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Old 10-27-2008, 07:07 AM   #68 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Derwood View Post
specifically?
What's your point? I made a statement of my belief based on my observation of each man as a big picture. I do not say Obama is evil, I believe he is operating openly and says what he means.

Another example of from where I believe Obama's core ideology really "lurks" just came out in today's news...

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Originally Posted by Barack Obama in a 2001 radio interview
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 vest formal rights in previously disposessed peoples so that I would now 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 okay, but the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in the 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 free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the constitution at least as it's been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted it 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 it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf... and that hasn't shifted and one of I think the tragedies of 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 coalitions through which you bring about redistributive change and in some ways we still suffer from that.
While these sentiments do not use specific language of Marx, the spirit of the ideology is (IMO) there. I've posted on these "leanings" in Obama's ideology months back. We see reaffirmation of this rhetoric laced in his words throughout his career.

I don't hope to convert anyone here. The OP asks the question, I answered it.

There's clips of this 2001 WBEZ (Chicago) interview available on YouTube. Make of this what you will.
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