{news} Re: [DeshefyForCongress] Scott Deshefy's stump speech audiofile

Thu Oct 9 09:17:28 EDT 2008

Everything is strung together on the thread of hope. That's what we've been
missing. Our moral environment, corrupted by empire and viciously
competitive capitalism, substitutes victory for hope, but no country can
survive on mere victory because that's always just the flip side of someone
else's defeat. Horrified by the sleezy implications of victory and depressed
by witnessing the victory of sleezeballs, we've held back from doing what
Scott is doing. But Scott has it right: he has actual hope. Government is
supposed to serve the commonwealth, so competition can never be its basis,
but always has to be only a consequence of a unifying force: actual hope for
a common future. Lots of politicians--like Fiorella LaGuardia and
LaFollette--had that before World War II, and lots of them, like Kennedy and
Humphrey, could still remember and imitate through the 1960's and even until
Carter's fall. The last time I heard it was in some of Mario Cuomo's
speeches. A fake version of it came back with Clinton. But I think Scott's
got the real thing again. I listen to that speech and I can recognize the
reasons for the rhetorical forms of classic speeches. Scott clearly
understands the reasons for each of them because everything is in the right
place whereas in other stump speeches I hear they're just jumbled up at
random. He uses them as he does because together they convey actual hope.

I hope we can all learn from you, Scott!
Richard
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:36 AM, David Bedell <dbedellgreen at hotmail.com>wrote:

>   Listen to Scott Deshefy's October 4 stump speech in Storrs:
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> http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/29576
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> David Bedell
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