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]
“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. As has been suggested, people often vote against their interests – e.g. people often vote for the income group that they aspire to be in, not they one they are actually in.
Oops- forgot to add that the Republican Party is trying to play her up as “everyman.” And she is so not.
Obviously race should not be relevant. The unfortunate reality is it will be to many voters, just as Palin’s gender will be. That aside, I thought Palin took some (albeit not unexpected) cheap shots at Obama. I’m not saying Obama is perfect, but the difference in their class (as in refinement) was obvious, especially after Obama asked the news outlets not to report on Palin’s personal life and to leave her family out of the voting decision.
well, I am white so it wasn’t an epithet. It was a reference was to the fact that the Republican party is not the party of diversity and they seem quite proud of it. Nor is their demographic middle or lower income people, people of color or small business owners.
But they have no problem putting Palin out there as some icon of women’s rights, blue color workers and environmentalism. None of which she is. In my opinion.
Yea, its relevant if the race of the candidate is important to you. But in the end CMU stating it is relevant is no more acceptable than a white “Republican conventioneer” stating Obama’s race is relevant (in their decision making). If you think its ok to be subtly anti-white CMU, you’re wrong.
I’ve noticed that the guy with the funny Muslim name looks a wee bit dark.
As opposed to 98% of the Republican conventioneers.
So it may be relevant.
But, bxgrl, is Palin “rich?”…not (yet) by McCain’s 5-million-a-year standards, I believe?
What has “white” got to do with it? You mention it like its an epithet.
Read somewheres this morning that a lot of people are really turned off by the attack policy of McCain and Palin. It may be the country is sick and tired of the politics of attack/ distraction and face it, when you’re worried about losing your house and your job, or you can’t pay your doctor bills, the fact that a rich white woman looks good in heels and can dress a moose, is the last thing you care about. Or should care about.
Anyway- that’s the hope I’m holding on to for November.
That chica is still hot.