Submitted by Wil Welsh: [The Rush Limbaugh video mentioned is at the end of this post]
Shocker for conservatives: Obama may not hate the Constitution
by Alex Koppelman
Salon.com
October 23, 2009
The right, including Rush Limbaugh, falls for a hoax about the president’s college thesis
On Friday, it seemed for a moment — at least to Rush Limbaugh’s listeners — that the right had finally found the smoking gun to prove that President Obama secretly hates the U.S., its founders and even the Constitution.
Limbaugh read his radio audience an excerpt from what he said was Obama’s senior thesis, which he wrote while at Columbia University. After more than a year shrouded in secrecy by the Obama campaign and a compliant media, the thesis had finally emerged, and it was even worse than some had feared.
The excerpt read by Limbaugh:
[T]he 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.
Limbaugh was, naturally, up in arms about this, calling the college-aged Obama a “little boy,” and saying, “he still shares those same feelings.” Continue reading “Obama Hates (Not) the Constitution”