Throwback Sunday with the Most Equal Comrade

I came across this in the comment thread under Dana Milbank's WaPo column today.  The column was Milbank's attempt to craft a posture of disgust at what Guliani said at that dinner last week, and to make Walker's statement (in being asked about what Guliani said) that he didn't know whether the Most Equal Comrade was a Christian or not, and then try to make Walker's recent "I'll-punt-on-that" response to a question about evolution equal in weight.  And to try to make Cruz and Jindal seem nutty as well for agreeing with Guliani.

Anyway, let us remember this:

Barack Obama, 2001:  

'If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court ... 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 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, at least as it’s been interpreted. 

And the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can’t do to you, it 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. One of the I think tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that 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 coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributed change and in some ways we still suffer from that.'

These are not the words of a man who understands and cherishes that which is exceptional about America.  These are the words of an enemy of America.

Hey, Dana, do I now qualify for your pantheon of nutters?