A McCain Outpost in Blue Park Slope
Hey, don’t assume that Park Slope will go blue on November 4th. Four brownstones on 11th Street are adorned with McCain signs (though residents had to travel to New Jersey to get them). Writes the NY Times, “The election district that includes 11th Street has 643 registered voters: 51 of them Republicans, 452 Democrats, 23…
Hey, don’t assume that Park Slope will go blue on November 4th. Four brownstones on 11th Street are adorned with McCain signs (though residents had to travel to New Jersey to get them). Writes the NY Times, “The election district that includes 11th Street has 643 registered voters: 51 of them Republicans, 452 Democrats, 23 in other parties and 117 who did not list a party. That breakdown is echoed by the overwhelmingly Democratic makeup of Assembly District 52, as well as that of Brooklyn, which voted 79 percent for Senator John Kerry in 2004.” The McCain supporters are old school Slopers, writes the Times: residents from long before the Manhattan exodus who say the block was full of Roman Catholics and firemen when they arrived. But donkeys and elephants alike seem to be getting along: old and new, Obama and McCain-lovers. As one Democratic neighbor said about his neighbor’s signs, “To me, that says the person’s possibly open to some dialogue.
An Outpost in the Blue Sea of Brooklyn [NY Times]
Photo by moralesdirect.
Dave, you beat me to the grocery store pet peeve, in addition to those about to go through airport security who wait until the last minute to find their boarding passes and passports.
fsrq…i couldn’t agree more with the taxi analogy…as well as people who wait until they are told the final amount in the grocery store checkout before they start to dig around for their money. Apparently you and I aren’t as far apart as I thought.
Obama’s “shifting of wealth” as he himself put it to Joe the Plumber, will be the hammer that turns our current recession into a major depression.
Despite Obama’s grand utopian dreams, folks with money are the ones who hire those without money. And he has the nerve to brag that his tax increases will only apply to companies that make over $250k a year, as if everybody works at a corner deli or something. It’s a load of crap.
It’s funny. I’m a Democrat and was equally sickened when Bush Jr. was elected both times.
Right wing fanatics and left wing fanatics are no different. It’s a national disaster that Hillary lost.
McCain may be old and Palin may not be too bright, but they’re both a hell of a lot closer to the center than Obama is.
A year or two from now, you folks will be regretting jumping on the Messiah bandwagon bigtime, and I’m not even talking about those of you will will be unemployed.
ditto, thanks for the compliment (sincerely). I just get riled up when someone boils it down to “Obama will raise my taxes”. I think it is selfish, yes selfish, to boil down your voting decision to that. And even if one chooses to be selfish, higher taxes can ultimately be used for the greater good, which will likely benefit the taxpayer in the end. Moreover, as another poster pointed out, do we really think McCain isn’t going to raise taxes? Look at countries with higher personal and business tax rates, such as Canada. To me, the standard of living there for all citizens far surpasses the U.S., as clearly does their image in the eyes of the rest of the world.
Democrats and republicans are douches thats for sure.
People who park cars taking up two spots instead of one. That’s douchey nonpareil.
What about propper grammar, punctuation and capitalization?
How about people who use the phrase “hate on” instead of the word hate. Thats douchey.
oh also people who cant spell