Snotty Young Delegates

[SoDesuKa]

It's fortunate that this is the last night of the convention. I don't think New York can tolerate much more of the traffic tie-ups, the mass arrests, or the way Republicans have lorded it over us. Walking in midtown, we passed young delegates on their way to Madison Square Garden. Maybe their supercilious manner is a way of compensating for the fact that they can't move about the city without demonstrators shouting in their faces.

Still, I'm enough of an egalitarian to know when people think they're superior to the common horde. My friend Vaughan who was walking with me, commented, "I just want to yell at those people!"

We're getting the domestic version of the attitude Americans project throughout the world. The young delegates weren't smirking like Bush, but there was something way too self-assured about the way they carried themselves. New York is not sorry to see them leave.

[patrice]

1. New York is Real; They Aren't .............n/t

[calico1]

2. New York should fumigate and disinfect as soon

as they are gone!

[realisticphish]

3. i think they should fumigate

while they are still there...anyone have a fume tent big enough for the Gardens?


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[hadrons]

4. they're also chickenhawks too ...

Young Repubs. support Iraq war, but not all are willing to join the fight

NEW YORK - Young Republicans gathered here for their party's national convention are united in applauding the war in Iraq, supporting the U.S. troops there and calling the U.S. mission a noble cause.

But there's no such unanimity when they're asked a more personal question: Would you be willing to put on the uniform and go to fight in Iraq?

In more than a dozen interviews, Republicans in their teens and 20s offered a range of answers. Some have friends in the military in Iraq and are considering enlisting; others said they can better support the war by working politically in the United States; and still others said they think the military doesn't need them because the U.S. presence in Iraq is sufficient.

"Frankly, I want to be a politician. I'd like to survive to see that," said Vivian Lee, 17, a war supporter visiting the convention from Los Angeles,
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"I physically probably couldn't do a whole lot" in Iraq, said Tiffanee Hokel, 18, of Webster City, Iowa, who called the war a moral imperative. She knows people posted in Iraq, but she didn't flinch when asked why she wouldn't go.
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Similarly, 20-year-old Jeff Shafer, a University of Pennsylvania student, said vital work needs to be done in the United States. There are Republican policies to maintain and protect and an economy to sustain, Shafer said. .......MORE........

www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9556221.htm