Al From appeared on Washington Journal this morning to promote DLC strategies. DLC’ers are urging Democrats to mount their asses against the coarse society here and evildoers abroad. This will require real sacrifice, America. “We need to increase our national forces by 100,000 troops and free up the National Guard for duty at home…” battling the coarse?
From revealed his coarse proclivities when a caller who identified herself as a “progressive populist” said the DLC was founded with money from a guy named “Coombe” (sp) in the John Birch Society. “That’s a lie. If you don’t know what you’re talking about you shouldn’t make accusations.” She may have had the details wrong but not the implication. If Al were any sort of real gentleman he’d have admitted what anyone with an internet connection can discover through Google.
Tom Vilsack, outgoing governor of Iowa and current chair of the DLC, defines “coarse”:
Third, we must stand firmly, side by side, with moms and dads who are anxious about the coarseness of society, concerned about the violence, the sex, and the hyper-commercialization that is bombarding their children. We must say to those moms and dads: “We are with you, we are going to help you, we are going to support you.”
We must do what it takes to protect children from those who prey on them. As the governor of Iowa, I am well aware of the exploding epidemic of methamphetamine in our country. It is an insidious poison. It is extraordinarily addictive, it is very inexpensive, it is easy to make, and it is pervasive in our country today. It robs children of the opportunity to even consider the American dream.
Here’s the coarse reality of American life and Vilsack the small town lawyer should know this. In America, if your parents have money you don’t go to jail when police officers pull your car over and you’ve been drinking, or you’re holding an ounce or two of your favourite illegal substance. Your records, not your life, are sent into the gov’t’s shredder. The American dream is making enough money to be above the law. The DLC promises to dig deeper pitfalls for the “coarse” and repave a path for the privileged. Smooth?