Santorum: Obama Wants Constitutional Amendment to Redistribute Wealth

[kpete]

Wearing his infamous sweater vest, the candidate told a group of supporters in Rock Hill, South Carolina that Obama wanted to "manage the decline of America."

"Remember the president of the United States saying when he was running for office earlier in his career, he was asked the question as a constitutional law professor, what change he would make, what deficiency there was in the Constitution?" Santorum explained. "His answer was there should be a provision for the redistribution of wealth."

The former Pennsylvania senator may have been misremembering an often misinterpreted statement that Obama made to WBEZ-FM back in 2001.

"If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement, and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples," the then-state senator said. "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. And to that extent, as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical."

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[rfranklin]

1. He can say it without fear since the majority of voters find it too difficult to think about...

They are too busy Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

[limpyhobbler]

2. We've already had that for 100 years. It's the 16th amendment.

[banned from Kos]

3. So true - but the wingnuts don't see it.

The majority of SS/Medi recipients vote GOP.

[Deep13]

4. No, that's what I want.

Obama wants no such thing.

[zbdent]

5. I want politicians to tell the truth ...

but the constitutional amendment is more likely to occur in reality ...

I'd settle for the "liberally-biased media" calling the Republicans on this bull*hit ...