John Nichols, The Nation AlterNet: PEEK. March 13, 2008. Paterson has been handed a remarkable opportunity to be not just a state officials but a national leader.
Peter Rothberg, The Nation AlterNet: Video. March 11, 2008. His two most obvious, if not salient, features are that he's blind and he's black, which would make him the first blind governor in the country.
