NY Gov On Obama: I'll Have To Get Back To You On That

Remember when the media savaged Palin early on for not being able to point out a specific piece of legislation from John McCain? Watch below as NY's current Governor weighs in on Obama's great accomplishments in the Senate. ha! h/t No Quarter

MSNBC’S CHRIS MATTHEWS: “Can you give me a case where Barack Obama has reached across the aisle and cut a deal and gotten something done for the country? One example.” GOVERNOR PATERSON: “Well, Senator Obama has been there two years and I can’t cite an example right now.”

Comments

[Mr DeBakey]

"point out a specific piece of legislation"

I don't think so, Tim.
I thought she couldn't remember any Supreme Court decisions, or name the newspapers she reads.

I know I wouldn't expect Ms Palin to relate the times that McCane reached across the aisle.
And neither am I surprised that Paterson can't for Obama.
Why should they?

[jharp]

And I thought Senator Biden was Obama's VP.

The guy's a governor fer christsakes. Not a VP candidate.

You're really grasping at straws. Maybe it's time to retry Obama is a secret Muslim.

[jharp]

Oh, and Governor Paterson just lost my vote for VP of the United States.

[chris]

I hear that he can see NJ from his kitchen window.

[jaime]

McCain Feingold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

McCain Kennedy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gang of 14!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

McCain '08 or How Conservatives Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Everything They Hated 18 Months Ago.

[seekeronos]

"--- I hear that he can see NJ from his kitchen window. ---"

He cannot. Governor Paterson is legally blind.

[seekeronos]

"--- McCain '08 or How Conservatives Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Everything They Hated 18 Months Ago. ---"

Well, McCain is slowly drifting back to the right from "Socialist Lite" to "Moderate Republican".

And because frankly... electing a stone-cold evil man, a Marxist who will rape this nation and leave her corpse for dead whilst he and his fellow-travellers abscond with the people's goods is an abomination to me.

That, and maybe Gov. Palin, are the only two reasons I will vote for McCain.

[terry schiavo]

senator obama has my undying support.

[templar knight]

"I hear that he can see NJ from his kitchen window."

Hm...I wonder if he looks out the kitchen window at NJ when he and Michelle Obama are eating Iranian caviar. And here I thought collard greens and sweet potatoes were going to be the "hot" item on the menu at the White House. Mmmmm....I love those myself, but you can shove that Iranian caviar up dinnerjackets ass for all I care.

In other news of interest to Democrats, Joe is not Joe, and plumbers don't have to have licenses to work in Ohio, just so long as they don't do commercial work, or so I've been told. When you're plumbing is stopped up, you really don't care if the guy has a license, you're more concerned about his ability to run that snake through your stopped up drain, or toilet. And speaking of toilets, Joe Biden says he has no plumbers in his neighborhood of multi-million dollar homes. Makes sense to me.

[Fred Beloit]

The reaction of the trolls is highly amusing. I can hardly contain myself.:
"But she was wearing red shoes. Red shoes imply a good memory. Patterson doesn't even own any red shoes."
"Yes Obama forgot or never learned how many states in the U.S.A. They don't even teach that in the elite schools he attended. They start kinder garden with Plato's Dialogs and The Calculus.

[mark l.]

reach across the aisle?

in 2005 he supported both oil and ethanol subsidies.

mccain voted against the bill.

see...obama is bipartisan.

[chris]

Iranian pistachio nuts are the best. You should try them.

[JustOneMan]

Isnt affirmative action a great thing for US taxpayers and society? He's known as a "double bonus" affirmative action hire. You get points for him being black and double points because he is blind!!!

[mark l.]

bipartisan?

just this year, he made a trip to Iraq and fought against timetables for our withdrawal.

[jaime]

Seek...I think you've been bit one too many times by those snakes you handle.

[mark l.]

“Well, Senator Obama has been there two years and I can’t cite an example right now.”

I thought he was elected in 2004, but if a democrat wants to tell me he only has 2 years of experience, who am I to argue?

[mark l.]

has michelle gained weight?

she may be the from 'lobster butt'...

maybe next time she could walk down and pick her order up. Funny how the peta types are stirred up over shooting wolves from a helicopter, but 'shreiking lobsters' have no voice.

[jaime]

"affirmative action hire."

Are any black people worthy of the Presidency?

If Michael Steele ran, would you attribute his success to affirmative action? Did you from your job by a black guy or something? What's YOUR problem?

[jaime]

"Did you get fired from your job by a black guy or something?"

Is what that sentence should have said.

[mark l.]

hmmm....steele v. obama...

six year lt governor vs. 4 year senator.
a nod to obama on being a senator, but six years of experience in governing versus none?
unless the presidency is more like being one of a hundred voices, versus actually governing...advantage steele.

obama's legal experience?
still trying to find something important that obama did, while steele was securites lawyer for 6 years.

world experience?
steele has time abroad in japan and london-working, while obama has never made it to mexico.

siblings?
steele's sister is a doctor, obama's brother lives in a hut on 20 dollars a year.

religion?
catholic v. black liberation theolgy?

so what does distinguish steele from obama?
neither are qualified to be president, unless there is some issue you can point to, other than oratory, that proves obama is more qualified.

[mark l.]

ps-

I found that Steele passed the PA bar, as the MD one is one of the more difficult.

no record of obama passing the bar, however.

[JustOneMan]

Paterson - The DOUBLE BONUS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Governor of NY

In September 2007, Paterson weighed in on a proposal before the New York City Council to extend voting rights to noncitizens.He told a crowd gathered at the West Indian American Day Carnival Parade that he believed noncitizens should be granted voting rights.

A former staff photographer, a Caucasian male, claimed that he was the victim of discrimination in 2005 when Paterson's office replaced him with a black photographer

One day after Paterson's inauguration as the Governor of New York, both he and his wife acknowledged having had extramarital affairs, one with a state employee

Imagine if he was a white male....

[North Dallas Thirty]

"If Michael Steele ran, would you attribute his success to affirmative action?"

Well, as Mark pointed out, we wouldn't need to attribute it to that, just to his track record -- including the fact that Steele was the first black man EVER elected to statewide office in Democrat-dominated Maryland, as a Republican.

Meanwhile, the black Obama has never seemingly managed to succeed anywhere in which affirmative action taken to the extreme wasn't present.

Take, for example, the Harvard Law Review.

"Using a competitive process that takes into account first-year grades, an editing exercise, and a written commentary on a court decision, The Harvard Law Review selects between 41 and 43 editors annually from the second-year Law School class, which numbers 560.

Two editors from each of first-year class's seven sections (fourteen in all) are selected half by their first year grades and half by their scores on the writing competition. Another twenty are selected solely on their scores on the writing competition. The other seven to nine are selected by a discretionary committee, either to fulfill the review's race-based affirmative action program, to select students who just missed the cut by either of the other two processes, or by some other criteria as the committee sees fit."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_Review

And, for more delicious details:

"Until the 1970's the editors were picked on the basis of grades, and the president of the Law Review was the student with the highest academic rank. Among these were Elliot L. Richardson, the former Attorney General, and Irwin Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and Solicitor General under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.

That system came under attack in the 1970's and was replaced by a program in which about half the editors are chosen for their grades and the other half are chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition. The new system, disputed when it began, was meant to help insure that minority students became editors of The Law Review."

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2DC1631F935A35751C0A966958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FPeople%2FO%2FObama%2C%20Barack

[BobinStamford]

"Imagine if he was a white male...."

Imagine angry white losers like you mattering on 11/5. I can't either.

You're a disgrace to the rest of us.

Semper Fi!

[seekeronos]

"--- Imagine if he was a white male.... ---"

Nah, that ain't enough to get him rightly skewered. Jim Webb wrote stories about farmers picking up their toddler children and fellating them, and he's the Honourable Senator from Virginia.

Now, imagine if he were a REPUBLICAN and a white male.

He'd be sawn in twain, burnt at the stake, pilloried, and then fed to the alligators in the NY sewers for good measure.

[seekeronos]

...although in fairness, his former boss, Eliot Spitzer, decided to do a little whoremongering on the side, for which he lost his job.

But his being a former DA and prosecutor might have helped to even up the ante a bit with that of being an actual (R).

[seekeronos]

"--- Iranian pistachio nuts are the best. You should try them. ---"

Love them almost as much as I love Kirin and Ōtoro sashimi.

Can't eat too many of them though - clogs me up right badly.

[seekeronos]

"--- Seek...I think you've been bit one too many times by those snakes you handle. ---"

You must have me mistaken for one of those "Assembly of God" folks. All due respect to them, but I do not believe in putting the Lord to the test by picking up any snakes.

Speaking of snakes, you might want to be careful of the low-down snake in the grass you are holding up as your god. He just might come back to bite you much harder than you think.