Tourists are pleasantly surprised when New Yorkers act
as friendly and polite as the people back home in Maybury. However,
delegates to this month's Republican National Convention shouldn't
expect to be treated to our standard out-of-towner treatment. The
Republican delegates here to coronate George W. Bush are unwelcome
members of a hostile invading army. Like the hapless saps whose blood
they sent to be spilled into Middle Eastern sands, they will be given
intentionally incorrect directions to nonexistent places. Objects will
be thrown in their direction. Children will call them obscene names.
They will not be greeted as liberators. Well aware that it is barren
soil for their party's anti-urban, anti-immigrant, anti-feminist,
overtly racist ideology, Republican leaders have wisely avoided New
York City as a convention site for the past 150 years. [more ]
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