Paterson On Obama Visit: “I Thought He Was Gracious To Me”
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Gov. David Paterson today spoke for the first time at length about his exchanges with the White House and his interactions with President Obama in Troy yesterday.
While Paterson didn’t reveal the details of his conversations with the White House or Obama, he did say he thought his exchanges with Obama were fine and that Obama in fact expressed regret about the blowup the White House’s involvement in his candidacy has created.
“I thought he was gracious to me. He spoke to me, he asked me how I was feeling,” Paterson told reporters in Manhattan today. “He expressed a little chagrin about the process in this situation. And I think there was so much attention to expression and body language and someone said he turned his back on the press because he didn’t want them to see him hug me. But I was facing the press, so how could he have hugged me without turning his back on the press? And I’m really glad that he didn’t.”
Paterson again didn’t deny that the White House has asked him to step aside, but did take issue with reports that the message came from Rep. Gregory Meeks, something the Queens congressman also sought to clarify today.
“I have had conversations with the White House,” Paterson said. “I am concerned about the Democratic Party, but I am also concerned about my ability to govern as Wednesday is the leaders meeting where we are going to start taking up this budget deficit.”
Paterson indicated that he will remain focused on governing and dealing with the state’s budget deficit. The message from several Democratic sources today is that no decision on Paterson’s future will be made soon.
Paterson, though, reiterated that he plans to run for election next year and used his victory in the Court of Appeals today to appoint a lieutenant governor as an analogy to overcoming tough odds. Most legal experts—and the lower courts—believed Paterson appointing a lieutenant governor was illegal.
“You don’t give up, you don’t give up just because people tell you what they think is going to happen,” Paterson said. “You don’t give up because people tell you who’s running and who’s not before they ever announce to do it.”
He continued, “You don’t give up because you’re unpopular when you feel you’ve made the right decisions and when people get a chance to look at what you were up against they will reflect on it. And if you keep the attitude that you don’t give up, you may get to prove people, when the final tabulation is in, that you were doing the right thing—and that’s what happened with the court decision today.”
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As gracious as DON BARZINI plotting to ice DON CORLEONE while axsking[ebonics spellung]to all the MOB CAPOS ”...after all we are entitled to profit – we are not all COMMUNISTS here???” OH AREN’T WE???!!! Ha. Restore the HEALTH/WEALTH/FREEDOMS/SAFETY of AMERIKA – remove the FLY-SWATTER-n-CHIEF CHICAGO COMMIE ‘the OBAMA’ + his mindless MARXISTS masquerading as POOPY PROGRESSIVE ELEKTED DEMBHOLES now!!!
Zyskandar A. Jaimot, Orlando, Fl., state of STOOPID FASCIST COMMIE CORRUPTED OBAMALAND