Posted on 09/05/2006 7:10:43 AM PDT by yoe
THE charge against US senator Hillary Clinton is that she cannot keep the same position on an issue. She has faced that accusation on predictable, national subjects such as Iraq and taxes. As a story unfolding in Brooklyn reveals, the senator is also capable of turning on the smallest of items. Even, it seems, on a single patch of grass.
Brooklyn loves green things — recall the novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Yet the borough is chronically short of green. Brooklynites watched for decades as the bits of lawn around Manhattan’s Battery Park City spread north, so that now the West Side boasts a lengthy park along the Hudson River.
Brooklyn, too, needs another park, all agree, a waterside green space to run from the Manhattan Bridge to Atlantic Avenue. The big difference is over what sort of park.
Some planners back a modern strategy: let private projects on the waterfront subsidise the maintenance of green space.
Central Park’s operating budget is $23m a year, so Brooklyn needs at least $15m. To get that, you need restaurants, hotels or blocks of flats.
Proposals for Brooklyn’s piers include 1200 high-end condominiums. Tax breaks, it is assumed, must be traded to secure construction.
But some Brooklynites want an old-fashioned park, the kind you fund out of state, city or borough coffers. These traditionalists charge that a development with thousands of condos is not truly a park but rather, as the Sierra Club put it, something undertaken “in the interests of real estate developers”.
One of the last places where the feisty old American left thrives is Brooklyn. The park activists are the kind of people Clinton herself worked with in the 1960s — her old mentor was the slum agitator Saul Alinsky. Which may be why the senator rallied to their side ………
... the life long Yankee fan (Bronx Bombers) doesn't know much about Brooklyn...[sarc]
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That FAKE sign should follow her everywhere she goes.
Another sign that needs to turn up at her appearances. Geez, the choices are unlimited. She is very fertile ground for creative signs. At least her campaign will be fun.
That woman has never had any sense of style......any sense period.
When either Clinton has ever been faced with a choice of doing what is right versus doing what is good for them politically, which one do they always choose?
And considering Dan Rather's "Fake But Accurate", perhaps Hillary's sign should read "Fake Butt Acrid".
LOL. I wonder if Alinsky had that printed on his business cards? "Saul Alinsky: Slum Agitator."
I used to live in Brooklyn. Brooklyn was a good place. I hope it still is.
They Bought that idea that I was a Yankees fan. They are easier to dupe than those in Arkansaw. All I had to do was wave the liberal flag and I've got them hook-line and sinker.
/Sarcasm OFF
The nun and the hun!
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