Live well, eat right, say your prayers, and swindle people on riverboats, and you too can grow up to be governor of your state. I was noting that, in a story on how, if Elliott Spitzer resigns as governor of New York, his Lt. Governor David Paterson would be the fourth black governor in the history of the United States. The CNN story has this paragraph: According to the National Governors' Association, previous African-American governors were P.B.S. Pinchback, who served as acting governor... read more