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RUSH: Barack Obama, ladies and gentlemen, calls himself a "constitutional professor" or a "constitutional scholar." In truth, Barack Obama was an anti-constitutionalist professor. He studied the Constitution and he flatly rejected it. He doesn't like the Constitution. He thinks it is flawed. Now I understand why he was so reluctant to wear the American flag lapel pin. Why would he? He says, "And to the extent as radical I think 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. 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."
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Good Lord, ladies and gentlemen! I don't see how he can take the oath of office, which is this: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and I will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." Rejected the Constitution.  Now, what about early voting? Do they all think that Obama has stepped on the Constitution the way his friend and self-described communist and anarchist Bill Ayers stepped on the flag? By the way, as I said, forget the $250,000 that you're protected against tax increases, and forget Obama's new figure of $200,000.
It's not the number; it's the concept. The idea of income redistribution is this man's core. Listen to it in his own words. Now, this is from a now-defunct Chicago-area NPR program called Odyssey. He appeared on this when he was a state senator and "constitutional scholar." Ahem! He appeared in this program three times between 1998 and 2001. This is I guess from September of 2001. The hostette, Gretchen Helfrich says, "We're joined here by Barack Obama who is Illinois State Senator from the 13th District, senior lecturer in the law school at University of Chicago," and then Obama says this about the redistribution of wealth.
OBAMA: 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 invest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples so that, uh, I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and -- 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.
RUSH: "But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and the more basic issues such as political and economic justice in this society." He went on to say, "To that extent..." Well, here. He went on. Rather than me read it to you, let me let you hear this in his own words.
OBAMA: As radical as I think 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 has been interpreted -- and 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, 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, and one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, uh, 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 redistributive change. And, uh, in some ways we still suffer from that.
RUSH: So they're out there saying that this whole mess of "redistribution of wealth," that's a distraction. It's not a distraction; it's the core. It is who Obama is. But I'm stuck on several things. You can talk about the Warren Court and how they didn't do enough or they weren't radical enough, folks, the thing that leaps off the page is when he says that 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." Note the terminology here. He looks at the government as something that can do something to people, and he's mad that the Constitution limits the role of government in people's liberty. That's why he's saying he doesn't like here. He doesn't like the idea of liberty, and he wants to change it! |
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RUSH: I want to play audio sound bite number two again. Of all these bites -- and it's hard, ladies and gentlemen, to pick one that is more striking than the others. But this whole business that the Constitution says what the federal government can't do to you and what the state government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal or state government must do on your behalf? It most certainly does spell out some things it must do on your behalf. He doesn't understand. Yeah, he does understand. He just doesn't like it. What do you think protecting individual liberty is? The federal government may not encroach, the Bill of Rights. They spell out the limitations on the government's power, and those are all things the Constitution expresses that the government must do on our behalf. I know what he means, "must do on our behalf."
He's talking about give things to people who don't have what he thinks is enough. Now, there's name for this. It's called negative rights, and it is a concept that is taught in many of the so-called higher institutions of learning. There's an entire movement out there pushing this view, including at the law school where Obama was a sometime professor, the University of Chicago law school. Now, what this does to me raises another point. Every left-wing nut job thought and attitude found in college classrooms could become a reality under Obama. This is what he knows. This is who he is. Forget his talk about tax cuts. Forget all of his tacking to the right on social and economic issues. He's doing that to win the election. He can't win running around saying this stuff. That is why they're trying to shut us up from talking about his plan to redistribute. But this, folks, is fundamental here. This audio sound bite where Obama discusses the concept of negative rights along with a discussion of the Earl Warren Supreme Court.
OBAMA: As radical as I think 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 this has been interpreted -- and 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, 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, and one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, uh, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political --
RUSH: All right, stop the tape. That's enough. "Court-focused" is another little misnomer here. The Supreme Court had nothing to do with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That happened in the United States Congress. Now, granted, there was a lot of court activity on all this, but to say the political process was not involved here is simply untrue. But this charter of negative liberties, negative rights; he's complaining when he says this. He's complaining! I am struck by the notion here that he says "what the federal government can't do to you. It doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf." This is a complaint. This is nothing short of a condemnation of the Constitution, and he calls himself a professor.
Now, the Constitution establishes each branch of the government, and here's how the Constitution begins: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Now, what the hell is negative about that? A charter of negative liberties? This is perverted. I mean some people call this radical. I call it perverted. Did Professor Obama forget about Articles 1, 2, and 3? Articles 1, 2, and 3 establish the foundation of our government: separation of powers.
The greatest government, the freest society in the history of the world, and Professor Obama calls it a charter of negative liberties! To me, ladies and gentlemen, the Constitution is a gift of God. The Constitution is not a disappointment. It's a blessing. What kind of person does not understand the purpose and meaning of a document written by the greatest defenders of liberty the world has ever known? Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Washington, Hamilton, they created a charter of negative liberties? There's a big movement out there. A lot of Obama voters believe this stuff, folks. A lot of the people in Jeremiah Wright's congregation believe this stuff. They've been raised to believe all this, this charter of negative liberties. And who taught who? I'm beginning to wonder.
After hearing these tapes -- and I've got more sound bites coming up -- but we've all been led to believe that the angelic Barack Obama, fresh off a virgin birth, somehow arrived out of the manger and ended up in Chicago, where his countenance and his brilliance was spotted immediately by radicals who said, "Wow, we have our savior, and we can mold our savior into the front man to achieve what we want to achieve." I'm beginning to wonder just who taught who. How much did Obama teach Ayers? How much did Obama teach Jeremiah Wright? Obama didn't have to hear what Jeremiah Wright said in his sermons. Obama believed it already!
Obama may have half written those sermons. You can hear it in his charismatic demagoguish fashion on these tapes. This is how the Constitution begins: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice...." He said they didn't come up with a Constitution that said what they must do in our behalf? What the hell is officially proclaiming and bestowing liberty on people from God, if not something on our behalf? "Ensure domestic tranquility," what's negative about that? "Provide for the common defense," what's negative about that? "Promote the general warfare," not provide for it, by the way. "Promote" is a key.
"...and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity," that means you and me, "do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." There's nothing negative about this whatsoever, unless you are obsessed with race, unless you are a socialist obsessed with race and unfairness, and he starts talking about how the court was not radical enough. The Warren Court wasn't radical enough, and we need to use the court to redistribute here. Let's move on to the audio sound bites from Barack Obama. He then tells a caller that he's not optimistic the court can do this. Gretchen, the host, says, "Hi. The gentleman made the point that the Warren Court wasn't terribly radical. My question is -- with economic changes. My question is, is it too late for that could I have reparative, reparative work economically, and is that the appropriate place for reparative economic work to take place? The court, or would it be legislation at this point?"
OBAMA: I'm not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. Eh, uh, you know, the institution just isn't structured that way. You just said look at very rare examples where during in the desegregation era the court was willing to, for example, order, you know, changes that cost money to local district. And the court was very uncomfortable with it. It was hard to manage. It was hard to figure out. You start getting into all sorts of Separation of Power issues, you know, in terms of the court monitoring or engaging in a process that, uh, essentially is administrative and -- and takes a lot of time.
RUSH: The court was uncomfortable with it? It was hard to manage? It was hard to figure out? This is quite a litmus test, ladies and gentlemen. We now know what kind of justices this radical is comfortable with, and we now know why Obama didn't do town hall meetings with McCain, and we now know why he won't hold press conferences. We now know why Joe the Plumber is the enemy of the Obama campaign. Joe got Obama to tell the truth! Joe the Plumber got Obama to reveal himself: his core anti-American anti-constitutional values. And we now know that official Ohio government computers were used to dig up and target information on Joe the Plumber. Imagine this folks.
What kind of towering, soaring speech can Obama give based on these beliefs that we have now come to know? Would he quote Marx? Would he demand the change in the spirit of the Soviet Union? Would he ask us to have Constitution-burning parties? Barack Obama has allied himself with like-minded people who also have a disgust and a distaste for the Constitution. Radicals, these people are. Probably many more radicals than we'll ever know. They are his soul mates. This is scary, scary stuff. "You know, redistribution is a distraction. Redistribution's a distraction." Redistribution, folks, is the part of the process where the government confiscates private property and uses it to secure their own power! This is a must in terms of understanding what redistribution is.
It's not about fairness. It's the process where the government confiscates private property, uses it to secure their own power. They buy votes with money that they confiscate. They use the money and their power to control both the public and the private sectors. Redistribution is the middle part of the formula. Before redistribution comes confiscation. After, is exerting control backed up with the force of law. Redistribution is the least frightening part of socialism. What comes before and after is what shocks like a Taser. This whole package goes well beyond socialism. Here's more Obama. He has to add that if he could come up with a rationale for bringing about economic change through the courts, he would do it.
OBAMA: Yeah. And the courts just not very good at it and politically it's very hard to legitimize opinions from the court in that regard. So I mean I think that although you can craft theoretical justifications for it legally, you know, I think you can -- any three of us sitting here can come up with a -- a rationale for bringing about economic change through the courts.
RUSH: Right. Redistribution. This is how he views the Supreme Court, and he will have the power to populate it with people who believe in those very things. Now, how is he going -- and I asked this earlier. How is he going to place his hand on the Bible and swear that he, Barack Hussein Obama will uphold the Constitution that he feels reflects the nation's fundamental flaw. Fundamental! When he talks about "a fundamental flaw," he's not talking about a flaw that can be fixed. Fundamental means that this document is, from, the get-go wrong.
OBAMA: I think we can say that, uh, uh, the Constitution reflected a enormous blind spot in this culture that carries on until this day and -- and, uh, -- and, uh, that the framers had that same blind spot. I -- I don't think the two viewers are contradictory, to say that it was a remarkable political document that paved the way for where we are now and to say that, uh, it also, uh, reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day.
RUSH: That's not even true. Even if you refuse to call it a "fundamental flaw" and just remove the word "fundamental," he is saying -- seven years ago -- that this country has made no progress whatsoever on the official status of black citizens going back to the days of the founding. That simply is not true! Hundreds of thousands of Americans died. The Constitution was a document set up to fix itself, to allow itself to be repaired in the area of individual liberty; and it has been, far more than anybody would have ever dreamed back in the days of the founding. |
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RUSH: Now, don't get confused on negative rights versus positive. Negative rights, when I say there's an entire movement out there pushing this view, the Obama people do not call it negative rights. They say they're teaching positive rights. Negative rights is what Obama and his comrades call the Founders' approach to fundamental law. They say the Founders were negative. But this whole notion that the Constitution says what the government can't do to you, rather than saying what it must do on your behalf, the opposite side of Obama's argument is not being expressed properly by Obama himself. When he says what the government can't do to you should then be followed by instead of what it can do to you. When you look at the government as something that can do something to you, he's regretting, he has regret that the Constitution doesn't let the government do things to us. So he must say on the other end of the spectrum that, he says what the government can't do to you instead of what the government can do to you rather than this mumbo jumbo about what it must do in your behalf. But the Constitution establishes a whole bunch of things in our behalf, and Senator Obama is trying to obfuscate this.
And again, what we have here is an angry young black guy who arrives in Chicago as a 1960s radical and his contempt for the Constitution of the United States is obviously very clear. But he cannot state this, and he has to shut up all of his associates who might say it, like Jeremiah Wright. And now he's out there, by the way, he's out there saying, well, we're not going to have time, we're not going to be able to make an immediate lurch to the left. Oh, really? Just like he said we're not going to be able to take everybody's guns, even if we wanted to. Oh, really? Why even acknowledge it then? Why go on the defense, Obama? He said, well, we may not even have time to lurch left. He's alluding to the possibility, he's trying to assure people that it won't happen not because it's not who he is, it's because he may not have time, we may not have time to lurch to the left, we got too many things going on. Otherwise if you had time you would do it. It's exactly who he is, ladies and gentlemen. And let's not forget, let's go to audio sound bite number six, a montage of various sermons from Obama's preacher, Jeremiah Wright. Who taught who here?
WRIGHT (screaming): Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people! [snip] Hillary ain't never been called a nigger! [snip] Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky!
CONGREGATION: (cheers)
WRIGHT: He was riding dirty. [snip] In white America, US of KKKA: black men turning on black men. [snip] I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it. [snip] Not God bless America, God (bleep) America! It's in the Bible. For killing innocent people, God (bleep) America! [snip] (screaming) And now we are indignant because of stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards!
CONGREGATION: (cheers)
WRIGHT: America's chickensssss are coming home to roost.
RUSH: Yes, he may be profoundly correct in his own way. America's chickens are coming home to roost. We now know from Barack Obama's own words that his view of this country and Constitution varies hardly at all with that of his preacher, Jeremiah Wright.
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RUSH: Hey, quick here question, folks. What can the Constitution do to babies who survive abortions, according to Professor Obama? Nothing positive. That's for sure. |
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