Paterson Breaks the Code

Not sure if the (New York) Daily News is trying to push the "race card" thing back into the forefront, but their current prominently placed blurb on Governor David Paterson's musings on the Republicans adds to yesterday's Living in Spanglish post nicely. "The Republican party is too smart to call Obama 'black,'" says the gov, who goes on to refer to Giuliani and Palin's continual trashing of Barack's stint as a "community organizer" as a subtle reference to not only people of color, but those who work in communities of color. For a more analytical take on this issue, Peter Drier and John Atlas's recent piece in The Nation is strongly insightful. But it's interesting that Paterson was willing to come out so stridently about the racial implications of the twin pit-bull attacks (Giuliani's of course, sans lipstick).