AP FACT CHECK: McCain Misreads 2001 Obama Interview.

“Republican John McCain is misreading seven-year-old comments by rival Barack Obama about ‘redistributive change’ to argue that the Democrat’s tax policy is built on ‘taking your money and giving it to someone else.’ … Obama never said that, according to an audio file circulated by Naked Emperor News, a Web site with many postings critical of Obama. Fox News also posted a partial transcript of the interview. What Obama called a tragedy was the civil rights movement’s focus on the court, rather than on ‘political and community organizing activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change.’ Obama did not define redistributive change in the interview, but he said one example of such change involves education, “how do we get more money into the schools and how do we actually create equal schools and equal educational opportunity… The interview on Chicago’s WBEZ had nothing to do with taxes.” [AP, 10/28/08: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FACT_CHECK_REDISTRIBUTING_WEALTH?SITE=VACUL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT]