Obama the Communist (cont.)

Here's some audio from a radio interview in 2001.

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 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 redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.

Comments

[Change]

You guys make me sick. This is exactly what is wrong with our nation. I voted for Obama, not because I thought he would follow all of this left wing crap and get rid of all the right wing crap, but I personally believe that he is the one choice that will find a happy medium. But that won't happen if people like all of you, rally around him and our nation, and actually bring about the change he has spoke about for the last 2 years. I don't think any of us can disagree that these last 8 years have not been good. However, that didn't make me decide to vote for Obama over McCain. I actually feel that he is going to unite Washington in hopes to get rid of certain "parties." People haven't been this "American" and have rallied around each other so much since 9/11. Why do we need events like that to all become Americans. We have to stop judging people on race, religion, sexual preference, etc. I feel we should have a much further progress in this nation than we do. I feel that Obama will actually work with US... and we need all of you to believe in that, or at least accept that, in order to become a "United" nation again!

[BETRAYED]

How can a man who doesn't have the respect to correctly "pledge allegiance" to our American flag, expect to be our commander in chief?????????????? ABSURD!!!! AND ABSOLUTE HIPPOCRACY!

[Mark]

This is nuts! If it's a close race and Obama loses, his supporters will burn down towns and riot...AGAIN

[JJP]

The only way to combat this situation is to never ever support a democrat even for the most meaningless PTA or condominium board post. If you know someone is a democrat--boycott his business. Stop all democrats forever.