M Stanton Evans author of the theme is freedom you start off saying you dedicated this book to the memory of your father. How come . What was the motivation . Well for one reason because he was my father, and a very good father. But also because many of the things that this book is about were things that i discussed with him many times. And about which i learned many things from him. So sort of for both of those reasons. Where did you live in the early days . I was born in texas and he was at that time he was for much of his life a College Professor and a teacher as was my mother who is still living. And very active by the way. And he was teaching at a Little School called texas a i in kingsville texas in 1934 before i was born. Then we moved before chattanooga tennessee, and he taught there at the university of chattanooga in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Then in world war ii he went in and he taught other schools as well. Then he went into the Atomic Energy commission when they wer
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politics and policy and economics. i think this is a losing way for romney to go. not just because of his own church affiliations that raise questions, and in an immediate history than any of obama s, but it be bomberrang on him. we don t like to be reminded of that, of the ugliness of that history. i think bringing up the wright connection does that. it might work with some part of the gop base, but in such an ugly way it s not worth it. i agree with that, thank you both, anna marie cox and wes moore, thank you for joining me have a great weekend. still ahead, a facebook founder gives up his u.s. citizenship and avoids paying millions of dollars in taxes. looks like the right win just found a folk hero. let s hug it out.
but wes, not getting into who should be angry or not, is it wise if you re willard mitt romney to open up a discussion on people s past church affiliations and all of that. isn t that wise for him to say let s not go there because he doesn t want that discussion in this campaign? i think if mitt romney could be honest, he would say please stop this, this is not helping me. this is not helping my candidacy at all. mitt romney wants to talk about the economy, issues like employment. that s what he wants to talk about. not if the president of the united states spent more time or less time in jeremiah wright s church. we have seen this playbook before. it did not work. mitt romney is becoming the antithesis of the mccain