Barack the Redistributor - So who cares? Redistribution is good for America!

By George Bennett, Palm Beach Post

In Ohio today and probably in Florida later this week John McCain is hitting Barack Obama as Barack the Redistributor based on these excerpts from a 2001 radio interview:

Since being hyped by the Drudge Report late last night, the clip has more than 1 million hits on YouTube....The tape is from an hourlong public-radio broadcast in 2001 (the full show available here) in which Obama, then an Illinois state Senator and University of Chicago law professor, and other panelists discuss slavery in the U.S. Constitution before Obama goes into the redistributive change discussion.

Here's a quote from Obama that McCain highlighted in a speech today:
One of the, I think, the 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 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.

McCain's comment during a speech in Ohio today: That is what change means for Barack the Redistributor: It means taking your money and giving it to someone else. He believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs. He is more interested in controlling wealth than in creating it, in redistributing money instead of spreading opportunity. I am going to create wealth for all Americans, by creating opportunity for all Americans....

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By the way.. I need you to take half of what you are earning and send it to me for one full month. Hell it's only fair.. I promise I'll turn around and give it to someone else.