Victor Davis Hanson Questions Obama's Political Past

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/20/Victor_Davis_Hanson_Obama_Palin_and_the_Culture_Wars

Conservative columnist and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses several accusations regarding Barack Obama's political career.

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Victor Davis Hanson discusses Obama, Palin, and the Culture Wars.

This event was part of the Hoover Institution's Fall Retreat 2008.

Victor Davis Hanson is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor emeritus at California University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall courses in military history and classical culture.

He was a full-time farmer before joining CSU Fresno, in 1984 to initiate a classics program. In 1991, he was awarded an American Philological Association Excellence in Teaching Award, which is given yearly to the country's top undergraduate teachers of Greek and Latin.

Hanson has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, New York Post, National Review, Washington Times, Commentary, The New Republic, Claremont Review of Books, American Heritage, Policy Review, Wilson Quarterly, Weekly Standard, Daily Telegraph, and has been interviewed often on National Public Radio, PBS Newshour, the Hugh Hewitt Show, and C-Span's BookTV. He serves on the editorial board of Arion, the Military History Quarterly, and City Journal.

Since 2001, has written a weekly column for National Review Online, and in 2004, began his syndicated column for Tribune Media Services. In 2006, he began writing a blog for Pajamas Media, Works and Days.

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[deathtrapdeath]

Obama is the biggest fraud in American history. He represents the liberal well.

[roborob676]

they cant.. they just cant stand when facts are stated against their MAN.. This guy has been the most protected political figure in this country's history.. He or his dronelke supporters just dont take criticism( truth) well..

[gx240]

@thaglund1 So using products produced by corporations means you have to mindlessly support them? Take a look where your shoes and clothes are made. They're probably made in China. Does that mean you support a communist dictatorship that uses political prisoner and slave labor?  If not, you're being a hypocrite, right?

[AtlasShruggery]

@cb44ever

Cons keep trying to equate Bush's lies about Iraq with Obama cleaning up the mess that Junior and his Neocons made. Just ain't so.

Interesting that you mention the Kurds. When Ronald Reagan heard that Saddam Hussein had gassed the Kurds with the weapons that Reagan had sold Iraq, Reagan nearly missed his afternoon nap.

There are many evil dictators in the world, many of whom were installed and supported by RepubliCons. It's not our job to rid the world of them.

[cb44ever]

@AtlasShruggery hereb we go again everything about bush .. how bout 1 yr of obama admin killed with predator drones more civillians in afghanistan than 8yrs in iraq and afghanistan wit bush anything to blame bush and impune obama how bout obama allowing corporations to pay 4 his campaign a law he passed how bout that espionage and corruption no wait thats racist . you also cheer the killing of 10s of thousands of kurds , opression and all the worst of man . saddam was evil ! invasion was inept 

[cb44ever]

@jkjl234 how is it racist you take your cue from jimmy carter the biggest turncoat in presidential history the man who said he'd decriminalize marijuana til one of his staff was caught doing cocaine not this you think he did cocaine . you look for a conspiracy than when something is clear you dont accept it so someone criticizing obama's friends is racist but kanye saying bush hates black people isnt? how bout the fact obama goes to a church that the priest THAT calls 4 destruction of peoples?

[cb44ever]

@jkjl234 bush isnt pres anymore how long are you gonna bring up bush this is what uneducated people say too make themselves feel like intellectuals . you really think your cool too be like every1 else and never look into it . conspiracy , conspiracy : as long as its bush . bush was stupid there Isaid it now what pseudo intellectualism can you peddle

[olgadel1]

@AtlasShruggery You are a cheerleader for sex slave traders. A tax attorney who defends the lowest forms of life. Is the family proud of you?

[AtlasShruggery]

@socalcraigster

Naive? Were you also a cheerleader for Junior Bush's idiotic invasion of Iraq? Did you cheer when Junior went prancing around in his flight suit declaring 'Mission Accomplished'? Maybe when you've held a job and paid taxes for a few years, you'll understand.

[socalcraigster]

@AtlasShruggery - On the invasion of Iraq, you are naive to say the least. Shame on you!

[Frankcastle522]

@jkjl234 Actually Hanson is a Democrat, but he is also a realist.

[jkjl234]

@Rorschach65 you want me to address this ridiculous subject? what's wrong with not believing in American exceptionalism? IT DOES NOT EXIST. we may have more moral principles than other countries, but we are NOT ordained by god to lead the world and dominate in every facet of life. we need to work with the rest of the world to move forward. that is what obama has said, and this bable about his character and his associations is racism and bigotry. this guy is a bush fanboy asshole. please