Obama says constitution flawed!

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Registered: 01-28-2004
Obama says constitution flawed!
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Mon, 10-27-2008 - 10:08pm

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iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 11:18pm

that is not the interview it was from 2001


iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 11:19pm

yes that is it!


Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 11:20pm

http://theusconstitution.org/blog.history/



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 dispossessed peoples. So that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and 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 this society. And to that extent as radical as 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 the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can’t do to you, it 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. One of the I think tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that 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 of power through which you bring about redistributed change and in some ways we still suffer from that.


http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_102708/content/01125107.guest.html

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-19-2004
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 11:21pm
Do you believe redistribution of wealth is a good policy?
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-18-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 11:23pm
I wholeheartedly agree with his statement you posted. Has the Constitution addressed equal pay for equal work? No, it hasn't in my opinion. Has it addressed all Americans' right to a decent standard of health care? No, it hasn't.
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-17-2003
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 11:24pm

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Do you believe redistribution of wealth is a good policy?
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Does anyone believe this isn't nothing more than a talking point?

The wealthy will still be wealthy, I will not suddenly become wealthy, no wealth is going anywhere.

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Reward Republicans for 8 years of failure? No way, No how, No McCain!

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 11:25pm

I've been searching the internet(s) for more on this.

Sopal

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Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 11:27pm

No, he didn't. He did not say they should have. What he said was: "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 this society.

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-18-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 11:40pm
Yes, that
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-18-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 11:43pm
What's your definition for "redistribution of wealth"? Is it some kind of slogan or does it actually have a meaning for you? Define your terms so we

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