Obama’s List of Friends Thrown Under the Bus Grows « NewsReal Blog

Obama’s List of Friends Thrown Under the Bus Grows « NewsReal Blog

This past week Barack Obama, in unprecedented fashion, strongly suggested to David Paterson that he should not run for reelection as the Democrat candidate for Governor of New York. Obama’s people then leaked the story to the press. The President wants Andrew Cuomo to be his party’s nominee, since Paterson seems sure to lose the general election.

Here is a video of CNN’s Lou Dobbs covering the story:

ABC News also covered the story and points out how the President even introduced Paterson in a completely different way than the way than he did Andrew Cuomo at a speaking engagement that both men attended. Paterson was an also-mentioned while Cuomo was effusively praised.

Even the leftist Huffington Post is angry at Obama for throwing Paterson under the bus. They wrote:

“You can understand why Barack Obama and his team would like to see a more attractive Democratic candidate for governor than David Patterson [sic]. You can understand why the White House would be trying to prod, or lure, Patterson into retirement. But there’s a wide gap between that and what happened over the weekend, when the White House decided to publicly humiliate the governor.”