Obama’s Redistributive Wealth Message
October 27, 2008Say it ain’t so, Joe! Looks like our man Joe the Plumber was onto something…
Check out this newly released clip of a radio interview Sen. Obama had in 2001…
Socialism?
You betcha.
Michelle Malkin posted 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 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 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 behalf, and that hasn’t shifted 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 tendancy 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 redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.
ummm, no.
You guys are morons. He is not advocating some specific type of redistribution, especially some kind of socialist type of redistribution. We already possess, in this country, a progressive tax system that is by its nature a redistributive mechanism. It was set up to explicitly redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor. Even Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations (and, John McCain in 2000) advocated for this. So nice try, but no dice.
Obama can’t undo what he has done and can’t take back what he has said.
Lindsay you are another so called Conservative lined up behind the butts of the Reagan Conservatives preparing to kick us in front of the spineless moderate Conservatives bus.
Nice try. Go polish your Obama sign in your front lawn.
Barack Obama wants to roll back taxes to what they were during the Clinton Administration – thats not socialism.
Many people have no idea what socialism means. Socialism is when the government owns and runs an institution. “Social” Security is socialism. Are republicans advocating that we end Social Security and Medicare? I guess they are. I hope that seniors are smart enough to realize that they might lose their benefits if they vote for McCain, because Republicans like McCain and Palin view those handouts to seniors as socialism (and many republicans are rich enough not to need social security and would rather not pay into it).
Also, Republican leader George Bush and Henry Paulson have been buying banks the past couple of months. That is socialism, which is taking place at the request of Republican leader George Bush.
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