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A Winning Message: Bring the Troops Home, Bust the Banksters, Democratize the Economy
Jim Hightower and Granny D. Haddock at Fighting Bob Fest in Baraboo, Wisconsin
- When the message is muscular, the enthusiasm is there -
BARABOO, WISCONSIN — Decrying the excesses of big banks and Wall Street speculators, the Rev. Jesse Jackson told more than 7,000 cheering progressives at a county fairgrounds in rural Wisconsin Saturday that: “There is a contest for the soul of America.
Urged on by the crowd that had gathered for Fighting Bob Fest, the annual progressive chautauqua on the Sauk County Fairgrounds in this central Wisconsin community, the civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate declared that America would have to choose between being of a country where a tiny elite controls the vast majority of wealth or one where the great mass of Americans have a chance to survive and thrive.
“We cannot subsidize bankers and leave people homeless on the streets of America,” Jackson said. “It’s time for a change!”
“We will fight back!” chanted the crowd, which packed the grandstand and field for one of the largest Bob Fest gatherings in the nine-year history of the event.
For Democratic strategists who worry about an “enthusiasm gap” in this year’s mid-term election season, Jackson offered the antedote. His adamant address had thousands of people — many of them from rural and smalltown Wisconsin — on their feet and cheering. And this year’s Fighting Bob Fest drew more than twice as many people as a highly publicized and expensively promoted “Tea Party” event — which featured television personalies, “Joe the Plumber” and Congressman Paul Ryan, R-Janesville — held the same day in Racine, Wisconsin.
The enthusiastic response for Jackson’s populist speech offered a reminder that there is no enthusiasm gap. There’s a message gap.
See John Nichols at The Nation.
Short URL: http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=49070
Posted by Yanira Farray on Sep 13 2010, With 0 Reads, Filed under Corruption, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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This from a know nothing, do nothing democrat. He is from Chicago and I rest my case when the matter of corruption comes up. The republicians are stealing so much, there is not enough left for the KN’s, DN’s.
Thank you for the good slogan and message. That’s it!
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At least someone is talking from his heart. Maybe that’s why Rev. Jesse Jackson didn’t win the presidency. Don’t worry everyone can be corrupted. But at least he’s saying the truth.
What? “[Jackson's] adamant address had thousands of people — many of them from rural and smalltown Wisconsin — on their feet….”
Sure, “many of them from rural and smalltown Wisconsin!” But, I don’t think so. What an obtuse, embarrassing admission on the author’s part–throwing in that condescension about rural and smalltown Wisconsin–since undoubtedly 99% of the attendees were Univ of Wisconsin apparatchiks who took off work for a Marxist pep rally in some fairgrounds a short drive from the campus.
WTF…why am I not able to post here?
you just posted
Hey Col.jack. You know what you did not mention your republicans gave the house away to the jewish bankers here in america. and also your republican jewish fed chief POLSON when the clown Georgie Bush was President. remember from 2000 to 2008. the economy went under the toilet. also two worthless wars and over 5500 military dead and over 2 TRILLION DOLLARS SPENT on nothing but bull crap. money that could have went into the economy. YEA MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. military term for horse turds. now COL. the democrats were not in power or control when your idiot rebublicans screwed up america and left it in SHAMBLES.