Wake up, America. Is an editorial written by Cal Thomas in the Indianapolis Star. I was unable to find the article online, but I will continue to look. For now I have re-typed the whole thing with my comments. (in blue) If anyone can link this article, please, please, please let me know. I want to give this man all the credit in the world for his great editorial. CLICK HERE. This is a slightly different version than what was in the Star, but all the same none the less.
I have been thinking back over this endless campaign, wondering why I didn’t see the signs of socialism in Barack Obama’s views the first time I saw him on Oprah. The October surprise may turn out to be a 7 yo interview with Barack Obama in which he strongly suggests that the US Constitution is an impediment to his desire to redistribute the nations wealth. How does Obama credibly take the oath of office to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” when he thinks it impedes his socialist agenda?
Is socialism too strong a word? Consider one of its definitions from dictionary.com and tell me it is something other than Obama’s economic philosophy: “A theory or system of of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor.”
A complete restructuring of society is what Obama advocated in a 2001 interview on a Chicago Public radio sation. According to Politico.com, Obama, “reflection on the Warren court’s successes and failures in helping to usher in civil rights said, “I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed people.” He has it backward. The Creator already endowed African-American people with these rights, which is precisely the argument powerfully made by Martin Luther King Jr. Any rights that are “vested” in people by other people may be removed by the same or future people. Endowed rights are “unalienable” and what America did was to finally recognize those rights. The distinction is crucial because it also relates to abortion and many other social issues. If a court can take away the right to life, then NO endowed right is safe. WATCH THE VIDEO!!!!! Lets pause for a second. The court has taken away the right to life. A child, given life by God, the Creator, does not have a right to that life. What is next? I have to ask Barack Obama, how would you feel if the courts took away your right to be black? God made you black, the Creator created you black, You are black. What if the court decided, that you were no longer allowed to be black? Would you be ok with that?
Obama continues with a comment that the “Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of the redistribution of wealth and sort of basic issues of political and economic justice in this society, and to that extent as radical as people try to characterize the Warren court, it wasn’t that radical.” Does he mean that for real “justice” to have been achieved, the Warren Court should have taken from the rich and given to the black poor? Obama never said what would happen once the redistributed money ran out. Perhaps this was not to be a one time event, but a lifetime of “reparations” for slavery, as some other left-wing black leaders have proposed. READ ABOUT THE WARREN COURT
Obama thought the Warren court should have “broken free” from the constraints placed on the Constitution and the courts by the Founding Fathers. This is remarkable hubris. Break free of the constitution? Are you kidding me? The Constitution is the single, most important document framing the government of the United States. It is what makes us a Democratic Republic, not Democracy, like Brittan. It is what saves us from Dictatorship, and the rise of Factions. It is what protects our God given rights as Mothers, Fathers, Children, Adults, Blue Collar, White Collar, Religious and Agnostic alike. The Constitution IS, i repeat IS the United States of America! With out it we are just another country. One in the same with our allies and enimies alike. Perhaps with out the Constitution we would be a country Michelle Obama could be Proud Of. Is that what you want? What country are you proud of?
This is radical in the extreme and Obama, along with his many acolytes who are itching to get their hands on unchecked political power, are a danger to this nations survival.
John McCain stands in the way of a complete liberal coup that would transform America in ways the founders and most Americans would oppose. McCain may be dull at times; he may have run an imperfect campaign; he should have spent more time exposing Obama as a radical socialist instead of worrying what the media would say if he did, but John McCain is a patriot who has proved his love, service and dedication to this country in ways that Obama cannot begin to achieve or appreciate.
Electing Obama president would be a roll of loaded dice. We will live (and posibly die) to regret it. Republicans have made many mistakes and deserve the punishment they are now getting, but the one charge that cannot be laid at their doorstep is that they wanted to rewrite the Constitution and weaken the country.
Wake up, America, and stop glirting with this guy because you are flirting with potential disaster.
– Thomas writes for Tribune Media Services. Contact him at calthomas@tribune.com–
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If there were no social security, if there were no bail out plans, if there were no welfare….. maybe people would be better with money.
People would learn their lesson if the Government weren’t there to put a comfy pillow under your ass everytime you fell.
I say let’s start letting some butts hit the sidewalk, and hit it hard!