Ann Althouse puzzles over an assertion, in The New York Times, that President Obama’s winning agenda included rebalancing the distribution of wealth. Obama
“„Obama ran on a redistribution of the wealth agenda? So, back when he was campaigning, and his opponents characterized things he said as meaning that he wanted to redistribute the wealth, and his supporters shouted that down as typical right-wing distortion, Obama was really laying the groundwork for claiming that he had won a mandate to redistribute the wealth?