He is a socialist and he hates the Constitution.

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.


This is from Obama's own mouth.  I do not understand how anyone - anyone - can say oh yes, I compeltely agree with the basic principles of Obama's candidacy.
 
Are you for the redistribution of wealth?  Do you think that we should all work to put money into a collective pot that we all draw from?
 
Married couples ... newly married couples ... did you do a joint checking account?  Did you do the new trendy thing which is have a house account and two separate checking accounts for you each to draw from separately?  Why did you do that?  Because you didn't want your spouse spending your money.
 
Women in particular, keep checking accounts open in their name so they have access to their money to do with as they please.  So they can keep their independence.  Now Senator Obama wants to take all that money, put it in a joint checking account for the entire nation, and let everyone, those working, those not working, everyone, draw from it equally.  So he can fairly and justly redistribute the money that you earn.
 
If you don't trust your husband with your finances, why in the name of all that is holy are you going to trust a politician?!?
 
And for the record, Senator Obama, the Constitution doesn't say what the government can do for us because the Constitution was intended to PROTECT US from the interference of the government, not promote that interference.

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S said…
Taking this quote to say that Obama hates the Constitution is unfair. His point was pretty much exactly what you wrote in your last paragraph. The Constitution says what government can't do. His whole point was that the Civil Rights movement was wrong to focus on the courts as an agent of change because policy change of that sort needs to come through legislative branches.

My constitutional law professor wrote a blog post about this that I think would be worth your time to read. http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-bombshell-redistribution-of.html

(I hope that shows up as a link, but it should be easily copied if it doesn't.)

I get that you disagree with his ideas about economic justice and I have no beef with that. But I don't think your characterization of his take on the Constitution is fair.
BellsforStacy said…
Thanks for commenting!

As a layman on constitutional law I have to assume that what your law professor said is accurate. I can only react based on what I know which admittedly is a very base knowledge of the constitution.

Thanks for the link! Happy Tuesday!

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