December 17 [2003] - A CBS News/New York Times poll of likely Democratic primary voters shows Howard Dean getting 23% of the vote, with Wesley Clark at 10%, Joe Lieberman at 10%, Richard Gephardt at 6%, Al Sharpton at 5%, John Kerry at 4%, John Edwards at 2%, Carol Moseley-Braun at 1%, Dennis Kucinich at 1%, and the remaining 28% undecided.
Dean, Clark, Lieberman. Kerry was behind Sharpton.
[Somehow, this didn’t get published from Denver International Airport. Their wi-fi is free, but spotty at the end of the A terminal. Better than LaGuardia’s, though, which charges you.]
She is wearing as much gaudy jewelry as 50 Cent, and not as well as he does. She lives in Westchester. She grew up in Yonkers. She is wearing a fur thing that I don’t understand, green and brown tartan pants. Brown suede shoes. A smug smile.
She has an anesthesiologist son who lives in Denver.
“Why else would I be here?” she says, within earshot.
I am now forced to listen to the rest of her hate speech. A tamer moment:
“They say, ‘Oh, it’s beautiful.’ I got here. I see the mountains. I got the idea.”
A nice young man from Ann Arbor — now of Brooklyn Heights — lazily defends Denver and Boulder.
She is sure that SUNY schools are better than CU-Boulder. I make a note to Google “SUNY-Buffalo and Nobel.”
She’s not opposed to all non-New York locations.
“Boca,” she says. “The action’s there.”
I look forward to making sure she gets on the plane and gets the hell out of Colorado. Read the rest of this entry »
