Now go get the real quote and post it
I am sure that would be hard, so here is the full quote
" 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 redistributive change and in some ways we still suffer from that."
I am sorry did the real quote, not selectivly cut off when you wanted change the meaning of what the quote was?
Granted this is the actual quote. But as far as I can tell, it says the same thing. He would prefer to have the courts reinterpret the constitution to mean things that it never was meant to mean.
In all honesty, this is perfect poetic justice. What has happened is, people have reinterpreted his comments to mean exactly what he meant.
He is however, wrong. The court did radically change the way the constitution is used, from what was intended. The constitution is not a list of negative liberties. It is a list of positive government mandates, with everything else assumed negative. The constitution was never a list of what we the people, can or can not do, but rather a list of specific things the government is supposed to do, and everything else is assumed not.
For example, the government is supposed to build and fund a military for the protection of the entire nation. The government does not have any constitutional right to run a social security program. The government is supposed to regulate interstate commerce. The government does not have any constitutional right to control or dictate education. The government is supposed to write, sign, and maintain trade and treaties with other nations. The government does not have any constitutional right to fund health care.
Thus, if you read the constitution, the way it was written, most of the current government spending is unconstitutional. Most of what are major issues in our politics today, would never have been even allowed to be considered by the founding fathers. And most of the problems we have are caused by us not following our own constitution.
People get bent by the idea government is becoming more oppressive, and the Patriot act is eroding our freedoms and so on. Yet the biggest danger to our freedoms is people simply ignoring what the constitution says. And right now, the front runner on doing that, is Obama.
When you grant the government the ability to ignore our constitution because you want free health care, you have also granted them the ability to trample your freedoms. You can not say we need to reinterpret this little part so we can get free health care, but not reinterpret this part and lose freedom of speech. You might try that, but once you allow 'reinterpreting' to mean whatever you want, the same people are going to change everything else as well.
McCain has no dignity left, its sad to wach what was a good man, go down like this in a way.
Huh. He does not think he doesn't have dignity. All the people voting for him, don't think he doesn't have dignity. So basically this is hearsay.
Obama has no dignity left, it is sad to watch what never was a good man, do down like this is a way.
Don't you love these pointless exchanges of unsupportable opinion?