Economic justice + community-organizing "coalitions of power" = ...?

Sounds an awful lot like he's talking reparations, doesn't it?

You know -- I think he's actually quoting the Reverend Wright here. Approvingly.

You think he wishes to offer that defense?

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Well, I must say it certainly was delightful being able to post a flaming skull.

See you next Open Blog.

And yes, I have uploaded the video to my YouTube account. See my earlier post for the files.

Posted by: Open Blog at 11:08 PM | Comments (10)
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Heh, I guess he was instructed to avoid saying he's a democrat, and to stay the fuck away from other democrats.

...Mahoney has downplayed his party affiliation. He skipped the Democratic convention, refused to formally endorse Barack Obama and describes himself as "an independent voice" in campaign literature that doesn't mention he's a Democrat...

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So I'm told.

Posted by: Ace at 10:35 PM | Comments (54)
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A Democratic challenger against a Jewish Republican incumbent state lawmaker wonders about that suspiciously Jewish name, Mandel.

And that's only the second most objectionable attack in this audio.

Posted by: Ace at 10:28 PM | Comments (18)
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Bumped. Fresh stories below.

H/T TheBigOldDog

Transcript [ace]: ..from Stop the ACLU.

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 people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for it IÂ’d be o.k. But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasnÂ’t that radical. It didnÂ’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states canÂ’t do to you. Says what the Federal government canÂ’t do to you, but doesnÂ’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasnÂ’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendancy to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.

It's the economic justice, stupid.

Update III [Vinnie] Here's the entire interview (requires RealPlayer)

Update IV I've converted the video from .flv to Windows Media. Download it here. I've also turned into an MP3 audio.

Down the memory hole? I think not.

Translation [ace]: As lefties are suggesting idiotic interpretations, and even some on the right are getting it wrong, here's what he's saying:

1. The Supreme Court never considered "redistribution of wealth" or "economic justice" among the guarantees provided to citizens.

2. Even the Warren Court was not "radical" enough to do so -- to impose real change on the nation.

3. The courts have generally provided negative constraints on the government rather than positive obligations the government owes to its citizens (specifically, here, such as economic justice and redistribution of wealth).

4. Therefore, it is a "tragedy" that the civil rights movement became so courts-focused, because it limited what redress they could actually obtain -- and it took attention away from the "community organizing" efforts which could assemble "coalitions of power" (political power, that is) to actually achieve "redistributive change." Such change simply could not be had in the courts, still laboring under the "constraints" imposed by the Founding Fathers.

5. "And in some ways we still suffer from that."

Give it up, lefties -- that's what the quote means.

A mistake the right is making is claiming he wanted the courts to assume a more radical, wealth-redistribitionist posture -- which I have no doubt at all he does believe, but he doesn't quite say that in the quote.

He is saying that the courts were the wrong venue to seek such change, not being "radical" enough, and that "community organizing" and assembling "coalitions of power" were the right ways to do so.

And so he's done so himself, of course. The courts were not the right vehicle for "redistributive change," but getting himself elected president, with a socialist-friendly supermajority of Democrats in Congress to rubber stamp his agenda, is the right vehicle.

The "coalitions of power" are being assembled as we speak.

More Uploads! Hillbuzz warns Obama's cultists will have this video taken down by tomorrow, as they did with every Hillary vid.

So be ready for some uploading.

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Yup, we're all out of bubblegum.

Did we net a big fish? Only time will tell.

A U.S. military official said the raid by special forces targeted the foreign fighter network that travels through Syria into Iraq. The Americans have been unable to shut the network down in the area because Syria was out of the military's reach.

"We are taking matters into our own hands," the official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the political sensitivity of cross-border raids.

More good news here.

Hat tip: The entire right blogosphere. I don't know possibly where to start!

Update: Again from LWJ, it appears we have a target.

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More national attention for the online contribution scam Obama is running, but as with the National Post story Ace linked it's treated with a shrugging: "What can you do?" As if AVS is something new or unheard of. The story also manages to present this as an equal problem for McCain.

Lawyers for both the Republican and Democratic parties have asked the Federal Election Commission to examine the issue, pointing to dozens of examples of what they say are lax screening procedures by the presidential campaigns that permitted donors using false names or stolen credit cards to make contributions.

"There is so much money coming in and yet very little ability to say with certainty that you know who is giving it," said Sean Cairncross, the Republican National Committee's chief counsel.

While the potentially fraudulent or excessive contributions represent about 1 percent of Obama's staggering haul, the security challenge is one of several major campaign-finance-related questions raised by the Democrat's fundraising juggernaut.

How does the reporter know that fraud only represents about 1 percent of contributions? We already know that it's possible to circumvent the campaign finance restrictions by simply switching names. He goes on to say that donations of less than $200 aren't reported and no records are kept of donations of less than $50. It seems to me that there are plenty of ways this fraud could exceed 1 percent and that we simply can't know because the Obama campaign doesn't keep records of more than the name, amount contributed, and last four digits of the credit card.

I talked to my mother today (yes, I call home on Sundays; I'm the good son) and asked if she'd heard about this story. Nope. She had heard about the people who had fraudulent Obama contributions show up on their statements, but not this story. Her response:

"Obama has to cheat to win. It's that simple."

I skipped telling her about Ohio Secretary of State Brunner's 200,000 voter registration mismatches. High blood pressure runs in the family.

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Too late? more...

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Okay, I am such a wuss. I'm making phone calls for the volunteer McCain/Palin phone bank, and it's harder to talk to strangers than I expected. It should be no problem to just chat, "what up biddy, who ya votin' for?" I think the script is tripping me up.

But you know what's worse than talking to people? Talking to their answering machines. I don't know what it is, but I am incapable of speaking coherently to an answering machine. Not just making campaign calls, but ever (which was more of a problem back in my secretary days).

So, gimme your tips for making these phone bank calls. General advice about speaking to answering machines would also be appreciated.

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