PHOTOS: BARACK OBAMA arrives in Hempstead, NY, for tonight's debate at Hofstra University

US Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) arrives at a hotel prior to the final US presidential debate in Hempstead, New York, October 15, 2008. REUTERS/Jim Young(


Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., arrives at a hotel located near Hofstra Univerisity, the site of the third and final presidential debate in Hempstead, N.Y., Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)


Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., arrives at a hotel located near Hofstra Univerisity, the site of the third and final presidential debate in Hempstead, N.Y., Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)


Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., arrives at Hofstra University for a technical walk through prior to the presidential debate, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008, in Hempstead, N.Y.
(AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

I thought they were all out here in CA.

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GOBAMA! Looking forward to seeing him kick some ass tonight!

a tacky shopping mall with a Sizzler out front.

Either way, I get claustrophobia because there are only 3 nasty bridges out of that island.

Thank you. :D

And that's a big if.

And you can take the tunnel, if it sounds like fun. Personally, I don't want to be stuck under there in a jam.

I have a friend who just left long island for brooklyn. A slight improvement, because I can skip the L.I.E., but, I'll end up on the Belt.

Lots of fun.

That's a common mistake.

Unless you take a ferry to Connecticut from the north shore.

That said, as people from Queens and Brooklyn will tell you, Queens and Brooklyn are New York City, not "Long island," even though they are technically ON Long Island. Queens and brooklyn = New York City board of Ed, and NYPD. Nuf said.

Though you can also get off by boat and head south (NJ, etc).

At least when I was a kid living in Queens, we spoke of going "in to the city" when we went to Manhattan and "out on the island" when we went to Nassau.

I think that, like Schrodinger's cat, we existed in a state of quantum uncertainty, where we were either both or neither at the same time.

"The City" definitely means Manhattan, but let some Minnesotan transplanted Manhattanite tell you that you're NOT from New York City and that person should prepare for a savage ass-kicking. Queens in New York City, period.

It's kind of like in Saturday Night Fever, where John Travolta dreams of getting out of the discos of Brooklyn and making it big in Manhattan.

Manhattan is dreamland, it's the line of skyscrapers you can see along the horizon, it's the magical world on the other side of the river.

I actually lived on the Upper West Side until I was 14, and even then *that* Manhattan was something else again. It was "downtown" and was a world apart from the neighborhoods where ordinary people lived.

The mental geography of New York is a very strange place.

But they're still from New York City.

Whitestone Bridge
Throgs Neck Bridge
Triborough Bridge
59th Street Bridge
Manhattan Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge
Williamsburgh Bridge

(You don't even need the Verrazano or the tunnels - there are two of those - to get to seven)

Cheers.

:-)

Just sayin'...

which I used to avoid tolls, coming from the Bronx.

You have to count the Verrazano Bridge. IMO it's one of the most beautiful bridges in the country. And I'm not just saying that because I live under it (no not in a box for you wise guys).

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.pbase.com/david_dong/image/26085692&h=400&w=600&sz=40&hl=en&start=52&um=1&usg=__H2qyyf5KzRXElXE6I7cYylzchB8=&tbnid=YMcbtk2KRxRw_M:&tbnh=90&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dverrazano%2Bbridge%26start%3D40%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

As well as several ferries.

The Jets used to have their training camp there so I've been there a couple times. Hofstra is a pretty nice campus from what I've seen of it.

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The next 8 years are gonna be so fantastic !!!!!!!!!

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I do have to say, he's hot. As is Senator Biden in that silver fox kinda way. First time an entire ticket makes me swoon.

he is so HAWT!

sigh!:blush:

:loveya:

He's ready.

...and brains too. No wonder he ended up with a stunner like Michelle! I can't wait to see the pics of the girls playing on the White House lawn with their new dog!

It'll be nice to see and hear a President we can be proud of - and also one that won't make us barf everytime he shows up or speaks.

gotta love tweety

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He looks relaxed, confident, and ready.

Obama will be the first really cool, charming
classy president since JFK.

I'm so ready for Camelot II.

I am so ready for cool, charming and smart!

He thinks he is a regular person.

Fancy that ----

love him :bounce:

and I love that photo through the window.

I'll dig having a cool and intelligent President.

Graduated in January 1969. I am sooooo excited. I've been getting a gazillion calls from Hofstra all week. Thank goodness for caller ID- sorry folks, but my donating dollars are going to the Obama campaign right now-I'll get back to the alumni fund after the election.

attractive man for President? Be still, my heart!

Looks like he should be doing a film with Denzel.

Gobama

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