The RNC Twitter feed tosses out a little oppo:
as he prepares to deliver remarks in hall that holds the constitution, flashback obama: “constitution flawed” http://bit.ly/tFL7O #RNC
Ha ha! But via Brad DeLong, the context:
Barack Obama, September 6, 2001: A September 6, 2001 program called “Slavery and the Constitution” on WBEZ Chicago…. Obama explained that the “fundamental flaw” [in the Constitution] was [that] “Africans at the time were not considered as part of the polity that was of concern to the framers.” In addition, the framers did not “see…it as a moral problem involving persons of moral worth.” http://apps.wbez.org/blog/?p=639
Another step forward in the Republican Party’s minority outreach efforts, I guess.
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