Comments on: Obama interfering in NY politics

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:43:30 +0000

He needs Specter to vote for his pernicious domestic policy bills his malevolent and ruinous policies in foreign and defense affairs. He’s laying down markers for Specter who will be expected to come through for him in the future. Now that he’s a Democrat Specter will be expected to follow the lead of the First Lord of the Admiralty in Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore:

“I always voted at my party’s call,
“and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.”

By: Eric Jablow

Eric Jablow — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:46:43 +0000

Oddâ€”President Obama does not want Gov. Paterson to run for reelection, but he campaigns for Sen. Arlen Specter to run in Pennsylvania. This seems a trifle inconsistent.

L’shana Tova,
Eric Jablow (not the same as Eric J.)

By: Eric J

Eric J — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:45:49 +0000

I don’t think Hillary would run for Governor right now – she can’t become Governor and quit a year later to run for President, and with Obama weak, she needs to hang on as SoS until she can find something to blow up as a wedge issue with him, so she can run from the center on Foreign Policy. (Whatever half-assed healthcare bill gets passed will give any Democrat who wants to the chance to run from either the left or the center on domestic issues.)

By: MarkJ

MarkJ — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:27:44 +0000

Given who’s he’s dealing with, I’ve got a sawbuck that says Patterson will be receiving dead fishes wrapped in a copy of the New York state constition in 3…2…1…

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:03:40 +0000

I assume no one is surprised. Obama has a habit of tossing under the bus whoever becomes an encumbrance. He did it with his own grandmother. (Falsely, too; in his book he relates her being afraid of a particular black man who had been bothering her, not black men generally. But it helped him avoid disavowing Rev. Wright to use his grandmother as an example of a racist he stuck with.) Ayers he worked closely with for many years but he became just some guy from around the neighborhood. And so forth. I can’t, however, say he threw Israel under the bus because it is very clear from his associations, his history, and his views on world politics that he never supported Israel much in the first place.

Now, I wonder if the president were white and made the same demand of Gov. Patrick, how this would be handled. OK, I don’t really wonder.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:17:01 +0000

You will be able to know Hillary’s intentions to run for Governor of New York if she stops “trash-talking” to Israel. She will need the Jewish vote, so she’ll have to backtrack most of her statements since becoming Secretary of State (total freeze on settlements, etc.).

If she doesn’t, guaranteed she’s staying put.