by John Gaudio, Posted 2:55 PM, found by Google 4:07 PM (under 2 hours) Dennis Prager loves this country deeply. He grew up in a liberal Jewish home in New York. "Liberal Jewish is redundant." "One of the aims of my life is to unredundantize liberal and Jewish." He never voted for a Republican until Ronald Reagan. For Dennis, that was even harder than the first time he ate non-kosher food. That's how he was raised, believing that it's a sin against God and Man to be a Republican. He went to graduate school, and there he began his long long trek away from the left when he realized that he was taught mostly things that were not true. Dennis Prager has come to realize that most foolish things are said by the well educated. "It's a very serious problem in America, and it is one that I fight a great deal. Only the well educated believe that men and women are basically the same. Only the well educated believe that the Soviet Union and the United States were morally equivalent. Only the well educated think that Israel is the villain in the Middle East. Something happens in college to warp ... the moral compass."
David Sirota welcomed Dennis to Denver and appreciates the grass roots nature of this event. He hopes the libertarian conservatives attending didn't feel uncomfortable driving on roads to get here, and hopes that they don't feel uncomfortable being in a public school. :-) David grew up outside of Philadelphia, went to college at Northwestern for journalism, and went to work on Capital Hill for "the only independent in the United States Congress, Bernie Sanders, who is now a Senator from Vermont. One of our best allies on Capital hill happened to be Ron Paul."David Sirota tells us that he is not an orthodox big D Democrat. He considers himself to be a progressive, which he differentiates from being a liberal. He moved from Washington DC to Montana, where he helped a guy name Brian Schweitzer to become the state's first Democratic governor in sixteen years, then moved to Denver. His brother is a Dennis Prager listener, and a progressive, who likes a diversity of opinion. "I too love our country. I think our country is going in the very very wrong direction. I think there is a major silver lining of what's going on, in terms of what's going on bad in this country, and I think this is a moment of opportunity for America to be the country it can be."
The two hour debate was sponsored by Colorado Prager Fans, with a great deal of support from KNUS 710, and will be available on DVD in mid October. For more information please call John Gaudio at 303-870-1044, or send email to john@gaudio.com. Also, I'd love to hear your comments. | 
