Paterson’s wife hints: Does Obama have a problem with black governors?
posted at 5:15 pm on September 23, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Really, really stupid. And really, really enjoyable.
Is Mrs. Paterson a Republican, perchance? This is, after all, the official RNC line.
“You never heard of that before,” Michelle Paterson, in her first comments on the situation, said following a luncheon in Midtown.
“David’s the first African-American governor in the state of New York and he’s being asked to get out of the race. It’s very unusual and it seems very unfair.”…
Paterson added, “I never heard of a president asking a governor not to run … so I thought it was very unusual that this would be asked of David and I don’t think it’s right.”
Unless and until The One orders a political hit on Deval Patrick, I’m going to assume that his antipathy to Paterson is due mainly to the fact that, um, Paterson’s an unelectable disaster. But why is he unelectable? Mrs. Paterson’s got a clever explanation for that too. Dude:
In a passionate defense of her husband, New York’s first lady, Michelle Paterson, tells News 4 it’s wrong for the White House to get involved in a local race. She admits there have been some very disappointing times recently where it seemed her husband might not be able to survive politically. But she said he’s “a fighter” who is staying in the race. Mrs. Paterson says she believes David’s blindness is contributing to his low poll numbers.
Turns out two-thirds of the state hate the blind. What can I say? Living in New York hardens you somehow. Exit question: When — not if — Andrew Cuomo crushes Paterson in the primary with 60 percent of the vote, will that be because of Obama’s prejudice against blacks or against the handicapped?
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She’s right. It’s blindness. But not the visual kind.
lorien1973 on September 23, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Playing the race card is so ingrained among the liberals I guess she just couldn’t help herself.
ROCnPhilly on September 23, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Hmm…Tuff one.
Obama does have a history of h8 against the handicapped.
Remember the special olympics comment?
Joe Caps on September 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Oh my home state can pick em.
rob verdi on September 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM
If you say so.
BigD on September 23, 2009 at 5:20 PM
MichelleO and MichelleP…Cage Fight…Only on PayPerView!
innominatus on September 23, 2009 at 5:21 PM
No, no, no, it will be because the voters in the Democratic primary are bigots, choose any flavor you like.
trubble on September 23, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Kinda like when John Philips sees his daughter.
What. Too soon?
lorien1973 on September 23, 2009 at 5:22 PM
What she doesn’t realize is that it’s all jealousy on the part of Obama.
Paterson is both BLACK and BLIND. He gets to play the race card AND the disabled card.
Obama only gets to play the race card and he resents ANY politician having an advantage.
Daggett on September 23, 2009 at 5:22 PM
All we need is Joe Biden asking him to read a passage from the Dems platform book.
hip shot on September 23, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Paterson’s real goal, he said, is to follow in Barack Obama’s footsteps and be president of the United States, because: “Once you go black, you don’t go back.”
I blame SNL…
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/12/15/video-snl-goofs-on-new-york-governor-for-being-blind/
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/02/01/video-snl-goes-after-blind-new-york-governor-again/
ninjapirate on September 23, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Michelle Paterson must have heard Steele’s comments. This is just too awesome!
cubachi on September 23, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Good woman. Stands by her man.
He’ll run in the primary and lose, but keep is honor.
Sapwolf on September 23, 2009 at 5:24 PM
BTW, didn’t Paterson defy Obama with regard to Caroline Kennedy?
ninjapirate on September 23, 2009 at 5:25 PM
The Bennys hate the blind. Haha thats good.
MDWNJ on September 23, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Barry Sotero’s white half is a racist MoFo .
borntoraisehogs on September 23, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Can we get some official hotair linkage to a really awesome video?
Mr. Tax-Law-Writing-Tax-Evader
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UksfV5V7R20
ninjapirate on September 23, 2009 at 5:28 PM
The lowest of the low.. someone get that woman on the radio, this blue on blue is simply glorious.
WisCon on September 23, 2009 at 5:28 PM
That ship sailed long ago…
trubble on September 23, 2009 at 5:29 PM
The blind dissing the (truly) blind.
TXUS on September 23, 2009 at 5:29 PM
I do not know, but the squirrel in the FreeScore.com ad I have on this page sure does look tasty! :-)
WashJeff on September 23, 2009 at 5:29 PM
appaling…
graceless lady…
max1 on September 23, 2009 at 5:30 PM
B.O. is getting ready for a major implosion here. You can see it coming.
pilamaye on September 23, 2009 at 5:30 PM
It’s stupid but hilarious.
I feel the same way I did when Obama called Kanye a jackass. He shouldn’t have said it, but being called a jackass by the president, especially this cultural icon president, couldn’t have happened to a better person.
Paterson shouldn’t be playing the race card, especially not against a president, but playing it on this president, is just perfect.
Esthier on September 23, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Both.
Dusty on September 23, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Hoisted on his own petard.
Terrye on September 23, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Well, that Michelle is much easier on the eyes.
JammieWearingFool on September 23, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Forgive Obama. He’s in a constant struggle against his evil, racist white half and sometimes it gets the better of him.
RadClown on September 23, 2009 at 5:35 PM
hmmmm…payback by dear leader?
cmsinaz on September 23, 2009 at 5:39 PM
I find myself really wanting this Paterson guy to kick Cuomo’s ass in the primary. Keep fighting, Paterson!
joe_doufu on September 23, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Obama is pissed that Paterson has a better looking Michelle than his.
txsurveyor on September 23, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Holy crap, Glenn Beck just boiled a frog alive on Fox.
Pat Meebles on September 23, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Glenn said the frog was fake.
SoulGlo on September 23, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Why we are boiling frogs now?
lorien1973 on September 23, 2009 at 5:43 PM
To prove the French can take the heat better than Obama?
WashJeff on September 23, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Why is Obama so down on Paterson? Paterson’s polling sucks, but Deval Patrick isn’t winning any great popularity contests in Massachusetts…and I don’t hear him asking Patrick to hit the shower.
Maybe it IS the blindness.
Now, where’s that Orville Redenbacher’s Double Buttered stuff?
marybel on September 23, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Can eye of Newt be far behind?
ICBM on September 23, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Mrs. Paterson seems like a nice lady. Good for her for standing up to Barry.
Christien on September 23, 2009 at 5:53 PM
This is getting real fun to watch! Liberals starting to eat their own. I am making more popcorn!
rukiddingme on September 23, 2009 at 5:54 PM
I hate cleaning up my monitor. lol
chemman on September 23, 2009 at 5:54 PM
We’re all racist now.
TN Mom on September 23, 2009 at 5:55 PM
She really hasn’t been paying attention to world wide politics very closely, now has she? Wasn’t it Putin who was requiring Mayors of cities and provincial governors and such to step down so he could put his own people in power? And those who didn’t step down: didn’t they disappear in the night somewhere to be found dead somewhere else? Or was that Medvedev, Putin’s puppet? Sounds really cloak and dagger, doesn’t it? But then to equate Russian politics to American politics isn’t quite right because we’ve never had despotic Czars in power….hold on a minute…..
Driefromseattle on September 23, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Isn’t Paterson all black? Obama’s only half-black. I think that means Paterson’s racism charge sticks.
I’ll have to get out my chart.
Cicero43 on September 23, 2009 at 6:00 PM
It will all become clear to those that seek, as Halloween approaches. Some kind of spell, as a protection for the kids, is needed as the Government attempts to tax their trick-or-treat collections.
Beware of tall kids costumned as Joe Biden, but smelling like an acorn.
Yoop on September 23, 2009 at 6:01 PM
I don’t want to get off topic, but the frogs Beck were going for, I’m pretty sure, were trying to avoid him. Could be wrong.
Pat Meebles on September 23, 2009 at 6:02 PM
You live by the sword,
That means you die by the sword.
Barack deserves this.
Haiku Guy on September 23, 2009 at 6:06 PM
meanwhile, part time Virginia governor who is also full time DNC chair (tim kaine–white) is trying hard to convince bambi (1/2 black) to lean on the first black governor in the entire universe (that would be doug wilder from virginia) to endorse the Dem candidate (white) for governor of Virginia.
its a dem thing.
kelley in virginia on September 23, 2009 at 6:06 PM
can rudy beat’em all?
kelley in virginia on September 23, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Shhh…Lay off the Michelle Obama jokes, it drives the loons at LGF crazy
Jeff from WI on September 23, 2009 at 6:12 PM
As Mrs Patterson will explain later, “Hey, it’s a ‘Black Thang’ y’all!”
c3ichief on September 23, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Not racist. RAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST! is how it has to be printed when the RAAAAAAAAACE! card is played.
Considering that it’s been established by the State Run Media that blacks cannot be racist, and that whites are the only people who are (all are except liberal whites) then am I to conclude that it’s Obama’s white half that is the source of his RAAAAAAAACISM! ?
wildcat84 on September 23, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Did anyone else see that pic on Drudge with O shaking Gov. Paterson’s hand. Gov. Paterson was looking at O the way he would if he could see. O was shaking Gov. Paterson’s hand but looking off to the side as if he was p-oed that someone was making him stoop so low to shake that man’s hand. What an arrogant a…. stupid people elected as their president.
UnderstandingisPower on September 23, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Allah, do you mean New York City or that forgotten land mass that sits above it called New York State?
And if it hardens one, I`m wondering why my abs are so squishy.
ThePrez on September 23, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Obama has 50% Stanley Dunham white blood. he was born registering half throttle on the race meter.
Blame his maternal grandparents for not being progressive.
seven on September 23, 2009 at 6:36 PM
Idiocracy.
Dorvillian on September 23, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Well my first question was if two black politicians disagree which one is the racist? I guess the one who uses the word first.
Once again… Obama has race issues, some might called that racism.
petunia on September 23, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Okay that was what all the boiling water was about… I had it on but had to leave. Usually the story is that if you start the frog in cold water it won’t jump out but if you throw it into boiling water it jumps out immediately.
That was his explanation of why he said what he said about McCain.
I suppose he could be right, if we can successfully jump out of the boiling pot Obama has going if not… I wish freedom had a slower death.
petunia on September 23, 2009 at 6:43 PM
well, everyone except Allah.
I_C on September 23, 2009 at 6:51 PM
President Obama has done the impossible.
I feel sorry for Governor Paterson. Imagine throwing a blind man under the bus.
Run, Dave, Run-Bumper sticker on the front fender of the Obama limousine.
patch on September 23, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Priceless!
Mangy Scot on September 23, 2009 at 7:49 PM
I won’t vote for Paterson for governor, but I’m pissed that Obama has the chutzpah to tell him he can’t run.
That’s just absurd. If he’s got the money, the time, the guts and the support, he should just whatever he damn well pleases.
Mommynator on September 23, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Did Jim Treacher find out if Governor Patterson knows that our beloved Dictator-In-Training-Pants is black ?
Somebody had to run that up again from last night…. too dang funny.
;-)
Kenny Solomon
Eeeeevil Jooooooooooo at your service.
E T Cartman on September 23, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Don’t forget, Obama’s only half black. Advantage Paterson.
Big John on September 23, 2009 at 9:06 PM
I’m sorry, as a New Yorker I just cannot get past his blindness. It taints everything he says and does. Would you trust your kids around a blind man? No, neither would I. Blind people are deceptive, sneaky and inherently dishonest. If it were up to me I would segregate these people from the rest of society. Would you sit next to a blind person on the bus? Thought not.
Sharke on September 23, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Isn’t this the woman who did beaucoup lines of coke and had threesomes with Governor Magoo?
Travis Bickle on September 23, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Playing the blind card. Is this a first?
DrStock on September 23, 2009 at 9:52 PM
mmm…vodka
equanimous on September 23, 2009 at 9:53 PM
It’s great fun watching these animals eat their own!
Cybergeezer on September 24, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Mrs Patterson. You don’t understand. Your old man doesn’t stand a chance against a municipal dog catcher in the next election. It seems to be, all of a sudden, about competence? Why aren’t you falling on your swords like good little socialist aparchicks?
kens on September 24, 2009 at 11:37 AM
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