Common Folk Using Common Sense

In a 2001 Chicago Public Radio Interview Obama discussed the best way to bring about a Redistribution of Wealth:

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.

Isn’t it a shame, Obama, that the dreaded Constitution is in the way of your New Socialist Vision For America?

Says Jeff G. at protein wisdom:

In Obama’s America, we’ll finally be able to break free of the “constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution” — and in so doing, achieve “social justice” through “redistributive change.”

Says Ed Morrissey :

The government does not exist to determine the acceptable level of wealth of its individual citizens. For government to assume that role, it would have to end private property rights and assume all property belonged to the State. That is classic Marxism …

Says Neal Boortz:

Well, I guess that the left has really made some progress. We now have a presidential candidate who talks openly of increasing taxes not because the government needs the money, but because the people who do have the money don’t actually deserve it and there are other people out there who need it more. Sorry folks, but facts is facts. Redistribution of the wealth is a basic tenant of Communism. To whatever degree you support a forced redistribution of wealth you are a Communist. Simple as that.

The warning signs have always been there. In his book Dreams from my Father Obama writes of a relationship he had in is late teens with someone named “Frank.” For some reason Obama doesn’t include his last name. Obama refers to Frank as “a poet” who was full of “hard-earned knowledge.” He also says that Frank had “some modest notoriety once.” Yeah, I’ll say. Frank was Frank Marshall Davis was a member of the CPUSA. For those of you who don’t like acronyms, that’s Communist Party of the United States of America. Frank Marshall Davis … some mentor, don’t you think?

Says Sarah Palin about Obama’s vision for America:

It leads to government moving into the role of taking care of you, and government and politicians and, kind of moving in as the other half of your family to make decisions for you. Now they do this in other countries where the people are not free. Government as part of the family, taking care of us, making decisions for us. I don’t know what to think of having in my family Uncle Barney Frank or others to make decisions for me.

Pray tell, why hasn’t the mainstream media already discovered this, and why haven’t they already trumpeted this across the airwaves?

Every third news story today is screaming about how terrible the economy is, how we’re just a whisper from a complete meltdown, over and over. Since Socialism is the exact antithesis of Capitalism, and since both Wall Street and our economy is based on Capitalism, exactly what could happen if Obama institutes his massive income redistribution?

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