Story: Richardson still being pursued by both campaigns

[scheming daemons]

The money quote, for me:

“Come on, Bill, we’ll make history, man,” Mr. Obama told Mr. Richardson, the governor said. “Me, you and Teddy”


Good stuff. Hillary and Barack both come off looking good.


Link here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23303147/

[Johnny__Motown]

1. Bill and Bill watched the Super bowl together, no endorsement yet.

Hmmm....

[MadBadger]

2. Great Article. If Richardson hadnt worked for Bill, he would have endorsed Obama already.

[MADem]

3. Richardson won't do anything as long as Clinton is at all viable.

I think he will wait until the handwriting is on the wall. He's pragmatic, but he's not disloyal.

It's a nice quality in the man.

Since ending his own run for the White House, Mr. Richardson has entered what he calls “a period of decompression.” He has grown a beard, ridden his beloved horse, Sundance, and started going to art museums around New Mexico again and to boxing matches in Las Vegas. He is sleeping about seven hours a night, up from four on the campaign trail, yet somehow looks more tired, as if the accumulated wear of the last year has taken residence in his eyes.

He said he missed running for president “a great deal,” but he is trying to get on with the business of New Mexico. Yes, he admits thinking about being someone’s running mate, or maybe secretary of state.

“I can’t preclude it,” the 60-year-old governor said. “But I’m not pining for it, and if it doesn’t happen, I’ve had a great life. I’m at peace with myself.”

In their courtship of Mr. Richardson, both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama are skilled and nonpressuring, their efforts appropriate, he said. They make no implicit suggestions of future jobs or favors. Sometimes they talk issues, usually a bit about the state of the race......“I feel a great deal of personal loyalty to the Clintons,” Mr. Richardson said several times in the interview, his face betraying the agony of indecision as much as fondness. He went on to describe Mr. Obama as “remarkable,” “someone I like very much” and a leader “who is creating something that’s really good in this country.”

Mr. Richardson, seeming entirely genuine, repeated that he was “genuinely torn.” He did, however, vote on Feb. 5 in the New Mexico caucus, eventually won by Mrs. Clinton after more than a week of counting. He will not say how he cast his vote, allowing only that it was not for himself.

[NastyRiffraff]

4. He's a good man, and would make a great VP

If Obama wins, I hope he'll choose a smart, experienced VP, and will be willing to LISTEN to him or her. He has a lot to learn.

But, a Clinton/Richardson ticket would be a winner :)

[KhaOZ]

5. I dissagree. I think he has a lot to teach. We no longer want that same old Washington.

[bklyncowgirl]

6. Nice story, Richardson seems like a man at peace with himself--and enjoying the attention too.

He may not have won the nomination but he seems a lock for Mr. Congeniality--and I like the beard. Maybe he should have worn it during the campaign. I saw another picture of him where he actually looked, well, sexy.

Looking at that picture he seems to be having a good time--Bill Clinton--not so much--or maybe New England just scored and I'm reading too much into it. I get the impression that John Edwards isn't enjoying being the most sought after date for the prom quite as much as Richardson.

All of the candidates and their surrogates (except for that one unnamed Clinton supporter) come off well in this article. Nice.

[NoBushSpokenHere]

7. Wasn't it Richardson who ordered the shredding of ballots in 2004?

If my memory serves me correctly, he refused to recount New Mexico and shredded the ballots before the suit was won to recount. Why would anyone want him as VP? Oh, thats right, there wasn't much media coverage of this... and the candidates are banking on America forgetting...

We don't forget injustices...

[NoBushSpokenHere]

9. Links

the rest ... went into the neverland of the hidden archives of the internets, I suppose?


http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=MISCOUNT-NM-12-22-04&cat=AN

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0501/S00152.htm

Warren Stewart: What Are They Hiding in New Mexico
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 10:33 am
Opinion: Warren Stewart


What Are They Hiding in New Mexico?

By Warren Stewart
National Ballot Integrity Project
In the shadow of overwhelming irregularities in the Ohio’s election, New Mexico has played out it’s own post-election drama almost unnoticed by anyone outside the state. Even before the November 2, New Mexico had been in the news for reports of malfunctioning voting machines and other problems. Hundreds of incidents were reported on Election Day. The state got some national attention for once again leading the nation in undervote rate. All this coupled with a small margin of victory in the presidential race (just 3/4 of 1%) led to concern about the accuracy of the results.

[JTFrog]

8. He would not make a great V.P.

Ever since finding out about his involvement in Bill's hyped-up WMD Iraq crap I don't want him anywhere near the whitehouse. Clinton/Richardson would be like Bush/Cheney when it comes to foreign policy.

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0303-23.htm

See Hillary Run (from Her Husband's Past on Iraq)
by Scott Ritter

Senator Hillary Clinton wants to become President Hillary Clinton. "I'm in, and I'm in to win," she said, announcing her plans to run for the Democratic nomination for the 2008 Presidential election. Let there be no doubt that Hillary Clinton is about as slippery a species of politician that exists, one who has demonstrated an ability to morph facts into a nebulous blob which blurs the record and distorts the truth. While she has demonstrated this less than flattering ability on a number of issues, nowhere is it so blatant as when dealing with the issue of the ongoing war in Iraq and Hillary Clinton's vote in favor of this war.

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I sat in the office of then US Ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, as the United States cut a deal with then-United Nations Special Commission Executive Chairman Richard Butler, where the timing and actions of an inspection team led my myself (a decision which was personally approved by Bill Clinton) would be closely linked to a massive US aerial bombardment of Iraq triggered by my inspection. I was supposed to facilitate a war by prompting Iraqi non-compliance. Instead, I did my job and facilitated an inspection that pushed the world closer to a recognition that Iraq was complying with its disarmament obligation. As a reward, I was shunned form the inspection process by the Clinton administration.

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Scott Ritter served as a former Marine Corps officer from 1984 until 1991, and as a UN weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 until 1998. He is the author of several books, including "Iraq Confidential" and "Target Iran". He also co-authored "War on Iraq" with William Pitt.