GraniteGrok

Once again, the MSM has been scooped by a single individual using the Internet.  This audio recording of an interview given by Barack Obama is now starting to let us know what his definition of change is all about - and what he thinks how the Founding Fathers failed us in that most spectactularly successful of political documents - the US Constitution.

He believes that the Founding Fathers were wrong.

Here's the link - go Listen To It!  And remember one thing - his dulcet tones make it sound like nothing is amiss with his ideas of changing the Constition via the judiciary.

The actual written words in a transcript are absolutely scary.

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.

So far, OK

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.

In other words, the Constitution never spoke to the idea that taking private property from one to give to another - that's a failure???  He basically says that the idea of Private Property, essential to a free and democratic society, is null and void.  The Constitution is a flawed document.

THIS IS VERY SCARY!

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.

That IS the point of the Constitution - the Founding Fathers had the genius to know that it is uncontrolled government that is the problem and not a solution.  They knew that if they did not hamstring government to protect individual liberties, those liberties would be taken away.  It was SUPPOSED to be a limiting document.

"The Change We Deserve" - As Obama now wishes to do (along with the like minded Dems) - unfettered government, a.k.a, socialism.

Our friend Pat has this to say:

“With each passing day the American people discover a little more about Sen. Obama’s plan to redistribute families’ paycheck earnings.  Sadly, it’s not coming from the Obama we see at campaign rallies barking prepackaged talking points from a teleprompter.  Rather we see it in unguarded moments on YouTube, when Obama is presumably speaking from his heart.  Bottom line, if Sen. Obama is elected, watch your wallet.”

Pat, I'll go further - it will be our wallets FIRST - our freedoms second.....and third...and fourth....