Schenectady, NY – President Obama’s trip to the GE plant in Schenectady was the second time in less than two years that the President has visited upstate New York. And for the second time, the President gave a shout out to Andrew Cuomo.
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President Obama, praised then Attorney General Andrew Cuomo during a visit in Troy in the fall of 2009, as the President tried to discourage then Governor David Paterson from running for election. This time, in Schenectady, the President mentioned now Governor Cuomo at the start of his remarks, saying the two engaged in a friendly rivalry over the NFL play offs.
Governor Andrew Cuomo may have tried to pull the ultimate quarterback sneak on the President.
President Obama, a Chicago Bears fan, said Cuomo tried to give him a Jets cap during his tour of the GE Plant in upstate New York on Friday.
“If I’m not mistaken, Governor Cuomo, who is a going to be an outstanding governor, he just tried to give me a Jets hat,” Obama said during his stop in Schenectady, N.Y. “I had to refuse it. I had Secret Service confiscate it. But I will say both the Jets and the Bears are slight underdogs, so we’ll be rooting for the underdogs on Sunday.”
The Jets and Bears are both playing do-or-die playoff games Sunday that will determine who will go to the Super Bowl. Gang Green will face the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Bears will face the Green Bay Packers.
Cuomo did not comment to reporters.
The President is in lala-land.
nice thing the gov. and president meet and don’t have NE thing to talk about …accept of sports