Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is bailing water after remarks he made about then-Senator Barack Obama surfaced in the new book Game Change. Reid reportedly said that Obama's prospects as a presidential candidate were good, because America was ready for a black president who was "light-skinned" with no "Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." Today Governor Paterson chimed in, telling reporters, "I thought the comments not only were reprehensible, but it's amazing to think to print a whole book, that so many people saw, and nobody noticed that this ill-chosen remark was in the book? Didn't anybody read the book before they put it out? I find it kind of shocking." Yeah, how could publishers let that controversial, headline-grabbing quote slip through?! Paterson stopped short of calling for Reid's head, maintaining that "when people properly apologize for these types of mistakes that it doesn't merit destroying their careers."