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.
cobblehiller: “I’m not sure I have time to digest the entire history of the world in time for the apocalypse…”
Sorry, I’m speaking in hyperbole when I say apocalypse. I don’t believe the world will end. But America’s role as superpower global leader, global cop, global chauffer will end soon, likely in the next 20 years.
I’m not a bunkerist either. But I do live each day, not seeing much life past 20 years or so. Not in America, thats for sure.
I’ll be with you in the cheese line.
; )
“outrageously inflammatory and provocative” Hmmm, I see some faulty logic in this statement as it stands let alone how it relates to what Biff posted..
Cobblehiller – all empires fail. Thats the gist of it.
Biff, you’re being outrageously inflammatory and provocative. You’re reflective of what’s wrong with politics and this blog I’ll choose to ignore you.
Biff – thats not illogical. Moretea doesn’t want HIS taxes raised. He’d rather get everyone to share the tax burden. And why not – after all, Bush couldn’t have got in for two terms if it wasn’t for a whole big bunch of middle income earners voting him in.
rh…I also live down in Philadelphia and rural PA. As an aside, NY is my legal residence is now Kings Vounty and I just got my first jury summons. that’s gotta be far worse than a colonostomy I assume.
I see a lot more Obama posters in both Philly (expected) but also rural Bucks County. Maybe as you go further west in PA you run into that analogy “Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in the middle!!”
“Listen, I don’t expect folks to pull out a violin for me but I pay ALOT in taxes already….and to increase them while everything else I pay increases (RE Taxes also) to pay for Iraqi infrastructure while we have bridges falling here is tough for me to swallow.”
Agreed. But if your #1 concern is wasting our money in Iraq, the whole argument about taxes – as it relates to this election – becomes a moot point. Not that anyone will perform miracles in terms of our involvement in Iraq, but one candidate CLEARLY wants to leave and the other one CLEARLY wants to throw more good money after the bad. Again, if your argument is that we can’t trust anything a politician says, then we have nothing to discuss, as nothing can be established with any amount of certainty. By that logic there’s no reason to feel strongly about either candidate and we shouldn’t be wasting out time by posting our arguments here.
yes, it was expensive to resolve that but probably worth it.
Uhm, PS, if you and What are correct, aside from work and other things I need to do to maintain on a daily basis, I’m not sure I have time to digest the entire history of the world in time for the apocalypse…why don’t you break it down for the ‘great unwashed’* among us?
Or are you/the fear mongers hoarding government cheese and walling yourself into your bunkers? Aren’t things bad enough? What are you doing to help warn or protect your fellow Brooklynites? Will you be out on the cheese line making sandwiches for people?
*that would be me.