Comments on: The Real Obama: Forget the Constitution, Economic “Justice” Demands Redistribution of Wealth

By: Roger's Rules » Obamaville: The Next Kettle for the Tea Party?

Roger's Rules » Obamaville: The Next Kettle for the Tea Party? — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:43:19 +0000

[...] a clarion call for a new species of “community organizer,” one not taught by chaps like Bill “just-a-guy-in-the-neighborhood” [...]

By: Roger’s Rules » Adventures in empathy, with an excursion today’s funniest headline and (added bonus) a trip down memory lane

Sat, 02 May 2009 14:08:27 +0000

[...] remember what Senator Obama said about the Supreme Court back in ancient times, i.e., in 2001. As I noted in this space last October, Obama acknowledged the “formal” victories that were achieved with the civil rights [...]

By: Roger’s Rules » Incompetence, malevolence, or both? or Why Obama’s policies are pink, not green (with a coda on my new favorite section of the U.S. Constitution)

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:50:19 +0000

[...] around.” And Obama, like Lenin, has been perfectly frank in recommending that we need to go beyond the “merely formal” rights enunciated in the Constitution in order to “bring about redistributive change” in [...]

By: Andre' Jones

Andre' Jones — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:26:31 +0000

Did we question George Bush’s born again? Did we steer into strong evangelistic values? Did we re-think church and state when we had faith based initiatives? HOLY CRAp! Somehow the right wing agenda was so righteous that it went without scrutiny, just like the entire administration. Republican silly putty.

By: Roger’s Rules » Thoughts on the instinct of self-preservation or, Why I still, even now, believe John McCain will be moving to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on January 20

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:22:15 +0000

[...] Obama’s reassurances about a tax-cut for the little guy, they worry when a 2001 interview surfaces and Obama can be heard criticizing the “essential constraints that were placed by the [...]

By: Roger’s Rules » Commander-in-chief vs. Nanny-in-chief, or two cheers for selfishness

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:16:49 +0000

[...] lament in a 2001 interview that the Supreme Court had not ventured into “issues of the redistribution of wealth,” for example–it gave the electorate a rare glimpse behind the carefully constructed [...]

By: Roger’s Rules » Obama: Moderate, Or Radical in Moderate’s clothing?

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:21:07 +0000

[...] on mainstream airs.” It has been a stunningly effective makeover. As late as 2001, in that now-infamous interview he gave on Illinois public radio, Obama advocated breaking free “from the essential [...]

By: Roger’s Rules » The Obama Oath of Office: change we can believe in?

Roger’s Rules » The Obama Oath of Office: change we can believe in? — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:53:18 +0000

[...] interview with then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama from WBEZ radio surfaced (I wrote about it here). The ostensible subject was the civil rights movement: its triumphs and tragedies. But what [...]

By: ehunter

ehunter — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:39:07 +0000

Hey…wait a minute..”voluntary” service for high school punk Obama supporters whose idea of sacrificeis having to do without the newest video game…now here we have wonderful chance
to grind reality into these smug spoiled children. How long did student radicals last cutting sugar cane for Castro?
About 2 weeks….then they were begging for a flight home never to return to what they swore was social justice paradise.

By: Robert E.

Robert E. — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:26:02 +0000

Obama sounds like another famous academic-turned-politician who had the same contemputuous view of the Constitution — Woodrow Wilson. I think this country would be a lot better off with fewer Wilsons and more Reagans.