[Peace-discuss] Jonesing

[C. G. Estabrook]

  "Ah, but we're both ironists - right, John?" he said, without irony...


On 9/17/10 6:23 PM, John W. wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:46 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu 
> <mailto: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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