Politics: Obama to Paterson: "Quit race." Paterson to Obama: "No."

Voicing concern over whether the currently unpopular governor of New York, David Paterson, who succeeded to office when Eliot Spitzer resigned, will drag down the ticket in the general election next year, and thus potentially affect control of Congress, President Obama has asked the incumbent not to run for a full term. (Paterson says he's running anyway.) This comes after the White House drove three more-progressive primary candidates out the race earlier in the year in order to protect Blue Dog Kirsten Gillibrand who was appointed to the U.S. Senate by Paterson, ironically over White House objections, when Hillary Clinton quit to go to State. Wonder how long New York Democrats will accept being dictated to by the national party.