David Patterson breaks down the verbal minefield of politics

At a breakfast forum in New York on Tuesday morning, New York Governor, David Patterson opined that “there are overtones of potential racial coding in the campaign.”

“I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama black in a sense that would be a negative,” Mr. Paterson said. “But you can take something about his life, which I noticed they did it in the Republican convention, a community organizer. They kept saying it, they kept laughing, like, what does this mean?”
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Patterson, when asked what other words might be “code”, continued on:

“Well, ‘athlete’ and ‘articulate’, ‘jumps high’, ‘poor outside shooter’, ‘Chocolate Thunder’ and of course, ‘In Your Face Disgrace’, ‘Dunk You Very Much’, ‘Turbo Sexophonic Delight’ and (deep breath) ‘Spine Chiller Supreme’… ‘Black Jesus’, ‘Robert Downey Jr.’ but not necessarily ‘Morton Downey Jr.’, ‘A hunka burnin’ chocolate love’, ‘cat’, ‘dog’, ‘hamster’, ‘sand’, ‘sky’, ‘Crab Nebula’, ‘Mayor of Detroit’ (ed. note: oops, scratch that), ‘Starting QB of the Jacksonville Jaguars’, ‘the anti-Michael J. Fox' (ed. note: now, that’s just not right), ‘two-deep zone’, ‘Pontiac’, ‘alternator’, ‘push-button’, ‘BBQ sauce’,….

...(reporter on restroom break)

….’two month layaway’, ‘telephone’, ‘digital technology’, ‘accountant’, ‘rock climber’ and of course, ‘rock thrower’, ‘florist’, ‘street sweeper’, ‘welding rod’, ‘Jupiter’, half of whatever Rush Limbaugh says, ‘dribble drive’, ‘the mustard fell off the hot dog’, ‘poor foul shooter’, ‘runs fast’, ‘couldn’t throw a pea in the Pacific’, ‘full layout with a twist’, ‘plays hoops’, ‘4x100m men’s relay’ but not ‘4x400m men’s relay’ though the ‘4x100m men’s freestyle relay’ is questionable, ‘good friends with Spike Lee’, ‘watches a lot of the WB’, ‘not fond of Bill Cosby or Ward Connerly’, ‘anthill’, ‘Benny Hill’, ‘Benny Goodman’, ‘John Goodman’….."

...(reporters begin to file-out)