Barrack's Constitution

Don't have time to write a commentary on this and probably won't until tomorrow night but with one week and one day left in the Presidential election cycle this audio needs to be heard by every American voting in this election.

On November 4 America will vote. The winner of the election will, on January 20, 2009 swear, to the best of his ability, to, "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Today, tapes of an interview given by Senator Barrack Obama in 2001 surfaced in which he claims that the constitution reflects, "the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day." Hard to believe right? Here's the audio.

In an even more shocking statement, Obama said the following...

The Warren court interpreted it generally in the same way -- that the Constitution is a document of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf, and that hasn't shifted.

And I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was that the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and organizing activities on the ground that are able to bring about the coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change, and in some ways we still suffer from that.

Again, the audio is here.

Fox News is reporting it, as is Drudge. As of 1:52 p.m. - nothing on CNN, ABCNews, CBSNews or MSNBC's mainpages.

Just one bit of analysis...

When it comes to negative liberties I guess he didn't read the preamble which clearly states some things the government, under the Constitution, should do for it's people, namely, "...to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty..."