Well, if the thrilling preview I posted for you yesterday wasn’t enough, now we have more casual conversations with Barack to confirm just how far left his administration will be. This newly rediscovered audio, surprise surprise that it didn’t make it out in time to be featured in a debate, not only backs up the socialist tripe that Obama handed Joe the Plumber, it goes quite a bit further.
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.
I don’t think the term ‘tax cut’ will even be relevant if Obama follows through with a quarter of the political ideology he lays bare in this interview. Is it even considered taxation if you’re converting the United States into a planned economy? The question of respecting the constitution can be thrown out the window as an issue as well. It is now quite clear that Obama understands the definition and role that the constitution plays, he just wants to tear it apart and plow through a new form of government. That is scary.
I’ve left the bolding in place as originally emphasized at Stop the ACLU but I want to focus on this sentence, which is as damning as it gets.
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.
In other words the court didn’t deliberately interpret the Constitution in such a way as to purposefully break it and go against our country’s legal foundation– something that seems to be criminal in the opinion of Barack Obama.
That takes some stones to say, my friends. I’ve seen people on the left bend over backwards trying to force original intent about any number of issues, stretching logic to the limit in order to invent protections and applications. They have always at least made the attempt to work within the legal framework of the country though! They have always tried to justify themselves in the eyes of our founders. Here Obama lays it out that not only doesn’t he care what the original intent of the Constitution is, but he has no qualms in saying that we need to break it so that America can be what he wants it to be.
Actually, that’s what Obama has been saying for the last year and a half, just in more vague terms. Obama is for HOPE and CHANGE. It just wasn’t the hope and change that most of you were anticipating. I have a feeling that should he win on November 4th, you’ll see plenty of new protections and clauses come out of those time-honored pages of the Constitution, changes that you couldn’t have even dreamed were there.
It’s a scary time. The perfect horror story for Halloween.
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