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		<title>Wrong politics on David Patterson</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not like Governor David Patterson one bit. I think he is thoroughly unqualified to run the state. His record for that state is good enough. However, I think that picking on his disability is out right wrong and I am ashamed that this is happening in our America.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do not like Governor David Patterson one bit. I think he is thoroughly unqualified to run the state. His record for that state is good enough. However, I think that picking on his disability is out right wrong and I am ashamed that this is happening in our <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667%20%28United%20States%29&amp;t=h" title="United States" rel="geolocation">America</a>.<!--ADS_INT sense3 --> </p>
<p>He is terrible, Governor Patterson. Say what you like about Governor Elliot Spitzer, he knew how to run a state. The only way Governor Patterson knows how to run a state is to run it to the ground! All the figures back that up. I hope, for New York state&#8217;s sake, he gets out as soon as possible!</p>
<p>However, that does not mean that we should be insulting the Governor because he is blind. It is one thing to make fun of the Governor, all comedians do that. We in ST too made fun of the President and the first yesterday in our article, and many have done so on President Bush&#8217;s term a year or so ago.</p>
<p>But scorning a blind person because he is blind? Come on! “(Governor Patterson)blind and can&#8217;t read <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille" title="Braille" rel="wikipedia">Braille</a> and doesn&#8217;t really know what&#8217;s going on” <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/rupert-murdoch" title="Rupert Murdoch" rel="crunchbase">Rupert Murdoch</a>. “He has people reading newspapers to him. He listens to tapes of staffers briefing him. All that takes an enormous amount of time” <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.democrats.org" title="Democratic Party (United States)" rel="homepage">Democratic</a> politician  Diane Savino . </p>
<p>Basically, in the manner above, we have heard many people criticizing the Governor because he is blind.  I think that this is very, very wrong. Would we criticize him for him being Black? No. Because we know that that is wrong. It is called racist. In the same way, we cannot insult him because he is blind. I think that utterly wrong. </p>
<p>Are we going to criticize a cripple because of his or her disability? How are we going to treat special people with Down&#8217;s syndrome as <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-class_citizen" title="Second-class citizen" rel="wikipedia">second class citizens</a>? Then why are we treating the Governor in the same manner. Haven&#8217;t we forgotten that one of our best Presidents died a paralyzed man? </p>
<p>Again, I state that I do not like this guy. I think he is to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.0,-75.0&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=43.0,-75.0%20%28New%20York%29&amp;t=h" title="New York" rel="geolocation">New York State</a> as what <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0124133/" title="George W. Bush" rel="imdb">George W Bush</a> was to the whole country : trouble! There is very little that he did right in his term so far. I agree with that.</p>
<p>In fact that made me more sad as I feel that he has enough faults already for the world to criticize. Enough! Why criticize his blindness? Why not criticize the manner he is running the state? Everything is worse since Governor “I like hookers but you can&#8217;t have them” Spitzer. Why not criticize his statements where he claimed that President <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/" title="Barack Obama" rel="homepage">Obama</a> is racist and does not want to see a Black governor? This guy has a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_trove" title="Treasure trove" rel="wikipedia">treasure trove</a> of attacks.</p>
<p>It is amazing that this is still going on in our America. Is this the liberty for all mentioned in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance" title="Pledge of Allegiance" rel="wikipedia">Pledge of Allegiance</a> that we took every morning in our schools? It really stabs the heart of what America stands for. <!--ADS_INT sense4 --><br />
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