[Peace-discuss] Jonesing

[E. Wayne Johnson]

People will come out to vote who usually stay home.

On 9/18/2010 8:01 AM, David Green wrote:
> If one knows a little about Delaware (I lived there for 5 years), one 
> understands this as a significant event in populist 
> (anti-establishment) terms. Castle, the defeated, has been Governor or 
> Congressman, back and forth, for decades without serous challenge, 
> just as Biden and William Roth were, gaining power with seniority as 
> if they were senators from the old segregationist South. The state is 
> the epitome of bipartisan blandness, and it's assumed that electoral 
> politics is above any populist passion. But as Cockburn points out 
> today, it's a very corrupt state due to the credit card banks, and to 
> a certain extent DuPont. The population is supposed to feel grateful 
> to have two (usually powerful) Senators for a small population, and to 
> have no sales tax to attract consumers from adjacent states (MD, PA, 
> NJ, anyone going down I-95 between Maine and Florida.) That Senate 
> seat was supposed to rightfully belong to Castle--explaining the reaction.
> DG
>
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> *From:* C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
> *To:* Peace-discuss List <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> *Sent:* Fri, September 17, 2010 5:46:16 PM
> *Subject:* [Peace-discuss] Jonesing
>
> [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.
> Something may be happening here ... but do we know what it is?]
>
>      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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