Paterson: Mets Have Better Chance At World Series Ring
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Gov. Paterson was being playful when he was asked on NPR yesterday who has a better chance of winning the World Series, the Mets or the Yankees.
“Probably the Mets because the Yankees are behind the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays in the American League East,” he said in the interview that was broadcast today.
Paterson, an avid Mets fan, didn’t mention that the Yankees have 26 World Series titles to the Mets two, but he did show confidence in his team, which moved into a first-place tie in their division last night.
Then he joked with Michel Martin, the show’s host and also a Mets fan, that “You’re right, the Mets really are the only team in New York.”
Paterson did take on some more meaty issues in his interview.
As he did in his speech yesterday to the NAACP, Paterson took on racism in the country and the issues facing urban America.
When asked if as an African-American governor from Harlem he has to calibrate his connections to the inner city, he said no.
“I think that a lot of African Americans who aspire to leadership levels of government and other entities feel this pressure that if they appear too interested in their own neighborhoods, that it is somehow some reverse racism,” he said. “It is not … Politics is all about coming from your community.”
And he defended Barack Obama’s comments, derided by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, that government assistance of the poor and black community has to be coupled with family responsibility.
“What Sen. Obama is saying is that I’m going to fight for the same programs, but I’m not going to allow the people who are the recipients of these programs to walk around without any responsibilities. And I think that is a really a step toward a new culture and really a higher plane of thinking than we have seen in American government in a long time.”
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on Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 12:39 pm by Joseph Spector.
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Let the Wilpons worry about the Mets. Get some work done on taxes, cut unnecessary state employees, and get rid of the lobbyists with their weighty checkbooks.