jjwhitejr2002@yahoo.com (JJWHITEJR) wrote in message news:<3ef9ae86.6638544@news.sf.sbcglobal.net>...
> Why the GOP Picked New York
>
> "In what looked like a mini dress rehearsal for the cacophony of
> dissent that's expected to hit the streets of New York City during
> next summer's GOP convention, nearly 3,000 demonstrators gathered on
> Seventh Avenue to protest President Bush as he presided over a
> $2,000-a-plate fundraiser inside midtown's Sheraton Hotel on Monday,"
> the Village Voice reports:
>
> The folks on the street seemed to have little trouble connecting the
> issues. Antiwar placards demanding "Where are the Weapons of Mass
> Destruction?" and "End King Geoge's Reign of Terror!" jostled freely
> with pro-choice banners and signs denouncing Bush's "War on Women."
> Many in the crowd said they were outraged that the Republican party
> continues to invoke the attacks of 9/11 as a rallying cry for Bush's
> presidency. "I feel like Bush coming to New York is especially
> hypocritical because he's done nothing for this city," said Sarah
> Beretczki, a 29-year-old illustrator from Brooklyn who sported a sign
> that read, "My Bush Sheds Its Own Blood."
>
> We saw some of these people riding the subway Monday night, and it
> makes us understand why the Republican Party chose New York as the
> site of its convention. No one pays much attention to protests of a
> mere fund-raiser, but during the convention TV crews will be unable to
> resist them--thus treating voters across the country to images of
> Bush's opposition as a bunch of extremists and freaks.
>
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If that's why they chose New York, they're even worse than I could
have imagined. Every single time I think something half-way decent
about Bush, one of his supporters comes along and destroys it.

Dopey me, I thought the Repugs might have picked NY because of 9/11
and also that they wanted to bring some money to that poor city. The
city is having a very hard time of it economically since then.

Thanks for setting me straight.

Regards,
Joe