Comments on: Down ballot: Fossella headed towards exit, fields set in NC and IN

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:04:00 +0000

Foleygate to the rescue! Realize that repressed sexual deviants always are the loudest critics of other peoples’ private lives. McSame unfortunately has already been exposed for affairs, but we can always hope for a tightly wound VP with a penchance for little boys.

By: Robert_V

Robert_V — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:10:00 +0000

Democrats will do just fine in that district. As NYC goes, NY-13 is a conservative district, Archie Bunker comes to mind, LOL. But the right democrat will win there. On the other hand, what is it with these “family value” republicans that have so much trouble keeping their peckers inside their pant? The congressman just announced that he has a three year old daughter that he fathered with an Alexandria VA woman. You have to wonder what else can go wrong with the GOP in 2008!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:11:00 +0000

Zoot-politics at the lowest level, that of dealing in deep rooted bigotry, has no logic or reason. It is basically playing upon the emotional weakness of the victims. Those who would flip to McCain simply out of bigotry can not be reasoned out of that choice. They only respond to fear. Making McCain out to be non-christian or jewish would give pause to them. I don’t think we could use muslim. Athiest would boost his electability. I think we can risk insulting some jews. It’s a dirty business. It’ll be at least another generation or two before all institutionalized bigotry (religion) is put to rest.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:02:00 +0000

Mark’s nasty personal attacks are exactly what Taniel prohibited on this blog. I think you know Taniel that this type of vitriol is the root of the problem here. Delete it or become it.

By: jaxx raxor

jaxx raxor — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:59:00 +0000

The idea that Italian Americans are generally racist just doesn’t vibe for me. I don’t know of any historical references that would make Italian americans more racist then other Whites in NYC or other states in the North East. I believe that racism today is more about geographical region (i.e the deep South) rather than through white ethnic groups. I think this is epecially true because Whites don’t really organize themsevles into strong ethnic groups in the present day compared to the early 20th century and before.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:48:00 +0000

Jaxx, Zoot and all other intelligent and thoughtful posters:

You guys have great input.

My proposal:

don't feed the anonymous "trolls". They are bottom feeders without enough guts to show themselves and are narrow-minded hit and run artists.

You are wasting your breath with them. They write utterly stupid and illogical things that show that they either a.) were dropped on their heads as children or b.) are victims of massive alien anal probes in their spaceships.

So, forget 'em. They ain't worth it.

Taniel: please turn on moderation for this excellent website of yours.

By: st paul sage

st paul sage — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:34:00 +0000

the likely democratic candidate is dominic recchia. i don’t think he’s going to have a very hard time proving he’s an italian. the district votes more democratic than republican in federal races. and it may be the most gop district in NYC, but that’s kind like being the fastest tortoise.

as a strong dem, i’m excited by this prospect. and as an italian american from NJ, i call BS on anyone who says that all italian americans are dumb racists.

By: zoot

zoot — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:32:00 +0000

Anonymous 8:23, the first post had two different thoughts - that the Dems would have troubles in Fossella’s district, and that Obama was highly unpopular in NYC. S/he may or may not be correct on Staten Island, but that doesn’t translate to NYC as a whole. The demographics are quite dissimilar.

Anon 8:58, I agree that racism is an issue in a number of populations, but it’s impossible right now to tell how wide-spread that problem is. Sure, you might avoid it with HRC, but look at the other negatives she brings with her. The Washington Times for example is re-exhuming Whitewater today with an in-depth review of personal papers that Sam Dash’s estate turned over to the Library of Congress, much of which was never made public, and they’re very disturbing - new baggage, not old baggage.

Any BTW, would you care to explain your comment about painting McCain as “…a fake Christian, a Jew…?” That has a rather unpleasant ring to it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:58:00 +0000

Jaxx it’s not the republicanism as much as the racism issue. If the Democrats put up a nice Italian gentleman that doesn’t accept any help or endorsements of a black guy, he’ll be fine. Italians and blacks are diametrically opposed due to ancient geographical disputes. It’s like the jewish/muslim thing only more recent and less theological. The Italians actually salted the fields of Carthage to wipe out their civilization. Seriously hateful sentiments there. The rise of a black Democratic party in NYC made Rudy Giuliani switch to the republican side. The same old sentimental hatred is going to put many Democrats nationwide on McSame’s side, regardless of the obviously detrimental policies. To prevent this, we’re going to paint McSame as a fake christian, a jew, to stave off mass defection. It’s a dangerous balancing act that we’d avoid with Clinton.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:57:00 +0000

Anon 08:33: Staten Island has a population of 500,000+/-. Even if the were all “goodfellows” Obama is unlikly to lose more than an extra 20,000 votes to McCain. He will easily make this up with extra votes in Harlem. Clinton may have done better there but it doesn’t matter. He may lose Staten Island but he is not going to lose NY state to McCain in the GE. Look at the big picture.