Battleground North Carolina: Democratic Women Fired Up!Michael Carmichael - HuffPo
Posted: 10/23/11 08:08 PM ET
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But, the day would belong to Gene Nichol, the outspoken professor of law at UNC, who delivered a riveting Jeremiad rippling with penetrating punchlines orchestrated against a leitmotif of bitterly incisive invective skewering the Republican radicalism now infecting the American electorate.
Gauging his audience like a shrewd football coach in a pre-game locker room, Nichol broke the emotional ice with a joke, "I saw Mary Chapin Carpenter at Memorial Hall the other night. She reported her favorite bumper-sticker: 'Palin-Bachmann 2012 - It's a No-Brainer!'" The crowd burst into peals of laughter.
Ripping right into the heart of the matter of Republican radicalism, Nichol sallied forth into oratorical battle:
And when they come together, for their version of debate and discourse; the crowd boos a soldier returning from Iraq because he's gay; they applaud the idea of letting Americans die unattended in hospital emergency rooms; and they cheer the efficiency of Texas' express lane for executions - a lane open only to the poor and marginalized.
Nichol's audience broke into applause; then he darkened his oratorical tone to lament the moral corruption of Wall Street and the current Republican front-runner, Herman Cain:
And despite clear proof that thievery, criminality and unyielding greed on Wall Street have directly caused the loss of at least eight million jobs in the last three years - for which we've bailed them out, and they've used the money to pay themselves obscene bonuses - a debate crowd this week cheered the declaration that fourteen million unemployed Americans 'should blame themselves, not Wall Street.' I'm not making this up!
Striking a chord with the audience of progressive Democratic women, Nichol zeroed in on the specter of Republican prejudice:
In the Congress, Republicans are so completely and unalterably focused on assuring that a brilliant young black man NOT be re-elected president, that they would say, over and over again, to millions and millions of uninsured, unemployed, uncompensated, unfed, un-housed, uneducated, unsafe, and now unbelieving Americans: 'Too bad,' your desperation is not as important as our intransigence, our pretend ideology; our belief that the only thing wrong with America is those at the bottom have too much and those at the top don't have enough. We've planted our flag. There we'll stand.
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