NY Post - October 28. 2008 - By ROBERT ALT
IN a 2001 radio interview that's just come to light, Barack Obama discussed the Supreme Court's role in redistributing wealth. Call it Obama's "Joe the Plumber meets Justice Brennan" moment.
Contrary to some screaming Web discussions, Obama did not - at least as a practical matter - promote using the courts to redistribute wealth. Yet the interview was still revealing.
For starters, in it Obama again spoke favorably of "major" redistribution of wealth, and he gave hints about his liberal views on the judiciary.
As with most of Obama's public comments, his remarks in the interview were measured. In discussion of the high court's liberal heyday under Chief Justice Earl Warren, for example, he said, "The court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and more basic issues of political and economic justice in the society."
As a former student of Obama's at the University of Chicago, I'd note that this was rather typical of his teaching style - stating liberal propositions in a descriptive way, while neither acknowledging the radicalism of the underlying premise nor stating whether he agrees with it. ...continues...
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