Thursday Blogwrap
Brighton Beach. Photo by J Blough. Marriages From a Scene [CityRoom] Bergen Street Sinkhole Update [Gowanus Lounge] Favorite Tailors and Seamstresses [Brooklyn Based] How Not the Get Beat Up in the Hood [Greenpointers] New Brooklyn Book Spins Stuckey’s AY Account [AY Report] Long Island Restaurant Still Closed, Still Missed [McBrooklyn] Will Gentrification Keep Burg Condos…
Brighton Beach. Photo by J Blough.
Marriages From a Scene [CityRoom]
Bergen Street Sinkhole Update [Gowanus Lounge]
Favorite Tailors and Seamstresses [Brooklyn Based]
How Not the Get Beat Up in the Hood [Greenpointers]
New Brooklyn Book Spins Stuckey’s AY Account [AY Report]
Long Island Restaurant Still Closed, Still Missed [McBrooklyn]
Will Gentrification Keep Burg Condos From Glowing in the Dark? [Curbed]
here we go mixing religion and race.
If I remember, the Republican party got a large part of the Hispanic vote. The majority of Jews still (yea!) vote democratic. I can’t remember hearing one way or another about how Asians will vote but I think that there are so many other issues involved, the Asian vote can’t really be called jst on the basis of household income.
In any case, when a republican senator can call Obama “uppity” and the party tries to claim there’s no racial overtones, it’s no surprise they are such a monolithic group.
Well non-whites are a pretty big group. Take asians – they have the highest household income of any group so i’m sure plenty vote republican. If you mean blacks and hispanics, I confess I don’t know the stats.
What’s subtle about what I said is that it meant to be ironic. Too subtle, I guess, mea culpa.
The point is, race does “matter” in the sense that Obama’s candidacy is a historic first, and says a lot about the decrease in racial awareness. But polls show that, what, 5% still would never vote for a black?
The fact is that I also think he’ll make a great president, (certainly an articulate one) and I agree with his positions.
“Nor is their demographic middle or lower income people, people of color or small business owners.”
“You say that – but thats exactly the people who provide the extra votes needed that got them into power.”
Not non-whites, surely? I believe I saw a statistic that Bush only got 12% of their votes? And there were hardly any non-whites in the convention.
The same woman made the argument that she won’t vote for Obama because McCain is so much cuter. And another woman posted on another blog that Michelle Obama would be a terrible first lady because she is too big and “amazonian” (her word, not mine). these are important issues to the Republicans obviously.
bxgrl, I couldn’t stomach to read that! But you’re exactly right. Palin’s speech was written and delivered with fire but there was no substance and I hope she and McCain get trounced in the debates. That said, I thought Kerry manhandled Bush in the 2004 debates and, remarkably, some people thought Bush held his own. Yes, they’re jealous of Palin’s looks just like Iraqis, Afghans, et. al. hate us because they’re jealous of our lifestyle. It’s such a twisted lie it’s amazing people believe it. Meanwhile, people aren’t attacking Canada. For some reason they aren’t jealous of their equally comfortable or “free” lives.
“Good looking” is always a relative term with politicians. Its been applied to JFK and Bill Clinton too. Relative to other politicos – yes, but relative to the population in general…..
dittoburg- I hope we don’t do that this November. McCain as President doesn’t frighten me nearly as much as Palin as veep.
want to have a good time biff- go to some of the blogs on the Washington Post. whew! Pro Palin and McCain have posted not a single issue- it’s all about insulting Obama and Biden on looks, personality, careers. To be sure they’re giving as good as they get but while most of them are making points about issues, the GOPers are carrying on about how great Palin delivered her speech, how many zingers, etc.One person is making the point the she thinks dems re jealous because Palin is good looking (oh of course. And that makes me forget all the men we’ve lost in Iraq and as of today a 6.1% unemployment rate?)