In McCain’s last gasp at “victory”, he lunges for the “socialist” tag used so successfully against democrats since the Regan years. I think McCain is going to find that he wont have much success though. McCain still doesn’t realize that the economic crisis has finally made Americans aware of the economic imbalance that Republican policies have helped to create.
Discussing those failed Republican policies is a worthy conversation to have. However, McCain, Fox News and the Drudge Report are trying to tie a comment Obama made in 2001 to redistribution of wealth and ultimately paint Obama as a socialist. McCain like the republican party has simply run out of ideas.
Cass R. Sunstein Article:
In the last few days, the McCain campaign has portrayed Barack Obama as a “socialist,” and apparently the campaign and others are combing through Obama’s past statements to see if he has ever favored “redistribution.”
The latest ridiculousness, featured in a screaming headline on the Drudge Report and described under the title “Shame” on the National Review website, involves some remarks made by Obama on public radio in 2001.
In that interview, Obama was discussing efforts, in the 1960s and 1970s, to redistribute resources through the federal courts. Obama said that the Warren Court was not so terribly radical, because it “never entered into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.” He complained, not that the Court refused to enter into those issues, but that “the civil-rights movement became so court-focussed,”
Full Article Here
Update:
ABC News debunks the McCain campaign lies about Obama’s 2001 remarks on the constitution.