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In seven days we may all be living life in Obama’s America. If Barack Obama is elected, will he really bring “change we can believe?”

iVoteAmerica is not completely certain what it will be like to live life in Obama’s America. However, we can prognosticate with some degree of certainty based upon the content of Obama’s speeches and of course, the company he has kept over the course of his political career.

Since revisiting William Ayers and Reverend Wright would be an exercise in futility, let’s focus on the content of his verbiage and the language flowing from his lips. Each reader can determine from the flow of words, past and present, whether they would prefer to find themselves living life in Obama’s America beginning in January, 2009.

Here is the much talked about content from Obama’s Chicago radio interview in September, 2001. Note: the bold emphasis is ours.

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 invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for it I’d be o.k.

But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical.

It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendancy to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.

I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. You know, the institution just isn’t structured that way.

- Barack Obama, Chicago Public Radio, September 6, 2001

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