USC College Republicans Host Teach-In on Obama; Video Now Available Online
The David Horowitz Freedom Center together with the University of Southern California College Republicans co-hosted a successful teach in last Wednesday on President Barack Obama’s attempts to radically transform America into a socialist state.
The event featured three prominent experts in their fields: Sally Pipes from the Pacific Research Institute; financial analyst David Bahnsen; and Hoover Institute Fellow Victor Davis Hanson. The three speakers addressed a packed room of over 90 attendees about the radical steps the Obama administration has taken in the realms of healthcare, the economy, and foreign policy.
Sally Pipes began the event by questioning the effectiveness of health care reform, examining the conflict between the massive cost of the bill and the potential benefits of health care reform. “People make it clear they don’t want higher taxes, they don’t want higher deficits and they certainly don’t want rationed care,” Pipes remarked.
David Bahnsen, a Red County columnist and the senior vice president of one of the premier Wall Street firms in the country, discussed Obama’s disastrous economic philosophy. “Dishonesty is especially unbecoming in an era of ‘hope and change,’” Bahnsen remarked, “but frankly, in the USA we do not get to pick who deserves the protection of our laws. A free market economy relies on one thing above all else; and that is price discovery.”
Victor Davis Hanson spoke about foreign policy in the context of “moral and cultural relativism” practiced by the Democrats in Congress in which protesting is now evil, filibustering is counter-productive, and recess appointments are necessary, despite these legislators holding opposite positions on all three practices during George W. Bush’s eight years in office. For the political left, Hanson says, “The United States has an impossible standard of behavior. It has to be perfect. If it’s not perfect, it’s not good…history then, is not tragedy, its melodrama.”
After a lively question and answer session, the event came to a close with a raucous applause. Despite the fact that many of the flyers advertising the teach-in were defaced in the days leading up to the event with anarchy signs and the word “racist” written next to the DHFC and CR logos, there were no protests or disruptions of the event.
The USC event is part of a series of teach-ins sponsored by the David Horowitz Freedom Center at campuses across the nation. The events are designed to alert the nation’s college students to Barack Obama’s attempt to radically transform America into a socialist state.
“This was one of the best events we’ve ever had” USC College Republicans President Alexa Ekman said at the conclusion of the event.
Video of the USC event can now be viewed online at www.DavidHorowitzTV.com.
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