Posted on 11/03/2004 7:39:23 PM PST by Lorianne
triking a characteristic New York pose near Lincoln Center yesterday, Beverly Camhe clutched three morning newspapers to her chest while balancing a large latte and talked about how disconsolate she was to realize that not only had her candidate, John Kerry, lost but that she and her city were so out of step with the rest of the country.
"Do you know how I described New York to my European friends?" she said. "New York is an island off the coast of Europe."
Like Ms. Camhe, a film producer, three of every four voters in New York City gave Mr. Kerry their vote, a starkly different choice than the rest of the nation. So they awoke yesterday with something of a woozy existential hangover and had to confront once again how much of a 51st State they are, different in their sensibilities, lifestyles and polyglot texture from most of America. The election seemed to reverse the perspective of the famous Saul Steinberg cartoon, with much of the land mass of America now in the foreground and New York a tiny, distant and irrelevant dot.
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I wonder if NY-ers have any clue how we think about them. Self-absorbed, almost like a group of people isolated in a small mirror lined room their entires lives thinking that the small room is the whole universe.
If you have ever put milk in your coffee you have had a latte.
"I just had a great idea! Starbucks should have a special on disconsolatte !"
I ran out of breath I laughed so hard. What a winner!
See my post #122.
Not necessary, or didn't you notice - W won.
I wish
Their angst is due to the arogance of the DEMS assumption that a large turnout would ensure their re-election. Like kids waiting for Santa Claus to deliver Christmas, the great electoral turnout brought them only coal and ashes. Boo hoo.
It's a miracle that the New Yorkers are even paying attention to what the rest of the country is doing.
We jave a lot of Irish welfare = where the winning party gets to hand out patronage jobs by the millions. Also the welfare clientelle are numerically greater in the inner cities and they are part of the Irish welfare extablishment.
Forty years of entrenched unionism and welfare - all due to the democrat party has developed a sub-class of loyal yellow dog, glass crawling democrat voters in the US cities and universities.
New York City is a hub of Handouts. You see it with every newsstand on the corners, you see it with every taxi ride, you see it at the restaurants. The capitol of the world for getting something for doing nothing is their goal. So why be surprised that they want more, More, MOre, and MORE for no
cost to them. They get about 50% more federal money than they pay in. So what's new about New York Citty.... k2afe
Is Snooky's Pub a gay bar?
I hate to even admit that I was born in that city. It's the American capital of liberal elitism now and the only reason we went to their aid is because we have a Christian compassion that liberal elites will never comprehend and certainly never muster on their own.
"Many choose not to go to the city because they don't want the ultra-high cost of living and the lifestyle of the city. That doesn't make the midwest ignorant, that makes us discerning."
I'm a pretty educated guy. Why is it though that whenever I hear our more "open", "sophisticated" and "cosmopolitain" countrymen speak I am taken back to my sophmore year in college? The sophmore year is the year when, with one year of higher education under the belt, college kids begin to feel themselves omniscient. They go home for vacation and scoff and sneer at their parents ignorance and backwardness and when they get back they laugh with their friends about how stupid the people in their hometown are.
It's only about five or ten years later, after having the stuffing knocked out of them by real life, that their arrogance dies a bitter death and they recognize the basic honor and goodness and wisdom of mom and dad.
New York is the nation's eternal sophmore class. I wish they would grow up.
It is absolutely amazing to me after seeing that huge smouldering hile in the ground at World Trade Center Plaza how easily New Yorkers forgot what Bush did for then -- the consoling, the rallying of the nation around New York, the $20 Billion federal GIFT!
We do the same for most foreign countries. How many of the other foreign countries we have helped have shown any gratitude?
Consider that they're mindset is to try to 'understand' and 'relate to' their captures. They'll surrender in a heartbeat.
In fact they already have. That's why they voted for they're philosophical kin; whom they saw as a globalist that would reach out to the enemy and consort with him. Better to surrender than fight is their creed.
I make my own Maxwell House – about $0.06 a cup.
If I want a latte or some other fancy coffee I use my cappuccino machine for about a dime a cup.
I can even add a touch of Ireland if I want.
thats a keeper. :)
From now on I shall describe NYers as stupid. They look at the site of the WTC and vote for Kerry. They have a huge Jewish population and yet they don't support Bush. They live piled on top of one another and think it's normal. They live in a great city yet most adults have never been to the Statue of Liberty. Yet they think we are the dumb ones. ............ S T U P I D !
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