From the HuffingtonPost.com:

The rumor that Barack Obama wants to appoint David Paterson to a job in his administration is almost as old as Paterson’s stint as governor. Since the vaguest part of the story is always the identity of the job (maybe an ambassadorship?) it’s safe to assume that the rumor is not springing from any pressing need for Paterson’s services in Washington, but rather from the deep desire of many New York Democrats to see him go away.

Strangely, for a man who has spent most of his adult life in the state senate, where politics means everything and policy next to nothing, Paterson’s biggest disasters have almost all been political. He botched the selection of Hillary Clinton’s successor. His staff wasn’t even savvy enough to pick a date for a special election to fill a state assembly seat without creating a crisis. And his decision last week to depict himself as a victim of racism seemed to suggest that Paterson, in his misery, has forgotten even the most basic rules of the way his chosen profession works.

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