****ing DAVID PATTERSON! We get conservatives to endorse the move and on the same day the GOVERNOR OF NY decides to side with the weak. No wonder this guy is down in the polls so badly.

Are you kidding? NYC deserves to have the trials, here. Look, we hosted the RNC convention: obviously we don't scare easily.

Paterson is just such a terrible politician. Its amazing to me that he has gotten so far ahead. Really, every time I see him interviewed, I am overwhelmed by my sense of how awful he is at political rhetoric. Telling New Yorkers that they are too weak and traumatized to try the perpetrators of a direct attack on their city is not something that is going to play well to anyone within the City limits. Who the hell advises this guy?

What a freaking d-league, moronic thing to say... and how thoroughly poignant it is coming from such an unpopular politician. Gee, David, think there's a reason for that? Think that maybe BS like this is the reason people want you out of office?

Even if I was a Republican, I'd be groaning at this crap.

Where's your goddamned loyalty and horse-sense when it comes to knowing what battles to fight?

If he genuinely believed that it was bad policy to try terrorists in NY, keep it to your fucking self when the opposition party is clearly using that talking point, scaremongering exaggeration to degrade Obama and Democrats.

Lame. Not even an imaginative way to stick Obama for the "don't run" flap.

I am seriously, seriously ashamed by the cowardice that seems endemic in this country.

The cowardice shown by so many of our so-called leaders is frightening. That Paterson thinks he's going to improve his sorry political standing--and pay back the White House for suggesting he not run again--shows a lack of imagination and courage.

"This is not a decision that I would have made," said Patterson

Patterson is legally blind.

How shall we demonstrate to the world that the man we tortured and seek to execute is the right man, the actual planner of the 9/11 attacks, rather than a fantasist who seeks credit for a crime he did not commit? In a closed military tribunal? Or by trial in public, with the protections that our laws and constitution afford? The Justice Department has commendably chosen the latter.

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Perhaps Gov. Paterson would prefer that the terrorists be tried in, say, Guatemala or Iceland, which WEREN'T so badly traumatized?

Is TPM serious?...Governor Paterson will say anything at this point to win re-election. And when u dig deeper into the CNN poll, the poll reveals that 60% of respondents believe the terror suspects should be tried in the united states as appose to us territory. CNN has a credibility issue, so i wouldn't put too much stock into the poll.

If Patterson wasn't disabled, I'd threaten to punch him in his face. I'm a lifelong New Yorker and I'm no coward. Bring those scumbags on. They don't scare me. Patterson's a fool and he pisses me off, talking like this. He's no New Yorker if he thinks New Yorkers can't take it.

I'm sick of Republicans twisting everything into a moral issue where they're always on the side of right, and all Democratic politicians do is trip over their own feet and half-heartedly respond. I understand that right-wing authoritarians have a distinct advantage, being ruthless demagogues, but surely Democratic politicans aren't suicidal?

Oh, wait, I forgot: all they have to do is stay in office long enough line up cushy private-sector gigs for themselves and all their friends and relatives, and the Democrats could give a crap if their party loses power...

As has been pointed out, the healthcare issue could easily have been a moral issue for Democrats. So could worker rights, gay rights and climate change. But these nitwits have let themselves be out-defined and out-media-played at every turn.

Somebody call George Clooney and tell him to come back from Darfur... we're all refugees at this point in our own freaking country.

Goddamn it Spitzer, why couldn't ya just keep it in your pants? >_

"This is not a decision that I would have made,"

Which is why we have people like the Attorney General deciding. You know, a smart person appointed by the President to do the work of the chief US prosecutor. Who the F cares what the back-up governor of NY would have decided?