http://www.columbusdispatch.com/liv...IN28.ART_ART_10-28-08_A1_SUBNMIM.html?sid=101
In that interview, Obama said one of the "tragedies" of the civil-rights movement was that it relied too much on the courts and lost track of the ability to "bring about redistributive change."
"That's what change means for the Obama administration, the 'redistributor': It means taking your money and giving it to someone else,"
McCain told a crowd of about 2,000 at the James S. Trent Arena.
"He believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs. ...
He's more interested in controlling wealth than creating it, in redistributing money instead of spreading opportunity. I am going to create wealth for all Americans, by creating opportunity for all Americans."
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/10/28/mccain_attacks_obama_on_redistribution/
In that interview, Obama said one of the "tragedies" of the civil-rights movement was that it relied too much on the courts and lost track of the ability to "bring about redistributive change."
"That's what change means for the Obama administration, the 'redistributor': It means taking your money and giving it to someone else,"
McCain told a crowd of about 2,000 at the James S. Trent Arena.
"He believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs. ...
He's more interested in controlling wealth than creating it, in redistributing money instead of spreading opportunity. I am going to create wealth for all Americans, by creating opportunity for all Americans."
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/10/28/mccain_attacks_obama_on_redistribution/
Obama, talking about the civil rights movement and Supreme Court, says: "I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples so that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order [and] as long as I could pay for it I would be OK. But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society."
Calling it one of the "tragedies" of the movement, he added that there was "a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and 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."