"But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of the wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent, as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break us free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution … And the Warren Court interpreted, in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties … I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change.”
-- Barack Obama
So, from the lips of That One we have something approaching some principles of consequence. I have given some of my opinions about the socialist leanings of Obama, and attempted to get into those matters about a week or so ago in what turned out to be an interesting if not complete proof of those leanings as first principles. I was hoping that those who cover defensively for the good Senator might attempt some arguments on behalf of what they interpret as his deeper meanings. Instead we have been given to understand that he *is* deep but doesn't have to be explained. Why? Essentially because he's smarter than his opponents. And so long as he can demonstrate this facility in navigating the sharky waters of negative campaigns without not looking Presidential, we can take him at face value.
So perhaps this bite from 2001 gives clarification of his off the cuff remarks to Joe The Plumber and we have come up with something I consider to be a matter on which the Obama noggin has been contemplating at some length, and it's more than just a notion. I think at long last we know exactly what kind of change Obama has been all about. Redistributive Change. That's more like it.
Have we met the core of Obama's intellectual desire finally? Or is this just another bit of smoke and mirrors from the Denier?
A lot has been said about the intellectual incuriosity of Sarah Palin. I think it is a self-evident fact. But as a matter of principle, I'd rather have someone who cares little more to expand her mind beyond the requirements of a job, than one who claims intellectual superiority without being forthcoming about what motivates him beyond platitudes.
Uhm and just for your memory, for those not interested in that link. Here's exactly what I wrote 15 days ago having never seen the above quote:
Barack Obama represents himself as a candidate for Social Justice, and as such, based upon socialist ideas, defies the authority of America as the ultimate philosophical origin of his legitimate power. Obama believes more in social justice than in the American Constitution and will seek to change American life in deference to principles originating out of Leftist critiques of Capitalism and of Western Society.
Nailed him, I think.
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