Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005),
What does redistributive mean. Well, remember that it was the liberal Left-Wing Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court that brought us this little jewel, holding that the government could take your real property, like your home, not for public use like a road or school, but to give to another private individual, such as a political contributor or other party hack or interest group.
Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another to further economic development. The case arose from the condemnation by New London, Connecticut, of privately owned real property so that it could be used as part of a comprehensive redevelopment plan. The Court held in a 5-4 decision that the general benefits a community enjoyed from economic growth qualified such redevelopment plans as a permissible "public use" under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the majority opinion; he was joined by Justices Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer
The decision was widely criticized by American politicians and the general public. Many members of the general public viewed the outcome as a gross violation of property rights and as a misinterpretation of the Fifth Amendment, the consequence of which would be to benefit large corporations at the expense of individual homeowners and local communities. Some in the legal profession construe the public's outrage as being directed not at the interpretation of legal principles involved in the case, but at the broad moral principles of the general outcome.
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At times, McCain seemed to lament his own strategy, acknowledging that two men who talked a lot about changing the tone in Washington seemed to have given in to the gravitational pull of negative campaigning down the home stretch. When Schieffer asked about the nasty tone of the campaigns, McCain said he regretted "some of the negative aspects of both campaigns" and spoke about his hurt feelings after the harsh criticism of John Lewis, the Democratic congressman and civil rights icon. But whatever remorse he might have felt was short-lived, as he pivoted and slammed Obama for running negative ads and rejecting public finance for his campaign after suggesting that he would. "You didn't tell the American people the truth," McCain scolded Obama.
Obama tried to tack back to the economy, saying voters weren't interested "in our hurt feelings." But McCain continued on the warpath, whacking Obama over his association with the 1960s radical William Ayers and his connection to the community group ACORN, which stands accused of submitting fabricated voter registration cards.
McCain's unease with the clubs he was wielding grew more manifest as the exchange wore on. By the end of it, he insisted both that Ayers and ACORN were critical to the election, and that his campaign was all about the economy.
"It's not the fact that Senator Obama chooses to associate with a guy who in 2001 said that he wished he had have bombed more, and he had a long association with him," McCain said. "It's the fact that all of the details need to be known about Senator Obama's relationship with them and with ACORN and the American people will make a judgment. And my campaign is about getting this economy back on track, about creating jobs, about a brighter future for America. And that's what my campaign is about and I'm not going to raise taxes the way Senator Obama wants to raise taxes in a tough economy. And that's really what this campaign is going to be about."
Now you can spend your time talking about Joe the Plumber. Or you can spend your time talking about Bill Ayers. You can even mix up a bit of both. But you can't spend your time talking about terrorists while insisting that you're only concerned about plumbers.
The instant results made for miserable reading for Republicans. According to CNN's polling, Obama beat McCain by almost two-to-one, winning the night 58 to 31 points. Over at CBS, where the network polls undecided voters, Obama won by an even bigger margin: 53 to 22 points.
Whatever happens in the next two weeks, the McCain campaign should be happy there are no more presidential debates.
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