William Jennings Bryan speech to the Democratic Convention in 1898:
The preface, in part, from History MAtters (web site): 

. . . The thirty-six-year-old former Congressman from Nebraska aspired to be 
the Democratic nominee for president, and he had been skillfully, but quietly, 
building support for himself among the delegates. His dramatic speaking style 
and rhetoric roused the crowd to a frenzy. The response, wrote one reporter, 
“came like one great burst of artillery.” Men and women screamed and waved 
their hats and canes. “Some,” wrote another reporter, “like demented things, 
divested themselves of their coats and flung them high in the air.” . . . 
I didn't vote for him either but I wish all of us a lot of luck.


-----Original Message-----
From: Shearon, Tim [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sun 1/18/2009 7:39 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] cohesiveness in D.C.
 

Paul- I'll consider sainthood if he (they!) manages to get the economy turned 
around! :) It still troubles me that for one of our political factions/parties 
to be "happy" the other has to be so abjectly miserable!! That the divide often 
seems so deep we can't even speak over it or past it. I do understand the 
psychology of it- perhaps that's what makes it all the more troubling. 
Tim
_______________________________
Timothy O. Shearon, PhD
Professor and Chair Department of Psychology
The College of Idaho
Caldwell, ID 83605
email: [email protected]

teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and 
systems

"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker



-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Brandon [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sun 1/18/2009 5:28 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] cohesiveness in D.C.
 
It's OK -- reality will set in sooner or later.
I did vote for him, but not for sainthood.

On Jan 18, 2009, at 6:17 PM, Beth Benoit wrote:

> What an amazing scene of people joining together to rejoice in such  
> a powerful current.  I have been in tears many times today.
>
> My husband pointed out that he felt a similar cohesiveness when he  
> went to NYC the day after 9/11 to help in the medical tent (he's a  
> physician).
>
> BUT the big difference was that 9/11 was mutual feeling about  
> tragedy.  Barack's inauguration is about hope.  What a powerful time!

Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota State University, Mankato
[email protected]


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