[Peace-discuss] Jonesing

[John W.]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:46 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:


> [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 job.
>

Au contraire.  I have.  (At least you always tell me I'm in the 'political
class'.)  And you have, haven't you, Carl?



> Something may be happening here ... but do we know what it is?]
>

Sure.




>      Christine O’Donnell Slams The ‘Anti-Americanism’ Of The ‘Ruling Class’
>      September 17, 2010 4:55 PM
>
> ABC’s Michael Falcone reports:
>
> 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.
>
> “The small elite don’t get us. They call us wacky, they call us wing nuts,”
> she said, “we call us ‘we the people.’”
>
> 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).
>
> “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.”
>
> 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.
>
> “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.”
>
> 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.”
>
> 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.
>
> “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.”
>
> 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.”
>
> 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.
>
>
> http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/09/odonnell-slams-the-anti-americanism-of-the-ruling-class.html
>
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