Reading Response

As I strolled around cyber space this week, searching for interesting news stories that grabbed my attention and shook my inner self, I stumbled upon an update on Christine O’Donnell and the open senatorial seat in Delaware. Typically an open seat wouldn’t grab an overt amount of attention, yet there are a number of contributing factors that make this particular instance so damn interesting. The first is that this is the first legitimate time a member of the “Tea Party” was elected in a primary to run in a major election. The second major point is that the person running goes by the name Christine O’Donnell, a relative unknown in the current political sphere, yet her in experience and past words or causing a stir on the political front. It is not often that a candidate speaks about masturbation or her experiences of dabbling with witchcraft. Typically references like this are off setting to the public, but on top of that Christine O’Donnell speaks about her religious views as a major part of her life, there was an entire CNN article dedicated to how faith and her religious beliefs allowed her to pursue politics and be so successful this far in her political career.
I think its pretty interesting to start to uncover different types of information that makes a candidate to unique, what truly grabs my attention is the manifestation of the Tea Party its self. I didn’t think it was legal for Sarah Palin to team up with such peoples as Rush Limbaugh and create some type of conservative but not super party that wants change this country. Well alright that’s not exactly what’s happening ( a stretch of the truth to say the least) but American politics are certainly at a cross road and because of that this type of (bad word) is happening. As I connected the seems of the three main articles I focused on wish raised from slighting hating on the party in the Huffington post views too speaking about how it developed because of Obama not doing a good job—CNN. Never the less these three stories focus on the time period in which we find ourselves in. it is interesting to see how this Delaware election will end up effecting the politics of our nation—one this if for sure though, if O’Donnell is election. It is not a good sign for our country.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/29/christine-odonnell-talks-faith-and-politics/?iref=allsearch

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wes-isley/christine-odonnell-witche_b_732568.html

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/09/29/bunch.tea.party/index.html?iref=NS1