Monday, October 27, 2008

Re: Dismissing the Story   [Andy McCarthy]

I'll have more to say about Obama's "redistributive change" that Mark alludes to, and which is certainly the most important aspect of Obama's 2001 commentary.  I just want to highlight for a moment, though, Obama's telling observation that he thinks the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren’s tenure “wasn’t that radical.” 

Most prominent among its many excesses, the Warren Court spawned a criminal rights revolution.  Not to be a broken record, but it’s worth recalling that Obama gave a rave review to former terrorist Bill Ayers’s polemic against the criminal justice system, A Kind and Just Parent.  More radical than even the Warren Court, Ayers's book called for an end to prisons and harsh sentences for violent offenders.  Obama praised it as a "searing and timely account." 

The longer you study Obama, the more his views align with Ayers’s on various issues.  Yet, the Obamedia continues its smear that those who raise the candidate’s troubling relationship with an unrepentant, anti-American, Leftist revolutionary are engaged in a vile “guilt by association” campaign.

10/27 01:31 PMShare