To: FJB who wrote (316879 ) 7/27/2009 12:10:02 PM From: tbancroft 2 Recommendations Respond to It provides an interesting contrast. Sarah Palin is called a "quitter", but she refuses to give up on America. Barack Obama is called a Messiah, but his true message is that we should all be willing to give up (i.e., quit) on the America our founding fathers launched so many years ago."... 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. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution , as least as it’s been interpreted, and the 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 it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn’t shifted." - emphasis mine
