Obama bemoans 'constraints' on Constitution

October 27, 12:27 PMConservative Politics ExaminerKathy Shaidle

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In a 2001 interview that's currently making the rounds, Presidential candidate Barack Obama sounds like the radical progressive he actually is, rather than the moderate centrist he pretends to be. (Here's the transcript.)

In this interview, Obama calls for the "redistribution of wealth." Period.

Now, it's a shame that millions of Americans are so dumb or indifferent that they'll hear something like that and respond, "Right on."

And of course, Obama frames his socialist policies as the natural outcome of the Black civil rights movement, effectively putting his policies beyond the realm of criticism in polite society.

Lest we care to invite charges of "racism," we can never, for example, question the words and actions of Martin Luther King Jr., even when he plagiarized his doctoral thesis, cheated on his wife or, like Obama, advocated Marxist economics.

Meanwhile, civil rights activists are lauded to this day for essentially questioning the very notion of private property. (Being a man with a sense of principle and history, Barry Goldwater defied popular fashion and voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, for the sound reason that "he believed, as a conservative, that the federal government did not have the power to compel states to conform to its idea of racial equality, or to dictate to individuals whom they must associate with" -- and because he was "convinced that the Constitution offered him no other honorable choice."

We can only pray that any misguided citizens who are mindlessly cheering on Obama's socialist plans are as lazy in their political lives as they are in its other aspects, and are too "busy" sleeping, eating junk food and watching TV to actually go out and vote on November 4.

As the Campaign Spot puts it:

Obama's calm baritone can make anything sound reasonable, even a frustrated lament that "the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth" (...) If Obama read aloud William Ayers' memoir Fugitive Days, many listeners would nod in appreciation of the poetic contrast between the blue sky and the singing birds in the description of the day the Pentagon was bombed.