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've considered that much of the worldwide animus against the American right is because, overseas, the "right" is so often associated with racist policies.
In America, though, nothing could be further from the truth. Still, we have the left in America making the same kind of charges. Perhaps, because their own worldview is so, ah, "European"...
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Ms. Beverly and her cohorts in New York may not get much about Republican red, but she should at least get this much: If it weren't for our strong President and the equally strong backing we, his people, gave him, Ms. Beverly might be dodging frequent, if not daily terrorist bombs.
The vast majority of the men and women serving overseas in harms way to protect Ms. Beverly and her latte-drinking peers support this President. And another thing Ms. Beverly should note: they bleed red. Ms. Beverly hasn't seen another plane fly into a NYC skyscraper in over three years thanks to GWB and our men and women in uniform.
LOL BTTT
Pharmacies must be working overtime...
Can someone post that picture of the United States of Texas and Jesusland. I can't find it.
Does Wyoming contribute as much to the nation as New York, California or Texas?
Kitty Genovese
Don't be embarrassed. It's a universal failing. You'll find it in every small town, medium sized city, and burgenoning metropolis in America. Misconceptions abound about almost every part of the country. Except for California. It's all true. ;)
I'm saddened by what I feel is the obtuseness and shortsightedness of a good part of the country - the heartland," Dr. Joseph said. "This kind of redneck, shoot-from-the-hip mentality and a very concrete interpretation of religion is prevalent in Bush country - in the heartland."
"New Yorkers are more sophisticated and at a level of consciousness where we realize we have to think of globalization, of one mankind, that what's going to injure masses of people is not good for us," he said.
The guy is wrong, and we know he's wrong. However, there are pleny of stereotypes about urban dwellers that aren't true as well. I've met lots of people in the "heartland" who're just convinced that everyone in the cities is a criminal idiot.
I like it!
From my experience as a student from Kansas City going to school on Long Island (SUNY @ Stony Brook), Yes, they DO think that they're smarter than us. The certainly believe that they're better than us!
Mark
"None of the people who are likely to be hit by a terrorist attack voted for Bush."
What a fool! What does he think happened in Oklahoma City? Just because it was supposedly home grown terrorists doesn't make it any less terrorism! Terrorists can hit at any time and anywhere, that's why it is called terrorism Zito! By the way Oklahoma is a VERY RED state.
LOL. I remember when FEAR did that on SNL.
Smoking marijuana
Watching channel five
Got to get my strength up
In this struggle to survive
Everyone's an asshole
Everyone's a creep
I look out my window
And there's garbage in the streets
I live in the city
I breathe dirty air
I ride trains with b-boys
junkies, queens and squares
Everybody's hungry
I don't know what to do
I used to live on pizza
Now I live on Chinese food
I can't stand my neighbors
Screaming all the time
If I wasn't blasting Sister Ray
I could lose my mind
I live in the city
I breathe dirty air
I ride trains with b-boys
junkies, queens and squares
Safely someone's smiling
The fat man waits his turn
Soon he'll count his money
While the South Bronx slowly burns!
Get out for the children
Get your ass and run
Get out of this stinkin mess
To a safe suburban slum
I live in the city
I breathe dirty air
I ride trains with b-boys
junkies, queens and squares!
New York, New York
New York, New York
New York, New York
ARE YOU TAWKIN' TO ME!!!
SHhhhhh, people will know. Course, beans and rice will get old real quick.
When I was little, I always wondered why they didn't look like the little family in the ad. :)
LOL...good one :)
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