Obama’s Wealth Redistribution “Tragedy”
By James Edwards
McCain/Palin may have just found their salvation. Someone found a 2001 radio interview of Barack Obama in which he talks about the Supreme Court’s reluctance to redistribute wealth to “correct” inequality, and he says it’s one of the “tragedies” of the Civil Rights movement that it focused too much on the courts and not enough on “organizing communities” to push for legislation to bring about “redistributive change.” This is probably the best thing that’s happened to McCain since Walgreen’s had their two for one deal on Metamucil.
Obama’s campaign has seized upon Drudge’s inaccurate headline (2001 OBAMA: TRAGEDY THAT ‘REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH’ NOT PURSUED BY SUPREME COURT) in order to try and dismiss the whole thing. Drudge got it wrong; Obama didn’t say it’s a tragedy that the SC didn’t pursue redistribution of wealth. He said it’s a tragedy that the Civil Rights movement focused too much on bringing about change through courts instead of building grassroots movements to redistribute the wealth. So the headline is wrong, but got the underlying message right – Obama was on the radio in 2001 saying that it’s a tragedy that there hasn’t been more redistribution of wealth to blacks in America.
The Obama campaign can try to deflect the issue by dismissing Drudge’s sloppy headline, and pretending that since Obama didn’t say that, he didn’t say anything like it. But they must know it’s not working; they’ve gotten so desperate that they’ve trotted out a Harvard Law School Talmudist, Cass Susstein, to explain to people that they’re not hearing what they think they’re hearing, and what they think is Obama lamenting a lack of redistribution of wealth to blacks is actually the exact opposite, and up is down, and hot is cold, etc.
Good luck with that, Rabbi Susstein.
The election is still too close to call, but after Middle America hears about this, it could swing things enough for McCain to pull it off.
I wouldn’t be anywhere near the wrong part of a big city come Election Night.
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