"Piss off the President eh Paterson? SMOOTH move!"
Posted on 08/23/2009 3:50:49 AM PDT by Scanian
President Obama's aides were so furious that Gov. Paterson dragged him into a rant about racism that they sent a message sharply criticizing the governor's comments just hours after he made them, The Post has learned.
Aides to Obama were angered by Paterson's tirade on liberal talk-radio station WWRL on Friday, sources said.
Paterson blamed his political woes on racially slanted coverage and predicted the president would be the next "victim" of biased media.
Obama's team delivered a pointed message to Paterson within hours of the morning broadcast, multiple sources said.
It came in a call from White House political director Patrick Gaspard, who has deep ties to the New York political scene, to Larry Schwartz, the governor's first deputy secretary.
Gaspard wanted to know "why [Paterson] was dragging the president into" his troubles, said one source.
But although Obama's aides were unhappy, the sources said, the conversation was not hostile.
Obama, who still enjoys popularity in the polls despite taking some hits on the health-care issue, has rarely touched directly on issues of race. He won election by a wide margin with support across demographic lines and broad support among white voters.
"I'm not surprised" that his advisers were displeased, said one Democratic insider, adding that Gaspard is a fiercely loyal adviser who has been monitoring the situation in New York.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Where’s Jesse and Al when you need them, there’s some racial healing needed here.
“Obama has rarely touched directly on issues of race.”
If I smoke some of that good stuff will I be able to pretend that Obama has rarely tried to destroy America with his policies?
Paterson is an idiot...plain and simple...race is not the issue...his politics stink....that’s why the people of NY don’t like him.
Governor Patterson may be blind but that doesn’t mean he can’t still dance, i.e “do the hustle”!
This POS in the WH is beyond arrogance and narcissism.
Perhaps they are looking at the polls two months ago?
Obama’s a “victim”, alright. Of affirmative action and white guilt.
I kid you not.
Newt has a malformed gene somewhere in his DNA. He’s always collaborating with liberals on something. If he focused his great mind on great thinking he could have taken it to the next level.
I don’t understand the need for the 0 admin to comment at all. 0 took all the worship to heart and any criticism seems to cut right through him. Patterson’s comments could have just been ignored.
Read through this carefully. The 0bama Admins. are supposedly upset because he brought 0bama into this. Patterson wasn't supposed to mention 0bama in his rant, he was only supposed to take the policy debate into racial lines? He was/is being used by the Administration.
This was a planned and well orchestrated incident, meant to highlight 0bama as the 'post racial' president. We all know he is not and the more they pull and try to agitate with the race card the less effective it becomes.
Look how effective this article is at taking the debate off healthcare and putting back on Race. Folks stay on topic and don't let them pull you into the race-bait game.
Guess that silly "Gates - Crowley" affair has already been 'disappeared' down the memory hole, huh...
How many times has he pulled the race card in the past year? None of the incidents, none of them were legitimate issues.
Until shortly before he joined Obama’s 2008 campaign as political director, Gaspard was a registered lobbyist for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
“There’s no debate here over policy,” Sharpton said. “There’s a debate over you said this about me, your guy said that about me. It sounds like a schoolyard fight rather than a presidential campaign.”
http://wcbstv.com/politics/bill.clinton.rev.2.630351.html
It is standard operating procedure for 0bama. The sooner we figure out he only has one tactic in his bag, the sooner we can defeat him.
The Justice Brothers have been strangely silent of late. I think they sense the $$$ well for the Obama Presidency is getting dry, and are looking for some new sucker...er, prospects.
When you havent a chance in hell of suceeding due to your ineptitude, inexperience, and failures, all these guys turn the race card. Typical liberal fingerpointing game. RESPONSIBILITY is not in thier vocabulary and never will be if we don’t see this nonsense for what it really is!
Sure it was scripted. One more opportunity that the opportunist-in-chief and his gang weren’t going to let go by.
Along with Jon Favreau, he is one of Zippy’s favorite speechwriters as well.
A Special Kind of Loss for Dinkins's Young Aides
Loved the bits about being a community organizer, and the limo thing...
I agree. If those yo-yo’s were white they’d do the same thing, just like the Clintons’ “VRWC” and blaming Rush for The OK City bombing.
The blame game goes with the Dhimmi territory.
Patrick Gaspard Joins Obama Team
Gaspard was the national field director for 'America Coming Together' [ACT] during the 2004 cycle. In October of 2004, St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners trashed hundreds of faulty voter registrations, most of them collected by voter drive groups like ACT. Many voters registered twice by using variations of their names.
In 2004, the AP reported that ACT under Gaspard had paid convicted felons to canvass homes and solicit private information (including Social Security numbers) from voters as part of its "Get out the vote effort".
In 2007, ACT was fined $750,000 by the FEC for violating election finance rules.
Even a chimp living in an alternate universe would know this circus clown speaks with a forked tongue.
Zippy just plays it different. He holds it back for maximum effect, unlike the Gates’ and Paterson’s of the world who spew “racism” whenever they get a chance.
...or 20 years of Black Liberation Theology...
Another corrupt scumbag welcomed by Zippy with open arms. Fits right in—has all the right experience on his resume.
Obama, who still enjoys popularity in the polls despite taking some hits on the health-care issue, has rarely touched directly on issues of race.
LOL.
Obama knows he is playing the card too early, he is saving it for 2012
http://www.politickerny.com/4185/patrick-gaspard-writes-poems-collects-comics-kills-obama
Patrick Gaspard Writes Poems, Collects Comics, Kills for Obama
Labor's Investment In Obama Pays Off
...During the 2004 election cycle, he led the George Soros-funded group America Coming Together as national field director.
I can see why Obama would be p.o.’d. The race card is the only thing he’s got in his hand, and here is someone else casually throwing it out on the table.
BTW, note to former Councilwoman Lopez: Interesting reply in the bit about Obama's vetters asking about drug use. If I'd been doing the interview with you I'd've followed up on that...
Patrick Gaspard. More proof of why Upstate needs its own state.
“Newt has a malformed gene somewhere in his DNA”.
...no “malformed gene” with Newt. Newt has “it’s all about Newt” disease.
Sister Souljah.
That is his achilles heel. The GOP needs to use that to their advantage.
Hussein got wee weed up.
Agreed. Newt is brilliant and articulate, but he has a very annoying habit of regularly popping off with some remark designed to play well on the left.
One of the authors of this article is Fred Dicker, a Post reporter who has covered Albany since the Permian Age. Dicker is a good reporter and has broken countless political stories about lowlife Albany politicians. The problem with Dicker is that he’s been in Albany so long he no longer identifies with his readers as well as he does with the slugs he covers.
He’s a lot like the Washington reporters who instead of being the eyes and ears of the people feel their real job is to run cover for the administration and shield Obama.
We still have a free press in this country but we no longer have a fair and impartial press.
One of the great things about William F Buckley was his ability to out these prejudiced reporters by taking their stories apart sentence by sentence and exposing the innate hypocrisy of not only their views but their writing style.
Good point. But I don’t know if Zippy can pull it off like Slick Willy.
Is anyone surprised by this? Zero has cornered the racism market. No other Black in politics is allowed to claim racism anywhere or Zero looks much smaller. I couldn’t be more pleased.
It is true...
When cornered, Liberals will eat their own kind...
“Obama has rarely touched directly on issues of race.”
Except when a white cop arrests a black college professor.
And it took him a week to even mention the protests in Iran.
The lie about Bozo never using the race card is the biggest load of BS they have tried to shovel yet. Just off the top of my head I can think of several times: During the Campaign, "Because I don't look like the guys on the dollar bills!". Recently with Gates, exact quote escapes me but something like, "We still have a race problem here in the US".
Both of those times, and they are not the only examples, were blatant playings of the race card directly for Bozo.
All this crap is smoke and mirrors trying to fool the still stupid base into believing Bozo would never do something like play the race card.+
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