Obama's Thesis, Wealth Redistribution, and the Founding Fathers

Rush spoke today about a the leaked portion of Barack Obama's college thesis that addressed the absence of "wealth redistribution" or more accurately, government theft and confiscation as a mechanism of a will to power.

However, Obama was absolutely incorrect due to an absence of real education on the matter, or he just plain ignored it. Frankly, Obama should have failed this assignment since he was factually inaccurate and appears to be inventing history out of whole cloth.

"… the Constitution allows for many things, but what it does not allow is the most revealing. The so-called Founders did not allow for economic freedom. While political freedom is supposedly a cornerstone of the document, the distribution of wealth is not even mentioned. While many believed that the new Constitution gave them liberty, it instead fitted them with the shackles of hypocrisy."
-- Passage from "Aristocracy Reborn" Barack Obama's Thesis at Columbia University

**UPDATE** As Rush stated, the blog site says its was purely satirical, but since this is exactly how Obama thinks, it will be supported as factual... after all they did the same thing to Rush over the NFL now didn't they? (The Management)

"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 … 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 tendency 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…. I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through courts… The Constitution reflected an enormous blind spot in this culture that carries on until this day … The Framers had that same blind spot … the fundamental flaw of this country."
-- 2001 Barack Obama Radio Interview (similar audio here: In his own words)

And here:

As Rush stated, why didn't they address it? Because they didn't believe it...

John Adams on the subject:

“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. Property must be sacred or liberty cannot exist.” (John Adams, The Works of John Adams, 6:9, p. 280.)

Thomas Jefferson on the subject:

"[The] rights [of the people] to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods." --Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1816.

"I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put it out of the power of the few to riot on the labors of the many." --Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804. ME 11:33

"Our wish... is that... equality of rights [be] maintained, and that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers." --Thomas Jefferson: 2nd Inaugural Address, 1805. ME 3:382

"To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association--'the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.'" --Thomas Jefferson: Note in Destutt de Tracy's "Political Economy," 1816. ME 14:466

...And these aren't the only examples on their view of "wealth redistribution" or the more accurate term, confiscation at the point of a gun... i.e. theft.

So in short, Barack Obama getting an 'A-' on his thesis is an illadvised grade, or more to the point, the professor was just as ignorant as Obama. The Founding Fathers think its theft and immoral. Which speaks volumes about liberals.

It has been expounded upon at the following sites:

American Thinker: Obama's Columbia thesis excerpt surfaces
PJM: Obama and the Constitution; He Has His Doubts