Monday, October 27, 2008

Obama's Socialist Agenda: In His Own Words

There's change, and then there is changing the fundamental American philosophy that has worked better than any in the world over the last 200+ years. Obama, from a Chicago Public Radio interview in 2001, spells it out:

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... 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...

Well, maybe NPR did something useful for once. Maybe. Listen for yourself:

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