideal, isn’t it? Barack Obama gave a radio interview in 2001 , when he wasn’t running for President and could let his freak flag fly safe in the cocoon of corrupt leftist Chicago politics, and boy did he unfurl a big flag. 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, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for it I’d be o.k. But, ...

Romney: McCain Has to Sell the Economic Message
News — Romney: McCain Has to Sell the Economic Message John McCain has to sell his economic message down the stretch in the 2008 campaign, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) said this morning, weighing in on conservative fears that Barack Obama would "spread the wealth" if elected president. "[Obama is] simply wrong when it comes to his economic plan, and that's wrong for Americans, and that's why I think in the final analysis the economic message is what John Mccain has to sell to remind people that you don't just want a smooth talker in the White House, you want someone who's tested and proven and can get things running again," Romney said on MSNBC's ...

Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered
Theo Spark — H/T Mark Scott

Obama on Using the Supreme Court to Impose Socialism
Moonbattery — When The One rambles about Change, those who haven't drunk the Kool-Aid wonder, What kind of change? The answer: Redistributive Change, the kind that strangles economic growth in its crib by letting everyone know that any wealth they create will be confiscated by the government on behalf those who don't deserve it. Here's Obama proclaiming that the radical Warren Court wasn't radical enough, because it didn't use the power of the Supreme Court to advance the civil rights movement by redistributing wealth — i.e., by imposing race-based socialism. ...

Obama on Redistributing Wealth
Patterico's Pontifications — [Guest post by DRJ] From Hot Air: “Seven years ago, Obama told Chicago Public Radio that the Warren Court was too conservative and missed its opportunity to redistribute wealth on a much grander scale.” Here’s the audio at YouTube: Obama’s opinion comes across loud and clear to me: Since the Supreme Court can’t or won’t redistribute income, that leaves Congress or the President. What Senator Obama couldn’t accomplish, President Obama will. – DRJ

Radio daze
Political Animal — RADIO DAZE.... In 2001, then-State Sen. Barack Obama participated in a radio discussion on civil rights, the judiciary, and economics. The McCain campaign, Fox News, and Drudge have been apoplectic today, insisting that Obama's on-air comments are shocking and scandalous. I checked it out ...

From Each According to His Ability
Neptunus Lex — To each according to his need.* Vote Stealth 2008! Update: I mean, what’s the alternative? Trust market forces to sort things out? The pace of new home sales in the US rose by 2.7 per cent last month – a much better figure than forecast by economists - as low prices fostered a flurry of activity in the stricken US housing market amid an intensifying financial crisis. New home sales rose to an annualised rate of 464,000 units after dropping by a steep 12.3 per cent in August, the US commerce department said on Monday. The inventory ...

If You Can Stand It
sassafrassin.com — To those of us who’ve been beating the “He’s a STEENKIN’ SOCIALIST!” drum for a while now, this doesn’t comes as anything new. But, for those of you sitting on the fence, here’re two audio files from circa 2001, where Obama holds forth on Redistribution of Wealth and the Constitution as a ‘Flawed Document’ from its inception to today. I present this here as a “service” to those of you who’re lingering on the fence, as yet undecideds who are still contemplating voting for this “Brave New President.” If you listen, you hear the ringing oratory of Marx, salted with Alinsky, and a pinch ...

Burton vs. Kelly
Michael Calderone's Blog — With the McCain campaign, conservative bloggers and talk radio hosts aggressively pushing a line that Obama's policies are "socialist," Obama spokesperson Bill Burton fired back in a  response to the 7-year-old radio interview that's been given banner treatment all day by Matt Drudge. In a statement, Burton took a shot at Fox News, a campaign tactic that's become more common in the final weeks of the campaign, but wasn't throughout most of the cycle. "This is a fake news controversy drummed up by the all too common alliance of Fox News, the Drudge Report and John McCain, who apparently decided to close ...

Figures... Obama Compares US to Nazi Germany (Audio)
Gateway Pundit — GREAT-- MESSIAH COMPARES AMERICA TO NAZI GERMANY Overlooked in the audio tape yesterday from Barack Obama's interview on "redistributing the wealth" on WBEZ.FM in 2001 was The One comparing the US to Nazi Germany. Charles Johnson caught this from the same video: "...just to take a, sort of a realist perspective...there’s a lot of change going on outside of the Court, um, that, that judges essentially have to take judicial notice of. I mean you’ve got World War II, you’ve got uh, uh, uh, the doctrines of Nazism, that, that we are fighting against, that ...

Wealth Redistribution
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — Barack Obama is for it. See this : Obviously, this seriously damages any and all incentives to work hard and to be successful. Under an Obama economic plan, one could work less and then wait for wealth redistribution to make the difference between a lower and an augmented standard of living. There is no way to overemphasize just how radical a transformation this would be in our national political and economic structure. The unfairness of this arrangement would be staggering. Equally staggering is the fact that Obama discusses it in so dispassionate a fashion in the YouTube clip above. For him, the debate isn't over whether we should rob Peter to pay Paul, ...

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. ...and the rightblogs are all aflutter. Here's my friend Bill Whittle, at NRO (hey, cool that he has a gig there, btw...): If the second highlighted phrase had been there without the first, Obama’s defenders would have bent over backwards trying to spin the meaning of "political and ...

Wealth Redistribution
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Barack Obama is for it. See this: Obviously, this seriously damages any and all incentives to work hard and to be successful. Under an Obama economic plan, one could work less and then wait for wealth redistribution to make the difference between a lower and an augmented standard of living. There is no way to overemphasize just how radical a transformation this would be in our national political and economic structure. The unfairness of this arrangement would be staggering. Equally staggering is the fact that Obama discusses it in so dispassionate a fashion in the YouTube clip above. ...

BREAKING: Obama Card Catalogue Carrying Commiunist
Whiskey Fire — BREAKING: MUST CREDIT THERS BARACK OBAMA INVOLVED IN MARXIST WEALTH-SPREADING PLOT AS STATE SENATOR NOT TOO EARLY TO IMPEACH, EXPERTS SAY The shocking revelation that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama declared in a seven-year-old National Public Radio interview that he ...

THE REAL OBAMA
Dr. Sanity — I'm coming a little late to this party, but this definitely needs to be spread around (h/t Neoneocon): This is the real Obama, the "One" he doesn't want us to know about. Now you know why. And he wasn't 8 years old when he said this; nor was he 8 years old when he repeated the essential point to Joe the Plumber.

Drudge: Obama Wants to Use the Supreme Court for Redistribution
Open Left - Front Page — With rancor over the Constitution and the future of the Supreme Court already at dangerously high levels, it's important to at least fairly characterize the candidates' positions when it comes to the Court.  Today the Drudge Report failed this test spectacularly, with its blaring headline: ...

NPR Ignores Obama's 2001 Interview with Chicago Public Radio
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Although the audio that recently emerged of Sen. Barack Obama discussing "redistributive change" came from an interview he did with Chicago Public Radio, National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" on Monday as well as "Morning Edition" on Tuesday completely ignored the audiotape of Obama's 2001 interview. During his campaign stop in Dayton, Ohio, on Monday, Sen. John McCain specifically addressed the recently surfaced audio and even quoted Obama as saying, "One of the tragedies of the Civil Rights movement was because the Civil Rights movement became so court-focused I ...

Since When Is McCain Against the Redistribution of Wealth?
Hit & Run — The McCain campaign claims that in a 2001 interview with a Chicago public radio station, 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.'" Not quite. Here is what Obama, at the time a state legislator and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, actually said (emphasis added): 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 vest formal rights in previously dispossessed ...

$250K … $200K … $150K … O`Biden’s Trickle-Down Tax Plan Trilogy With Prequel - Videos
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — At THIS rate they’ll make it to $45K within the next six months … Let’s review, shall we? Putting the $106 million that Obama spent in the first 15 days of October in perspective… OBAMA’S OCT 1-15 SPENDING = $105,599,963.76 That’s more than $293,000 an hour. It’s also 49% of EVERYTHING McCain has spent the entire time he has been running for president ($216,769,840). The Prequel

Gee. Where’s Michael Goldfarb?
The Democratic Daily — Kristol: Nicht! i. prologue, incest among the NeoCons I’ve told you at length about the Rovian Campaign of McCain’s deputy director of communications, Weekly Standard blog writer and editor Michael Goldfarb (on a ‘leave of absence’). And I’ve told you about how William Kristol is so tangled up in the McCain campaign, Fox News and the selection of Sarah Palin that his (less than one year old) column in the New York Times OUGHT to have that small-type slug “Paid Political Advertisement.” Tom Phillips, Rupert ...

Relative Poverty
baldilocks — Before today, I’ve never posted anything about Barack Obama’s half-brother, George Onyango Obama, a resident of one of Nairobi's worst slums . The reason: unlike many, I don’t think that it is automatically the senator’s responsibility to support those whom he has taken no part in creating. And even if it is discovered that there was some agreement between the two brothers, it would be one made between individual adult members of a family and, therefore, none of my business. In contrast, I took on the responsibility of supporting Obama-Kogelo School with the assistance of many others, because a public promise was made to many children. Some of these ...

Change: Capitalism to Marxism; Adam Smith to Barack Obama
Reasoned Audacity — The easiest tactic to sell anything is to find Pain. Maximize it, magnify it, monetize it. We Are The Change, election night 1988 There is some economic Pain in the American people. Obama promises to heal this nation and heal this pain with Change. Change from Capitalism to Marxism. To "spread the wealth around." As Wes Pruden writes in A game-changer by Obama, we are at the close of the biggest sales and marketing pitch in history. Pruden reports, To redistribute wealth, you first have to confiscate it from those who earned it with hard work, ...

From Meccania to Atlantis - Part 2: From the Clenched Fist to the Raised Middle Finger
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe — The sentry’s challenge Qui vive is the French sentry’s challenge, the equivalent of "Who goes there?" Except, the literal meaning of qui vive conveys the timeless common sense of the French peasant who puts his trust only in blood ties, deeds to land, and in gold coins in a jar under the plum tree. For qui vive means “Who moves there?” but also "Who lives?" He lives who is on the alert. But we have been dedicated somnambulists for 40 years now. The American comedienne and blogger, Julia Gorin, described two years ago how bus riders in Richmond, Virginia ...

Confessions of an Open Minded Conservative
RedState: Conservative News and Community — "The One" turned out to be just another one Promoted from the diaries by Erick. While I am a Republican and will proudly test my Republican bonafides against anyone's, I am, first and foremost, an American. I am also a fan of America and a student of its history and foundational philosophies. So, although I have voted overwhelmingly in my life for Republicans (including in every presidential election in which I could vote), I am willing to cross party lines and vote for a candidate that I feel is better for America. Notwithstanding the fact that six years in the rough-and-tumble world of Texas politics and twenty years of ...

11/3: Caught On Tape
Blogometer — November 03, 2008 11/3: Caught On Tape Lately, the conservative blogosphere has been obsessed with various audio and video tapes that they believe to be damaging to Barack Obama 's presidential prospects. Conservative bloggers spent the early part of last week buzzing ...

Investigating Obama: Career Path Toward a Neo-Marxist Presidency
MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy — Investigating Obama: Career Path Toward a Neo-Marxist Presidency [This piece is reproduced in its entirety with permission from the author, Arlen Williams .  He will allow all to republish with proper credit/linkage given.] Investigating Obama: Career Path Toward a Neo-Marxist Presidency A narrative of facts many have not heard, documented with Web links Barack Obama, by his own book, plus the testimony of relatives and friends, was raised in quite a family. While in high school, his mother developed an affinity with a teacher who led readings from Marx. She became an atheist or agnostic and met Barack Obama ...

Barack Obama is no John Galt, rather, the antithesis thereof
Hyscience — This piece, written by Angry White Dude back on 27 October of this year, should be read by everyone that voted in election 08 (and then passed around again to everyone they know). I'm posting it here in it's entirety to make sure that even those that like to just skim through posts can see it all and get to the all important video. However, please take the time to read all of it. WHO IS JOHN GALT? IT SURE AIN'T BARACK OBAMA! By Angry White Dude Will Atlas Shrug? One of Angry White Dude's favorite books is Atlas Shrugged, written by Ayn Rand.  While written over 50 years ago, the ...

What the Clinton Appointment Means
Antiwar.com Original — T he American people are sick and tired of the Bush era, and they are counting the days until Barack Obama is inaugurated. The reasons for this are manifold, of course, but the one that concerns us especially here at Antiwar.com is the vital question of war and peace . American foreign policy had become so relentlessly aggressive, and with such disastrous results , that John McCain's alleged national security credentials were moot. Even if the economy hadn't tanked so spectacularly at a crucial point in the election season, I contend that Obama would've won in a landslide anyway. And it surely didn't help when the author of our ...

Who says conservative bloggers don’t do reporting?
Michelle Malkin — Before we fully launch into the action-packed first week of 2009, I want to provide you with a year-end wrap-up of original blog reporting on this site and across the conservative blogosphere. Why? Well, over the weekend, a few bloggers on both the left and right perpetuated an ill-informed and self-serving myth that demands debunking. The myth is that conservative bloggers don’t do reporting. Michael Goldfarb ...

Obama Speaks Of “Imperfect” Constitution
Nice Deb — Saw this at Pat Dollard’s: This is from his speech in Philadelphia this morning. Where better to announce the founding of a new nation shaped in his image? And where else, more mocking, more audacious? And where else, better to fool people, as a patriot? Did you catch ...

American Leningrad
The Anchoress — You’ll want to read neo-neocon today. She’s got quotes by Lenin and thoughts on Dostoevsky and yes, it’s all relevant, relevant, relevant. The quotes from Lenin are chilling and you will be able to relate all of them to what is happening in America, today, even though President Obama insists it’s not, and that he’s no socialist, nope, not him! Bush was the socialist, yep, yep, yep. Bush made his mistakes, and the damn bailout in October was a biggie, but he was no deliberate socialist. A sampling of Neo: A lie told often enough becomes the truth. ...

CT Gov’t wants to control the Church - UPDATED
The Anchoress — “Freedom of Worship” from The Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell I frankly thought we had a few more years before we started seeing this, but here we go. As I wrote in the comments section here: I have no doubt that there will be a “schism” within the next few decades that will find an “American Catholic Church” formed (Cardinal Mahoney will probably be its titular head) which will look quite a lot like the Church of England or the Anglican church - rites, rituals, “sacraments” etc, and it will even have the ...

OBAMA SAYS THE CONSTITUTION ALLOWS FOR REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH
Dr. Sanity — Sadly, this is the man that we have elected President of the United States. The man is, to put it bluntly, a Marxist. He plans to redistribute the wealth via legislation because it is an "unattained civil right" for those who do not have wealth to take it from those who create it. Don't believe me? From Wizbang--watch it all: And here is Michael Ledeen on the interview above: Obama told us he was going to use Congress to redistribute the wealth — explicitly. And he thinks it's in the Constitution. My friend Steve Schippert tried to call attention to this interview about ...

Some Monday afternoon links
Maggie's Farm — Goodbye, Columbus. Death of a holiday at Brown. Getting those darn pesky Christians off NPR. Related: What's with this Atheism Movement? What are they for? And has nobody told them that atheism has been around forever? Most Episcopalians I have known are atheists, for heaven's sake. A Google-killer? Will Google need a government take-over? Good news on the fossil fuel front: 200 trillion cubic feet of gas Kaus: If Chrysler fails in the marketplace again two or three years from now, after billions more in government subisidies, ...

Judge Andrew Napolitano: A Judicial Activist
Ramblings of a Rising Media Star: Mitchell Blatt Blog — Natural Law Has No Place in the Courtroom Judge Andrew Napolitano, former New Jersey Superior Court Judge, now an analyst for Fox News, said that he thinks judges should “sidestep” constitutional law and rule with natural law in some cases, while speaking at the CATO Institute today, promoting his book Dred Scott’s Revenge. He said that he did so himself in some cases while on the N.J. court. For example, he said that had he presided over Susan B. Anthony’s trial over her voting in 1873, he would have ruled in favor of her right to vote based on natural law, even though it was prohibited by the Constitution. That’s ...

Nation of Men, Not of Laws
American Thinker — October 01, 2009 Nation of Men, Not of Laws By Tad Wintermeyer Roman Polanski and his allies seek to rape the United States and her Constitution. While this metaphor may seem repugnantly acerbic, it rings true. Webster defines rape as the act of seizing and carrying away by force. The thin raiment that hid the left's hatred and disdain for our Nation's Constitution has been torn to shreds by their vocal support of a convicted rapist and sodomist. Instead of defining what is' is , the left has stooped to define what rape' rape is. The left has laid bare its enmity towards justice and the rule of law. According to the left, the Constitution is ...

Obama’s College Thesis From Columbia Surfaces
Nice Deb — Time Reporter Joe Klein  was only allowed to see ten pages of the thesis, but you only need to see one paragraph to know why Obama wanted to keep his college papers under lock and key. Barack Hussein Obama is an enemy to the United States constitution: “… the Constitution allows for many things, but what it does not allow is the most revealing. The ...

Obama’s un-American agenda
Israpundit — Excerpts from Obama’s Columbia Thesis Reveals America’s Worst Nightmare is in the Oval Office from Atlas Shrugs/Pamela Geller Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered Houston, we have  a problem. Obama’s political leanings ...