I've been looking into "Obama as Constitution Hater" material. Here's what I've managed to track down. Notably, this was incredibly hard . . . all I could find were far right sites that took clips out of context, and often gave me no hint where to find the rest of it. I finally tracked down complete or more extensive versions, and as far as I can tell, his views are within the mainstream of Constitutional scholarship. To the left of me, perhaps, but not "radical," not "Constitution hating." Now, maybe there's stuff I'm missing, but these are the two things he discusses, and neither are anything like what I'm hearing "repeated."
I'm not the greatest fan of the man, but I'm beginning to get sick of the totally bizarre, vastly distorted accusations I keep hearing. He may be far to the left. He might even be a "socialist" though little he has actually proposed on the trail sounds too much like socialism, at least if you take it in context. But who knows, maybe he's hiding it. Maybe he DOES hate the Constitution . . . but that's not what these two "demonstrative" cases show.
His infamous chat about the Supreme Court, negative liberties and redistribution of rights, if you read the whole thing, and take into account he's a former law professor, is absolutely correct. His point is that the Democrats because too focused on using the
courts to accomplish political goals, when the courts, by their nature, and the nature of the Constitution, are not in a position to do such things. I can even think of a case EXACTLY like that (it may be the one he was speaking of, I know it was an education case). Suit was brought to equalize funding for public schools, because poor schools had less money. Basically, the Court said that the Constitution doesn't require equal funding for schools, do it through the democratic process. Obama isn't blasting the courts, or the Constitution . . .he's admitting that Democrats were wrong to try to do these things with the Constitution, by trying to have them made Constitutional
rights, rather than just trying to get laws passed. There's no right to equal school funding . . . but there's no Constitutional ban on it either. You want that, you go to the People, not the Constitution.
"Fundamentally Flawed": Obama was speaking on a program, on 2001, about the Constitution and slavery. He was speaking, quite accurately, about the very real flaws that were written into the Constitution regarding race. He also states that the Constitution is a wonderful document that got us where we are today. I'm unable to download the full thing, unfortunately, and hear it all. But the context is slavery, and he's completely right. For a discussion of this, see:
http://belowthebeltway.com/2008/10/28/barack-obama-says-the-constitution-is-flawed-and-hes-right/
Most importantly, these two incidents were separate occasions. What he emphatically did NOT say was that the Constitution is fundamentally flawed because it doesn't have the redistribution of wealth. Now, maybe he believes that. But you can't derive that belief from either of these statements.