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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

It’s Like the Blind Leading the… Oh, Never Mind

posted by on March 11 at 14:50 PM

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The man poised to succeed Gov. Eliot Spitzer would not only become the first black governor of New York. He would also be the state’s first legally blind governor and its first disabled governor since Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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well, you cannot be asked to resign over too frequent masturbation.

Posted by infrequent | March 11, 2008 2:54 PM
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Liabilities are not so different from disabilities. This is so unfair.

Posted by elenchos | March 11, 2008 2:55 PM
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Blind? Maybe. Colorblind? Not according to the photographer who was fired for being white.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | March 11, 2008 2:59 PM
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"Blind leading the blind..."

Now THAT'S funny. Too bad Hee-Haw's not on anymore. You'd be a star, baby.

Posted by Lola | March 11, 2008 3:17 PM
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Was this horrid new font enabled to aid the new governor in reading Slog?

Posted by michael strangeways | March 11, 2008 3:30 PM
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If Spitzer steps down or is removed, Paterson would become only the third black governor in the nation since Reconstruction.

Really?!?!?

Posted by flabbergasted | March 11, 2008 3:32 PM
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Trifecta!

Now if only he was an Obama supporter, we'd be +2 superdelegates as well.

Posted by Will in Seattle | March 11, 2008 4:41 PM
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@1 Infrequent gets the spew over the keyboard prize.

Posted by amazonmidwife | March 11, 2008 4:50 PM
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@1 ftw.

Posted by amazonmidwife | March 11, 2008 4:53 PM
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does skin color really matter to a blind guy? although I've been told that since different skin types produce different combination of body oils, blind people can distinguish pigmentation by smell....(oh god does that make me raceist?)

Posted by linus | March 11, 2008 5:41 PM
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Well, check that one off your bingo board, everybody...

Posted by Greg | March 12, 2008 8:44 AM

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