Billed as “The ULTIMATE FIGHT between the LEFT and the RIGHT” last night’s live-cast debate between Bill Ayers and Dinesh D’Souza was epic.
It was such a popular event on the internet that #AyersDSouza was trending on Twitter for a couple hours (not sure if it ever hit #1, but it was a strong second for more than an hour).
The topic up for discussion was ~ The Nature of America and its meaning in the world; what makes America the unique place it is and how has it both succeeded and failed in living up to its ideals?
Ann Kane at the American Thinker shared her observations ~ Bill Ayers Fizzles at Dartmouth Debate with Dinesh D’Souza ~
The Indian American immigrant vs. the radical white son of a one percenter capitalist was quite a spectacle […]
The professor from Chicago waxed poetic about that city being the best example of the answer to the debate question of “What Makes America Great?” Ayers kept listing name after socialist name of great American heroes including his wife Bernardine Dohrn. Really? […]
Since Ayers can’t get off the problem with “white supremacy” in America today, and talked a lot about slavery and disenfranchised groups including women and “queer rights” groups, D’Souza countered with the unknown fact that 300,000 white men from the north during the Civil War fought against the south to win freedom for slaves […]
In comparing libertarians to anarchists, Ayers said they have in common that we should have a “deep skepticism of government” and of “the imposition of the state in our lives.” That’s really an odd statement coming from a small ‘c’ communist. He’s all about the State being in our lives.
Bill Ayers is stuck in the sixties, congenitally unable to appreciate or even understand the foundational principles bequeathed to him by the founders. The professor is the proverbial “glass-half-empty” guy, angry, unable to come to terms with the fact that the world isn’t perfect; he’s sure that if we all just listened to him and his ilk it would be.
In contrast to the unrepentant terrorist, Dinesh D’Souza – the latest target of ideological persecution by Obama’s Department of INjustice – was astute, upbeat and historically accurate. And he gave one of the best analogies for the Right/Left dynamic that I’ve ever heard (I’m paraphrasing) ~
Making the pie is much more profound than slicing the pie.
A couple of the best tweets ~
#AyersDSouza: Ayers makes bombs and kills, becomes a professor. Dinesh makes a movie, is indicted. #totalitarianism #terrorism #freeDinesh
— Miss Tory (@misstory) January 31, 2014
#AyersDsouza Ayers, former anarchist, is now a proponent of big government infringing on our freedom #FullCircle
— Jane Galt (@JGalt9) January 31, 2014
#AyersDsouza If all presidential debates were like this (both sides espousing their ideology) no liberal would ever be elected #tcot
— The People's Cube (@ThePeoplesCube) January 31, 2014
You can – and definitely SHOULD – watch a video of the entire debate HERE.
