The policies that serve as a basis for trying to understand this radical transformation of America.

Obama’s Radical Transformation of America

Transcript of the panel discussion “The Radical Transformation of America,” featuring Stanley Kurtz, David Harsanyi, J. Christian Adams and moderator Michael Wienir. The event was part of the Freedom Center’s Texas Weekend, held May 3rd-5th at the Las Colinas Resort in Dallas, Texas.

Michael Wienir: We have three outstanding and prominent and profound scholars and experts. And we’re going to talk about Obamaism and the radical transformation of America. We’ve heard a lot about that already this morning. It reminded me, when I was asked to put this together, about Barack Obama marching into the Correspondents Dinner last week in Washington, DC. Many of you probably saw it — he had rap music playing in the background. And he joked that some in this country consider him a Muslim Marxist. And it’s just that sometimes attempts at humor are perilously close to the truth.

(Laughter)

In The Wall Street Journal last Sunday, Peggy Noonan wrote about Obama on a personal level — called him imperious, manipulative, unable to execute or govern, prone to endless interviews and campaigning; characterized by his imperturbable drone; graceless, conveying an aura of superiority and arrogance, and appeared not to be at all awed by the Oval Office. Now, that’s talking about the man.

So we’re going to talk more about, today in this panel, his failures in terms of what you’ve heard about already today — national security, economic security and energy security; his lying, his dishonesty; the policies that serve as a basis for trying to understand this radical transformation of America.

And so I’m going to ask the panel two basic questions, which they don’t know about yet because I’ve kept it quiet from them.

(Laughter)

But I want to put this all into perspective in terms of defining what the David Horowitz Freedom Center does.

You heard from my son Jeffrey this morning about the mission statement of the Center, which is to defend free societies from those factors, those organizations, that are attacking our Western civilization, both secular and religious, at home and abroad. And are the policies of Obama — Obamaism, if you will — compatible with the mission statement of the David Horowitz Freedom Center? And second, Obamaism — is it compatible with the core values of the Center? What are those core values?

Some of you have not been to our events before. We believe and work for individual freedom, limited government, the rule of law, and economic freedom and free enterprise, and strong national defense. So is this radical transformation of America, Obamaism — is that at all compatible with those things we believe in at the David Horowitz Freedom Center? I think we know the answer.

(Laughter)

But we’ll get more details on that as we go along.

....

Read more: frontpagemag.com