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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That's good.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Then why do they care what Europe thinks about them?
Is he that uninformed? Or is he simply so arrogant that to him the third plane doesn't count as "a terrorist attack?" As you noted, it hit the Pentagon, which is in Virginia, which voted for Bush - BOTH times.
Without Philly, Bush would have won Pa.
Yeah, but put one of us "hillbillies" and a New Yorker out in the wilderness and see who survives.
I bet the gentlemen would find even Hillary too conservative to his taste? ;-)
Seriously speaking, urban professional rich middle-class-to-rich liberals is the dangerous lot. I don't worry much about average black/Hispanic/whoever Democrats and working class workers and farmers - they vote left but are not idelogical leftists. "Professionals" are different - they believe in socialism, post-modernism, cultural Marxism, secular material atheism to the point of faith. These are the same people who brought us gay marriage, GE food bans, organic food, "We-need-to-get-along" self-loathing mentaity. In Australia they call them "chardonnays" or short for "chardonnay socialists".
I got this article a few months ago that aptly describes this group:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1197319/posts
The suicide of the West (and affluent parts of East Asia) are all because of this group of leftists.
"They're just a different breed. Like the platypus."
That's hilarious!
Yeah, but they gave Kerry only 3 EVs, not 30.
You go girl!
LOL! I think I'm in love.
Congratulations! Give that lady(?) a kewpie doll AND a cigar!
"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.
His friend, Ms. Cohn, a native of Wisconsin who deals in art, contended that New Yorkers were not as fooled by Mr. Bush's statements as other Americans might be. "New Yorkers are savvy," she said. "We have street smarts. Whereas people in the Midwest are more influenced by what their friends say."
"They're very 1950's," she said of Midwesterners. "When I go back there, I feel I'm in a time warp."
What a bunch of elitest bass-turds! The assumption of ignorance (why do they always use the word "redneck"?)of anyone who didn't vote as they did is proof of their own lack of understanding. Further on in the article Dr. Joseph stated that people with greater skills go to big cities. WHAT A BUNCH OF HOOEY! Perhaps he didn't take into account the fact that many people enjoy living close to family and friends. 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.
That's my favorite word. Platypus. : )
Weird, I know...but then I was born in NYC....and lived & worked there for 5 years! Maybe that's why...Ugh! NEVER AGAIN!!! In the last election I was the ONLY person in my office to vote for W!! (at least the only one who would admit it, that is!)
When you have unthinking minority sheeples (educated and thinking blacks would not live there, I guess), coupled with the bureaucrat-diplomat-media complex I would be surprised if Bush got higher than this figure. (Remember the current crops of CIA and Dept of State people loathe him)
Ms whatsherface is wrong about isolation, btw. When humans live packed together like cattle, they become dependent on each other in very negative ways.
Further on in the article Dr. Joseph stated that people with greater skills go to big cities. WHAT A BUNCH OF HOOEY! Perhaps he didn't take into account the fact that many people enjoy living close to family and friends. 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.
Heck, in this age of intense economic competition, many of the Fortune 500 companies don't even have an office in New York. Besides, I like the 'burbs because I can enjoy the city amenities without the kooky social liberalism endemic in the city. I live in Auckland and live in a 'burb but I wouldn't dream of moving into inner city or ringer 'burbs with their liberal DINKs (double income no kids) yuppies.
OMG are these people delusional. They'd be funny if they weren't so tragic.
May the saints preserve us from these elite weenies and brain-dead followers from both coasts who are trying to European-ize and feminize Middle America.
Leni
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