We’ve seen these posters all over our neighborhood lately, but we haven’t seen any for the other Democrat in the race. And now the Brooklyn Papers just added to the Obama chorus by with a formal endorsement. We actually tried to go to a “Fort Greene for Change” debate-watching party at the Night of the Cookers restaurant on Fulton St. to see what the buzz was like, but when we arrived they told us they wouldn’t turn the sound up on the television, so we left. We found this flyer posted outside Ralph’s bodega on Lafayette, but Ralph – ever the diplomat – wouldn’t commit to a candidate when we asked him.
General Nathaniel Greene, our namesake. Read more about him 
Sheez. Too bad about the sound for the debate. I wonder if they’ll play the audio for the Super Bowl.
Two other Obama-related NYC sightings:
-a homemade-looking photocopied poster (different from this one) outside a liquor store on Smith Street
-a group of people walking/marching (I heard but didn’t see them) down Christopher Street in the W. Village chanting, “Obama! 0-8! In New York State!”
New Yorkers always seem to love a good fight among lefties — this could be a wild few days.
Last Saturday, at the same time the Idiotarod was just beginning, a group of neighborhood kids had a bake sale for Obama at the Fort Greene Park Greenmarket.
i live further inland along fulton – and i have seen these screen-print Obama posters everywhere, and none for ms. clinton.
you want to see a Hillary poster,
you can make one and hang it up
[...] Over on the Brooklynian forums, someone asks if there are any places to watch the Super Tuesday returns in the neighborhood. Which makes us wonder, why are there no political bars around? If you can be guaranteed a bar will show the biggest sports event of the year, why not the biggest political event? And if you do hear about one, find out in advance if they’ll have the sound up on the TV (as we learned the hard way the other day). [...]