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As you may have already heard, an audio clip has surfaced of Mr. Obama endorsing wealth redistribution, and suggesting the common interpretation of the Constitution was flawed for not including it. While this further confirms why he is, to me, the greater of the two major evils to choose from this election, I think many are drawing too complex of a conclusion from the clip.
The views Mr. Obama espouses in this audio clip, which not surprisingly is so far being ignored by the MSM, are radical for US politics, but not really for academia. Loyal readers will remember that I indeed speculated that these were the type of beliefs Mr. Obama picked up in academia, which is where they are most commonly held.
The real issue here is that this is directly refutes countless statements by Mr. Obama and his surrogates. Honesty is the question. If Mr. Obama held these views, then discarded them, and was honest about the process, few could fault him. However, deceiving the public is another story.
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We can pretty much guess how people on both bookends of the campaign will react to this. The Obama side will dismiss this, and the McCain side will (hopefully) wave this around as indications of dishonesty, if not trying to inject socialism directly into the American Constitution (!?!?!).
Now that we are nearing the all-important November 4th, and the likelihood that any other major developments is waning, the most important x-factor is how this will affect the undecided voters if at all. As reported here in an earlier post, the IBD/Tipp poll was the most accurate poll from the previous election. As of 10/22/08, it currently gives Obama a 1% lead over McCain with 3% undecided. A later poll from 10/27/08 shows 8% undecided, but I'm not sure how accurate that is.
Either way, the undecided group has the potential to determine this election.
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