Paterson Says GOP Uses "Racial Coding" In Election

[deminks]

http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/85640/paterson-says-gop-uses--racial-coding--in-election/Default.aspx?ap=1&Flash

Governor David Paterson publicly accused John McCain’s presidential campaign of racial coding today.

Speaking at a Crain's breakfast in Midtown Manhattan, Paterson was asked if he thinks racism will harm Barack Obama's chances of becoming president.

"I think that there are overtones of potential racial coding in the campaign. I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama 'black' in a sense that it would be a negative,” said Paterson. “But you can take something about his life, which I noticed they did at the Republican Convention - a 'community organizer.' They kept saying it, they kept laughing, like what does this mean? It means that an individual who could have gone to Wall Street and made a lot of money and then run for office because he could buy media time chose to go back and work in programs in a neighborhood where he thought he could make a difference and became an elected official based on his involvement right in his own community."

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Tweety got this message loud and clear yesterday, too. The rethugs were laughing about the community organizer thing, and he told them "I get it."

Vile. Lower than dirt. McCain worst of all.

[grannie4peace]

1. i like paterson

[alsame]

2. It doesn't surprise me, it probably works very well with their

base. Every Repub I know is racist. Every.single.one.

[yardwork]

3. Gee, ya think?

[meow2u3]

4. "Community organizer" = "N***er agitator"

Enough said. Racist code deciphered.