I wouldn’t be anywhere near the wrong part of a big city come Election Night.
McCain/Palin may have just found their salvation. Someone found a2001 radio interview of Barack Obama in which he talks about theSupreme Court’s reluctance to redistribute wealth to “correct”inequality, and he says it’s one of the “tragedies” of the Civil Rightsmovement that it focused too much on the courts and not enough on“organizing communities” to push for legislation to bring about“redistributive change.” This is probably the best thing that’shappened to McCain since Walgreen’s had their two for one deal onMetamucil.
Obama’s campaign has seized upon Drudge’s inaccurate headline (2001OBAMA: TRAGEDY THAT ‘REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH’ NOT PURSUED BY SUPREMECOURT) in order to try and dismiss the whole thing. Drudge got itwrong; Obama didn’t say it’s a tragedy that the SC didn’t pursueredistribution of wealth. He said it’s a tragedy that the Civil Rightsmovement focused too much on bringing about change through courtsinstead of building grassroots movements to redistribute the wealth.
Sothe headline is wrong, but got the underlying message right – Obama wason the radio in 2001 saying that it’s a tragedy that there hasn’t beenmore redistribution of wealth to blacks in America.
The Obama campaign can try to deflect the issue by dismissingDrudge’s sloppy headline, and pretending that since Obama didn’t saythat, he didn’t say anything like it. But they must know it’s notworking; they’ve gotten so desperate that they’ve trotted out a HarvardLaw School Talmudist, Cass Susstein, to explain to peoplethat they’re not hearing what they think they’re hearing, and what theythink is Obama lamenting a lack of redistribution of wealth to blacksis actually the exact opposite, and up is down, and hot is cold, etc.
Good luck with that, Rabbi Susstein.
The election is still too close to call, but after Middle Americahears about this, it could swing things enough for McCain to pull itoff.
I wouldn’t be anywhere near the wrong part of a big city come Election Night.