http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/12/paterson-says-anxiety-is-overflowing-in-upstate-ny/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:11:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.5 http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/12/paterson-says-anxiety-is-overflowing-in-upstate-ny/#comment-32341 ed Tue, 13 May 2008 01:26:43 +0000 http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/12/paterson-says-anxiety-is-overflowing-in-upstate-ny/#comment-32341 What he wants, of course, is to be able to appoint one person, a party loyalist, who will not criticize anything that comes out of his office. If upstate falls for this, then they are as dumb as the condescending picture of American Gothic (the barn, the pitchfork, the old farmers) makes them out to be. What neither of these pols or the hacks who put them in front of the cutouts understands is that this picture is a satire to begin with. What he wants, of course, is to be able to appoint one person, a party loyalist, who will not criticize anything that comes out of his office. If upstate falls for this, then they are as dumb as the condescending picture of American Gothic (the barn, the pitchfork, the old farmers) makes them out to be. What neither of these pols or the hacks who put them in front of the cutouts understands is that this picture is a satire to begin with.

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