NY and WH discriminate against blind people?

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Hmmmm.... People against Gov Patternson because he's blind in one eye?

Mrs. Paterson says she believes David's blindness is contributing to his low poll numbers.
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Things just keep getting more and more absurd around here.
 
He was NEVER popular and was elected JUST because of the scandal.

You're just a political troll.
 
netrox said:
He was NEVER popular and was elected JUST because of the scandal.

You're just a political troll.
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I think he only came here to troll us because he percieves this site as a "liberal" site and because of our "incorrect" pov on deafness as well.
 
Gov. Patterson is legally blind in both eyes.

When David Paterson was three months old, he got an ear infection that spread to his optic nerve, leaving him legally blind. Fifty-three years later, Eliot Spitzer’s resignation, effective Monday, will make him the first blind governor of New York.

Lt. Gov. Paterson taking his oath of office as lieutenant governor in 2007 as his wife, Michelle, watches.

“People are fond of saying of people with disabilities that they are just like everybody else,” Paterson told the Associated Press in 2002, when he was elected Democratic leader of the state senate. “But that’s just something to say to make them feel better. When you have a disability you are not like everyone else. You are uniquely defined by a lack of vision.”

He can’t see at all out of his left eye, and his vision is 20/400 in his right eye, the Poughkeepsie Journal reports. That means Paterson needs to be within 20 feet to see what a person with normal vision sees from 400 feet away. The threshold for legal blindness in New York is 20/200 in the better eye with the best possible correction.
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netrox said:
He was NEVER popular and was elected JUST because of the scandal.

You're just a political troll.
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Then Patterson should be allowed to run and let the people decide....not Obama. It's nobody's business but Patterson's.
 
kokonut said:
Wow, a bonafide (legally) blind governor!
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There was a bunch of hype about him being the first legally blind governor. There was also a bunch of hype when SNL decided to do a skit of Gov. Paterson.

National Federation of the Blind of New York
Comments on Governor Paterson

Brooklyn, New York (March 17, 2008): Carl Jacobsen, president of the National Federation of the Blind of New York State, the state’s oldest and largest organization of blind people, said: “We congratulate David Paterson as he becomes our state’s next governor. Mr. Paterson’s accomplishments are a testimony to our philosophy, which says that with proper training and opportunity, blindness need not be a barrier to achievement. His career is an example to all blind children today. With dedication, training, and opportunity they too can achieve anything that their talents will allow. Our new governor’s long service in public life has demonstrated time and again the capabilities of blind people. His recognition and approval by his peers and the support of the voters of our state confirm his capability as a leader. He has proven, as we believe, that blindness is irrelevant when it comes to high achievement. We look forward to working with Governor Paterson and his administration to improve not only the lives of blind New Yorkers, but also those of every citizen of the Empire State.”
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'SNL' David Paterson skit: Offensive or hilarious?
by Mike Bruno
Categories: Saturday Night Live
The National Federation of the Blind and N.Y. Governor David Paterson say that Saturday Night Live crossed the line this weekend with its sketch featuring Fred Armisen playing the blind governor in a segment for Weekend Update with Seth Meyers (clip below). "The governor is sure that Saturday Night Live, with all of its talent, can find a way to be funny without being offensive," Paterson spokesman Errol Cockfield said in a statement Sunday. The National Federation of the Blind spokesman Chris Danielsen said the skit portrayed the governor as befuddled and disoriented and is "absolutely wrong." At this point, I think we actually count on SNL to ruffle feathers — but it has GOT to be funny as well. The Armisen bit relied on dumb blind-joke cliches, like Armisen’s Paterson unknowingly holding up a chart upside down. What’s more, do people outside of New York’s tristate area know enough about Paterson as a public servant to take away anything beyond the show’s attempt to find comedy in the befuddled, disoriented portrayal the Federation of the Blind mentions? I don’t mind an offensive joke, but without the actual joke part, it’s just plain offensive.
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I remember that SNL skit. I thought it was done in poor, poor taste. Those actors are going to realize that they're only temporarily abled in life.
 
kokonut said:
Then Patterson should be allowed to run and let the people decide....not Obama. It's nobody's business but Patterson's.
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people's already decided long time ago. they're saying GTFO!
 
kokonut... FYI - Paterson has 1 T in his name, not 2. :)
 
Yikes! I didn't know that an ear infection can spread to the optic nerve.
 
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