{"id":903,"date":"2009-07-03T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/03\/obama-thomas-sowell\/"},"modified":"2009-07-03T09:56:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T16:56:51","slug":"obama-thomas-sowell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/03\/obama-thomas-sowell\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s vision according to Thomas Sowell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Sowell is the author of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Conflict-Visions-Ideological-Political-Struggles\/dp\/0465002056\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1246640052&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">A Conflict of Visions<\/a>,&#8221; to which reference is made in this video clip.\u00a0 You could read Sowell&#8217;s book and not be easily able to tell what his political and social perspectives are, because it is a very even-handed presentation of the matter of &#8220;visions of the public good&#8221; and &#8220;visions of the nature of the human person.&#8221;\u00a0 Here he is discussing the vision of Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yt_q4FA9kUQ\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>What would you pay to see an extended discussion between Thomas Sowell and Barack Obama, on virtually any issue now before the republic?\u00a0 It would be guaranteed to be eye-opening.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-903\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/03\/obama-thomas-sowell\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-903\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/03\/obama-thomas-sowell\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-903\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/03\/obama-thomas-sowell\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/03\/obama-thomas-sowell\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/03\/obama-thomas-sowell\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Sowell is the author of &#8220;A Conflict of Visions,&#8221; 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