Obama a Long-time Advocate of Redistribution Reparations

Drudge has a link on his homepage of a 2001 Obama radio interview with Chicago's WBEZ, in which Obama says that it was a "tragedy" that the courts weren't more radical in providing reparations to African Americans in terms of redistributive wealth (it seems that this was Obama's preferred method to make them whole after the civil rights issues).

He says that he doesn't see the courts doing it themselves, but that the legislature still has the power to do so. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone - and it shouldn't come as a surprise that no news media will ever ask him about it either.

*Update*
Upon listening again, this clip is very disturbing. Obama talks about the Constitution as a "charter of negative liberties" and complains that it tells us what the government "can't do to us." Very troubling indeed that he doesn't understand or agree with the essence of the U.S. Constitution. It's not a surprise that Obama hasn't given a press conference in a month. Don't expect one before election day.