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Will New York Gov. David Paterson ever stop torturing the people of the Empire State with his dopey actions and statements?
The latest example came this week when the "Accidental Governor" told a radio interviewer that he now regrets dropping out of the race for a full term as governor.
Paterson's new found bravado comes by way of a judge's decision earlier in the week to not charge Paterson with criminal wrongdoing, when he interfered in the domestic violence case of his former top aide.
Forget for a second the fact that the judge did find Paterson engaged in "inappropriate conduct" by contacting the abuse victim. Also forget that polls showed Paterson had virtually no base of support left when he decided to drop out of the race.
Now Paterson is staying he would like to have stuck around in office to fix the financial crisis that crippled his administration.
Paterson critics, especially New York's tabloids, are being unfair for blaming Paterson for the money mess that wrecked his administration. The seeds of New York's financial meltdown were planted long ago and unfortunately came to bloom under Paterson's watch.
But the man who took office only because Eliot Spitzer couldn't keep it zipped when he needed to has never showed he could lead the state back to fiscal health.
Paterson, the state's first black governor, spent most of his term ducking a stream of controversies and refilling his cabinet because several of his closest aides abandoned his administration.
Sadly, about the only right decision Paterson made in recent months was to drop out of the race for a full term and let a more able administrator take over the reins of government. Now he says he would undo that.
Incredible.
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