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"Ah, but we're both ironists - right, John?" he said, without
irony...<br>
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On 9/17/10 6:23 PM, John W. wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:46 PM, C. G.
Estabrook <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">[No one in the political
class (20% of the pop.) has used the term "ruling class"
without irony since the last SDSer gave up and took a teaching
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<div>Au contraire. I have. (At least you always tell me I'm in
the 'political class'.) And you have, haven't you, Carl?</div>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">Something may be happening
here ... but do we know what it is?]</div>
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<div>Sure.</div>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Christine O’Donnell
Slams The ‘Anti-Americanism’ Of The ‘Ruling Class’<br>
September 17, 2010 4:55 PM<br>
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ABC’s Michael Falcone reports:<br>
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Speaking to an adoring crowd at the Values Voters Summit in
Washington on Friday, Delaware Senate candidate Christine
O’Donnell cast herself as an enemy of the “ruling class” and
took aim at the “anti-Americanism” that she said taints the
establishment.<br>
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“The small elite don’t get us. They call us wacky, they call
us wing nuts,” she said, “we call us ‘we the people.’”<br>
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O’Donnell who has been the focus of attention for her
surprising defeat of Rep. Mike Castle in the GOP Senate
primary in Delaware earlier this week as well as her outspoken
views on abstinence, condom use and masturbation, among other
issues, called herself a member of the “values movement” and a
defender of the Constitution (from which she quoted during her
remarks).<br>
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“Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture
our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize and
tear her down,” O’Donnell said. “In the diners and at the pig
roasts, in the town halls and the church halls I hear people
embrace for the first time a vibrant conversation about
American values. They reject the narrative that’s been imposed
on them from the DC cocktail crowd.”<br>
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O’Donnell, who began her speech with a indictment of the Obama
administration -- a reoccurring theme at the event, organized
by the conservative Family Research Council -- said that the
“incremental assault on our freedoms, our values, our free
enterprise, our property rights our economic stability” had
gone on too long.<br>
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“We’ve watched the tentacles of big government weasel their
way into every part of our lives,” she said. “Bureaucrats and
politicians in Washington think they should decide what kind
of light bulb we use, what kind of toilets we flush, what kind
of car we drive.”<br>
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She added: “They’ll buy your teenage daughter an abortion but
they won’t let her buy a sugary soda in a school’s vending
machine.”<br>
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The Delaware Senate hopeful recalled events that shaped her
own political views, such as the fall of the Berlin wall, and
celebrated the spread of free enterprise, including the rise
of businesses like Walmart and Home Depot.<br>
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“Only in America could that happen,” O’Donnell said, adding:
“We saw what freedom can do. We saw what happens when people
have control over their own money, their property, their
labor, their ideas, their risk and their reward.”<br>
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O’Donnell also wove religious themes into her speech,
referring to “the shining city on the hill” and
“constitutional repentance.” Family Research Council official
Gil Merz who took the podium after O’Donnell finished speaking
implored the audience to pray for her: “This woman of faith is
going to be under severe attack.”<br>
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O’Donnell, who was played in and out of her speech to the tune
of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin,’” still has a tough road
ahead in her quest to capture the Senate seat. A recent
Public Policy Polling survey showed O'Donnell trailing her
Democrat opponent, Chris Coons, by 14 percentage points.<br>
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