This Thing Is Like That Thing: Deval Patrick Fails As Governor, So Barack Obama Is Unelectable

this thing is like that thing

Deval Patrick Fails As Governor, So Barack Obama Is Unelectable

Hey you know that handsome black politician who plagiarized Thomas Jefferson and likes to talk about hope? He is like that other guy, so an Obama presidency is as naturally doomed as the Patrick governorship.

The friendship between these two leaders made headlines last month when it was revealed they were such great buddies that they sort of talk like each other. To wit: Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said this thing once about all men being created equal, which Barack Obama stole, even though Founding Father Martin Luther King invented and copyrighted those very words.

The troubling pattern of similarities between Patrick and Obama surfaced again this month when Patrick lost a high-profile battle over resort casinos with Massachusetts Speaker of the House (and perennial douchebag) Sal DiMasi. You see, Patrick promised to bring "unity" to government but he failed, just like Barack Obama will fail when he is president, which he will never be because he cannot pre-emptively unify things.

Early Dazzle, Then Tough Path for a Governor [New York Times]

10:13 AM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Sara K. Smith
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by Serolf Divad at 10:23 AM on 03/27/08
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I hear Deval Patrick pisses his panties when the phone rings at 3:00 am... don't say I didn't warn you, America!
by CthulhuForPresident at 10:25 AM on 03/27/08
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They talk like one another? Is that like when chicks get their periods at the same time?
by Canuckledragger at 10:25 AM on 03/27/08
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Mark Penn just e-mailed me the same photo, but from the caption he supplied it's unclear who's who, so let me ask the deep knowledge base here: Which one's OJ?
by weazel at 10:27 AM on 03/27/08
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Pat Riley trademarked "Three-Peat", and someone has trademarked "Dream Team". So basically our entire language is for sale. FYI all you Wonkette commentators, I have copyrighted "take a drink when..."
by AngryBlakGuy at 10:30 AM on 03/27/08
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...notice the lack of a LAPEL PIN! Why is Duval Patrick an America hating, Muslim, misogynists, Black Panther leader who attends a racist church?!
by Gunfighter at 10:30 AM on 03/27/08
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It seems to me that someone who tries to make changes and faces a tough time of it is infinitely more desireable as a leader than someone who plans on doing the same old crap... and that's what you'd get from either Hillary or McCain.
by norbizness at 10:32 AM on 03/27/08
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Not only that, but the Southies are coming up to him in local diners and yelling something about him and whether he likes apples.
by FloraWay at 10:54 AM on 03/27/08
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But Obama is taller than him, so they're completely different.
by StoneSoup at 11:00 AM on 03/27/08
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America has had enough of articulate and thoughtful young African American leaders !

Elect Hillary.
by magneticfields at 11:00 AM on 03/27/08
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Not to be divisive, but are all state legislature power player douchebags Italian?
by weazel at 11:04 AM on 03/27/08
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There must Corey Booker incomeptence to be fabricated as well?
by ForTheTurnstiles at 11:05 AM on 03/27/08
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@magneticfields: In Idaho, they're all Mormon and ready for some super tubin'.
by TJBeck at 11:07 AM on 03/27/08
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RE-ELECT MITTENS
by optimistic_notreally at 11:11 AM on 03/27/08
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Oh no!!!! If you add Gov. Paterson with these two than you will have an officially gang. The Democratic National Convention will also include members of the crips and the bloods.
by TJBeck at 11:13 AM on 03/27/08
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And, I should point out something that Sara overlooked in her write-up:

Both these men are black. This is definitely something that's going unreported by the MSM. I hadn't noticed it unitl I looked closely at the picture today, but it's definitly there. Here it is, more illustrated:
by jagorev at 11:13 AM on 03/27/08
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Another thing that O'Bama and Patrick have in common is support from the Kennedys. It's a bleedin' Irish conspiracy, I tell ya.
by Laura Ingalls Wildest at 11:16 AM on 03/27/08
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As of a couple of weeks ago, here were the ten least popular governors, using Rasmussen favorability ratings:

Richardson (D) NM 40%
Blunt R MO 39%
Culver (D) IA 39%
Patrick (D) MA 38%
Rendell (D) PA 37%
Gibbons R NV 36%
Doyle (D) WI 36%
Schwarzenegger R CA 35%
Fletcher R KY 35%
O'Malley (D) MD 33%
Granholm (D) MI 29%
Corzine (D) NJ 25%
Eliot Spitzer (D) NY 22% (resigned)
Blagojevich (D) IL 16%
by Harvey Birdman at 11:18 AM on 03/27/08
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Black unifiers are like the Highlander - and we already have Oprah.
by Cape Clod at 11:23 AM on 03/27/08
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DeMasi isn't used to seeing black people at the State House. He keeps confusing Patrick with the guy who refills the snack machine.
by demtard at 11:29 AM on 03/27/08
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In all fairness, it takes living in Massachusetts to appreciate the fact that perennial douchebag DiMasi runs the show with his unopposed, veto-proof majority in both houses. The same could not be said of Pelosi or Reid.

End of comparison.
by weazel at 11:43 AM on 03/27/08
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Ingals:

Who the hell elected Billy Gibbons as their governor? I'd be disappointed too!
by thefrontpage at 11:50 AM on 03/27/08
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Please note yesterday's stories that officials and authorities and law enforcement officers and attorneys and investigators are investigating Salvatore "Arnie Palmer" DiMasi for alleged conflict of interest violations for hosting a golf tournament at which one of the biggest donaters is a firm that was awarded millions and millions of state dollars in contracts!!! Way to go, Sally!
by collegestudent at 11:51 AM on 03/27/08
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@weazel: Nevadans are disapointed. Gibbons isn't even good at having sex scandals. In fact, he didn't even have sex in his scandal and no hot, tattooed pictures came of it. So lame.
by Baiowulf at 11:57 AM on 03/27/08
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Sally Boy Dumbassi is to pork barrel politics what Christopher Moltisanti was to pork store polachs.
by FloraWay at 11:59 AM on 03/27/08
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@Laura Ingalls Wildest: It is nice to know that the state that I used to live in (IL) and the state I currently live in (IA) are both unhappy with their governors. But to be fair, Illinoians have every reason to hate Blagojevich. Iowans on the other hand, are just pissed because Culver proposed an increase on bottle and can deposits from 5 cents to 10 cents and wanted to include water bottles. Oh, and people in Iowa hate being told that they're fat and challenged to lose weight.
by shortsshortsshorts at 12:28 PM on 03/27/08
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@Laura Ingalls Wildest: You mean Client Nos. 9- 24?

And Schwarzenegger doesn't count because he is a foreign.
by Outstando at 12:29 PM on 03/27/08
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@Laura Ingalls Wildest: Didn't you used to be funny?
by JamesMichaelCurley at 12:44 PM on 03/27/08
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@Outstando:
And a list of fourteen of the 'ten least popular' governors.
by mookworthjwilson at 12:52 PM on 03/27/08
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@shortsshortsshorts: oooh...Granholm...kinda kinky...
by HalbertAlmus at 01:05 PM on 03/27/08
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Comment on Deval Patrick Fails As Governor, So Barack Obama Is Unelectable When is someone going to call out the NY Times for subtle racism and not so subtle pro-Hilaryism? This front page article on NOTHING but innuendo and (imagined) guilt by association was unacceptable journalism. For shame, Gray Lady!
by hazmaq at 01:19 PM on 03/27/08
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Oh! That must be why Brian Lamb of C-spam hasn't aired any of Obama's campaign speeches;

"I'm Shilly for Hillary".
Episode #87

Bush
McCain
Clinton
McCain
Clinton
Gingrich
Seen any of Obama's recent major policy speeches on c-spam in the past two weeks?

Oh, Wright...
by thefrontpage at 01:23 PM on 03/27/08
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Hey, these Obama and Patrick dudes don't hang out with Kwame Kilpatrick, Marion Barry and William Jefferson, do they?

Federally Required FCC Clarifier: *The above statement is intended as sarcastic, satirical humor and nothing else. Thank you.*
$Image of God\'s Noitalinmo$ by God's Noitalinmo at 02:30 PM on 03/27/08
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@Laura Ingalls Wildest: Link? I can only find a Rasmussen report showing favorability ratings of 33 govs, and they're not listed as the least or most favorable. As far as I know, there are as many as 17 governors with worse ratings than the ones evaluated by Rasmussen. But perhaps you have a report that I don't.

And 14 out of 10? Funny that your cutoff point starts with Richardson. An odd concidence for sure. A list of ten would have started with Rendell, right?
by san antone rose at 02:33 PM on 03/27/08
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@weazel: Yeah, I'm more of a Dusty Hill fan myself.
by homoelectus at 04:13 PM on 03/27/08
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omg the governor of new york is also black and cheated on his wife and did drugs. do you think this means obama is also a warlord?
by ProblemWithCaring at 05:33 PM on 03/27/08
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@TJBeck: I'm rolling!!
by ProblemWithCaring at 05:34 PM on 03/27/08
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@Laura Ingalls Wildest:

Irrationally, those are the only governors you here ever doing shit in their repsected states.

Go figure.
by SatiKaplaa at 06:23 PM on 03/27/08
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Comment on Deval Patrick Fails As Governor, So Barack Obama Is Unelectable Your articles is nonsense. Hillary Clinton has plaigiarized many many many times from New Hampshire right until last week. Sge plaigiarized a great British politician when she kept saying: " A politician is concerned about the next election, but a statesman is concerned about the next generation." Check it out . . . and the Republicans are waiting to drown her in a bucket of spit in the general elction. Wake up and stop talkking ignorance. She also plaigiarized Barack Obama when she stole his line about being the "Candidate of Change." Check it out, he was the firsdt one to say it in this campaign . . . so when she accused him of plaigiarizing that several professors threw their heads back and laughed saying how stupid her campaign people must be. More fodder for McCain and the Republican Swift Boat people. Get real! You are so stretching I will share this article with my university students and see how they walk on it as they leave the classroom. You must be a twit! **************Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15&ncid=aolhom00030000000001)