Posted on 10/27/2008 8:01:17 AM PDT by pissant
On September 6, 2001, then-state senator Barack Obama appeared on a public radio chat show to discuss "Slavery and the Constitution."
You can listen to the whole show HERE.
In that show -- WBEZ-FM's "Odyssey" -- Obama discussed the role of the courts in civil rights.
Today, aides say, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will seize on some of those remarks, as hyped by Mr. Drudge.
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 was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples, so that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be okay."
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
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"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 everyone can live out the promise of equality," Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton says. "Make no mistake, this has nothing to do with Obama’s economic plan or his plan to give the middle class a tax cut. It’s just another distraction from an increasingly desperate McCain campaign."
Burton continues: "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. That view is shared by conservative judges and legal scholars across the country.
"As Obama has said before and written about, he believes that change comes from the bottom up – not from the corridors of Washington," Burton says. "He worked in struggling communities to improve the economic situation of people on the South Side of Chicago, who lost their jobs when the steel plants closed. And he’s worked as a legislator to provide tax relief and health care to middle-class families. And so Obama’s point was simply that if we want to improve economic conditions for people in this country, we should do so by bringing people together at the community level and getting everyone involved in our democratic process."
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ROFLMAO- quite the spinnin going on. Mr. Burton is going to find his explanation very very inadequate. What a f**** liar.
It’s utterly amazing that the McCain campaign has to depend on us for their opposition research. Sheesh.
Private Property Rights
Tired of having the fruits of their labors confiscated by an overpowering British government, America's Founders declared themselves free and independent.
Most American schoolchildren can recite their claim that ". all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights ... to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Less familiar, however, are these lines from their Declaration of Independence:
"He ( King George III ) has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance .... He has combined with others to subject us, ... imposing taxes on us without our consent."
What, then, did the Founders consider to be the real cornerstone of man's liberty and happiness? On what basic premise did they devise their Constitution? Let them speak for themselves:
| John Adams |
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God ... anarchy and tyranny commence. PROPERTY MUST BE SECURED OR LIBERTY CANNOT EXIST"
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| James Madison |
"Government is instituted to protect property of every sort .... This being the end of government, that is NOT a just government,... nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has ... is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest." |
Their guiding principle was that people come together to form governments in order to SECURE their rights to property - not to create an entity which will, itself, "take from the mouths of labor the bread it has earned." What was wrong for individual citizens to do to one another, they believed, was equally wrong for government to do to them.
The right to own property and to keep the rewards of individual labor opened the floodgates of progress for the benefit of the entire human race. Millions have fled other countries to participate in the Miracle of America.
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So Opp. research can’t find this but Drudge can. I’m not quite regretting that I didn’t donate to these nincompoops.
“as hyped by Mr. Drudge”
A link to youtube...Wow...
Nice hype, especially when he was last to the party on this.....
Make that FR, not Drudge. But bless Drudge for headlining it.
The NONSENSICAL response from Osama Hussein’s spokescommie is one for the ages.
Drudge didn’t find it either. It was forwarded to Drudge yesterday after the Youtube was being passed around. And then we launched an investigation into the WBEZ website and found more audio. See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2116224/posts
Drudge just reaches a larger audience than the rest of the Blogosphere!
Snort. More like the shakedown process.
Note to the spokesflack: Nice try, though.
ABC doesn't report this as as new audio of Obamah, but rather reports on MeCain's "attack" upon That One.
I saw McCain make a statement this morning and say NOTHING about the Marxist Reparationist's radio interview. When is he "going" to attack Obama? A week from Tuesday?
when we said we would have to drag him across the finish line we meant it. He has done nothing. It’s all Joe the Plumber, Sarah the Mom and “what’s her name” the Florida News reporter.
McCain will win because of “Me the everyone” not because he is a great candidate. Let’s argue about it later. McCain is very heavy and we need to focus while pulling him...
Even Better! Good work, People!
Fundamentals, the key to victory.
I could care less if we have to drag him across the finish line, I just want to make sure Obama does not get in with a super majority in Congress. I pray for that.
Isn’t that the truth? McCain will put it out, not because of his “winning” message but because of good patriots like are found on this site.
I’d suggest you focus on unveiling Barack Obama. Because it has become evident that unless we do it it won’t get done.
Mr. Burton as Barack Obama said “ Words have meaning” .
This is a HUGE issue. If it wern’t you would not see such a long-winded defense from Burton.
Their norm is to either A.) blow it off and let libmedia CTA. Or B.) a one sentence brush off.
This, they know, is BIG.
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