[lbo-talk] deliberative democracy

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Mar 20 06:26:14 PDT 2008


[from a NYT vox pop piece on Johnstown, Pa., Michael Yates's former stomping grounds]

<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/us/politics/20penn.html? _r=1&st=cse&sq=johnstown&scp=1&oref=slogin>

Peter Contacos, 42, the fourth generation of his family to own and operate Coney Island Lunch, a downtown Johnstown business that survived two floods and the loss of thousands of regular customers when Bethlehem Steel eliminated 15,000 jobs in the 1970s and ’80s, will not vote for Senator Barack Obama, “because his name is Barack Hussein Obama — case closed.” Mr. Contacos, an avid hunter who proudly displays pictures of himself with a magnificently maned lion he killed in Botswana, said he considered Mr. Obama “a terrorist.”



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