Hillary is gonna be soooooooooo pissed!

Woo Hoo!

Spud's been staying on top of a lot of this race but quite frankly Spud really didn't see this one coming.

Spud thought fer sure that Edwards was gonna declare his endorsement for Obama before Richardson did (if BR didn't come out fer Helldawg, that is) and now Edwards is looking less and less relevant to either campaign.

Where's Corky?

Spud wants to rub his nose in it!

This couldn't have come at a better time.

Be Well.

The governor's endorsement comes as Obama leads among delegates selected at primaries and caucuses but with national public opinion polling showing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton pulling ahead of him amid controversy over statements by his former pastor.

Richardson has been relentlessly wooed by Obama and Clinton for his endorsement. As a Democratic superdelegate, the governor plays a part in the tight race for nominating votes and could bring other superdelegates to Obama's side. He also has been mentioned as a potential running mate for either candidate.

No primaries are scheduled until Pennsylvania's on April 22, a gap in time Obama hopes to use for such announcements to assert that he is the front-runner for the nomination.

"I believe he is the kind of once-in-a-lifetime leader that can bring our nation together and restore America's moral leadership in the world," Richardson said in a statement obtained by the AP. "As a presidential candidate, I know full well Sen. Obama's unique moral ability to inspire the American people to confront our urgent challenges at home and abroad in a spirit of bipartisanship and reconciliation."

Richardson's endorsement also could help Obama pick up support among Hispanics, who are the nation's largest and fastest-growing minority.

Clinton has been the favorite of Hispanics in primaries and caucuses, according to exit polls. She won the New Mexico caucus in early February with a nearly 2-to-1 advantage among Hispanics.

Richardson backed Obama despite his ties to Clinton and her husband, the former president. He served as ambassador to the U.N. and as secretary of the Energy Department during the Clinton administration. Last month, Richardson and former President Clinton watched the Super Bowl together at the governor's residence in Santa Fe.

Richardson praised Hillary Clinton as a "distinguished leader with vast experience." But the governor said Obama "will be a historic and great president, who can bring us the change we so desperately need by bringing us together as a nation here at home and with our allies abroad."

Richardson was a roving diplomatic troubleshooter when he was a congressman from New Mexico, negotiating the release of U.S. hostages in several countries and meeting with a rogue's gallery of U.S. adversaries, including Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro.

"There is no doubt in my mind that Barack Obama has the judgment and courage we need in a commander in chief when our nation's security is on the line. He showed this judgment by opposing the Iraq war from the start, and he has show it during this campaign by standing up for a new era in American leadership internationally," Richardson said.

Obama said he was "deeply honored" to have Richardson's support.

"Whether it's fighting to end the Iraq war or stop the genocide in Darfur or prevent nuclear weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists, Gov. Richardson has been a powerful voice on issues of global security, peace and justice, earning five Nobel Peace Prize nominations," Obama said in a statement.

Will Bill Richardson help Obama capture the elusive Hispanic vote?

Si se Puente!

/obligatory

Be Well.

Could John Edwards be far behind?

Hillary can't catch up. May be time to put an end to the drama. McCain's sitting pretty all by himself.

It's time to bring this to an end.

Secretary of State Richardson? I can't think of a better person for the job.

Could John Edwards be far behind?

He was on Leno last night and I was hoping he would make some kind of announcement, but alas it was boring.

Anyway, if Edwards comes out and then Gore were to follow up, they would all be portrayed as evil women hating men by the Clinton camp. John Edwards is to pretty to be labled a woman hater.

Bill Richardson?
He's Hispanic?
Endorsing Obama?
Just what you'd expect from a Tio Taco.
He probably puts ketchup on his enchiladas.
Patria o muerte!
Hasta la victoria siempre!
Saludos,
Corky

This is a dagger in the heart of Clinton.

Richardson would be a better Sec of State than VP, but Obama needs Bill as VP.

but Obama needs Bill as VP.

No way is Bill Richardson VP on this ticket, especially after this Wright ordeal. Obama is going to have to find the milkiest of milk-toast male to run with him as VP.

"No way is Bill Richardson VP on this ticket, especially after this Wright ordeal. Obama is going to have to find the milkiest of milk-toast male to run with him as VP."

Even before the "Wright ordeal" it wuold have been difficult to have two minorities at teh same time int eh ticket.

Will Hillary be reduced to begging for the VP slot??

I hope so.

With Obama/Hillary ticket we can't lose

Tax,
I didn't consider that. I think Obama needs somebody in the VP slot that has Richardsons experience, and I don't know of any other Dem that even comes close.
The "hispanic" angle IMO wouldn't have been a big deal except for the fact that Bill announced his Presidential run on hispanic radio in California as opposed to regular radio in New Mexico. The pandering on top of Wright is probably a bad combo as you initially said.

"McCain's sitting pretty all by himself"

i think obama should shift most of his attention on mccain

let hillary attack obama, all obama will have to say is "look, hillary and i are on the same side, mccain is the one both of us have to defeat in order to really win. If mccain wins, both of us have lost."

focus on mccains more of the mcsame
focus on mccains mcflipflops
focus on mccains obsession with occupation
talk about how level headed his iraq strategy really is and about how he's not ending the war on terrorism but shifting it back to the terrorists home base of afghanistan and with the aid of pakistans government those taking sanctuary in waziristan.

at least obama pronounces the names of countries correctly. it might help in diplomacy if you can pronounce the name of the country you are being diplomatic with. stop calling countries by their apple steve jobs versions

iROCK, iRAN

"Will Hillary be reduced to begging for the VP slot??

I hope so."

And I hope that after she begs, Obama looks at her and laughs in her face.

BTW, I can't get the image and sound out of my head of Hilary at one of her rallies screaming in a hoarse voice "Will you help me?" over and over. It was the most annoying thing I've seen this campaign season and I suspect that a few more of her supporters saw it too and thought..."hmmm...maybe that Obama guy ain't so bad after all."

With Hillary I think we have a better chance of winning. I just don't want her as the prez. I'll let her give me my universal healthcare though.

"I know full well Sen. Obama's unique moral ability to inspire the American people..."

That must be the morals he learned from the Rev Wrong.

We have seen just how much endorsements have mattered in this race, and this one won't recapture the lead in the national polls for Barackoli.

Edwards VP, Richardson SecState?

But it still doesn't matter much, sadly. I know others have said it, and it disgusts me to do so, but:

"President McCain. Get used to it."

*washes mouth out with Lava soap*

"Barackoli"

Posted by Corky at 2008-03-21 09:28 AM | R

That's racist.

I think Obama needs somebody in the VP slot that has Richardsons experience, and I don't know of any other Dem that even comes close.

I completely agree which is why I think Biden would work but he may be to "elite". Obama is going to need to pick someone who appeals to the blue-collar crowd.

"That's racist"

Barackoli Haters Unite!

Paid for by the Anti-Greens Party.

Obama is going to need to pick someone who appeals to the blue-collar crowd.

Posted by taxman at 2008-03-21 09:58 AM | Reply

Wouldn't that be Hillary? The Clinton campaign has been bragging for months that they appeal to a bunch of knuckle-dragging, mouthbreathing morons while Obama's appeal is allegedly among latte-sipping, Saab-driving elitists.

Plus, Hillary has "35 years" of experience under her belt.

Also, Hillary's boxey, canary yellow, Chairman Mao-esque pantsuits are the perfect contrast to Barack's more stylish attire.

I'd say that is perfect balance.

Anton, I think Obama will be obliged to offer, if he gets the nomination, but, as Corky has noted, she will not accept.

shove Hillary on the VP ticket. Obama/Hillary is the way to go. We can defeat the war machine.

We can defeat the war machine.

Posted by messiah at 2008-03-21 10:10 AM | Reply

Hillary is a part of that machine.

Anton well she has seen error of her ways not like endless war mccain

"Obama is going to need to pick someone who appeals to the blue-collar crowd."

Jim Webb from VA?

Perhaps the most logical VP choice for Obama to make at this juncture is...........

Nancy Pelosi.

No one can say she doesn't have experience and she puts Hillary's claims to shame in the process, having been a self-made woman in her own right.

If this were to happen soon, it would put the final nail in Hillary's coffin.

Tony, no way can he pick Pelosi. She is definitely an elitist who doesn't appeal to the blue-collar crowd. McCaskill may work or what's her name out of Kansas.

Anton well she has seen error of her ways not like endless war mccain

Posted by messiah at 2008-03-21 10:14 AM | Reply

Maybe.

Or, maybe she is pandering to the electorate in Democratic party primaries.

I don't trust her at all.

NAFTA, shilling for Wal-Mart, support for the Iraq war, total flop at health care reform, questionable ethics, all add up to a big "No" from me.

McCaskill may work or what's her name out of Kansas.

Posted by taxman at 2008-03-21 10:27 AM | Reply |

Well, it's Missouri.

But, what the hell's the difference way out there in the middle of nowhere?

SA, I have liked Webb for a while but I don't know if he has the appeal factor Obama is going to need. I know he has the military history, which will be a plus against McCain, but he is going to need someone who can pull in the Mid-Westerners, IMO.

Evan Bayh??

No Anton, there is another female governor out of Kansas like Seibulus or something - I don't feel like googling.

Evan Bayh??

Clinton ties.

No Anton, there is another female governor out of Kansas like Seibulus or something - I don't feel like googling.

Posted by taxman at 2008-03-21 10:30 AM | Reply

Oh, yeah, you're right about that. I think it's Kathleen Sebelius.

I don't see McCaskill running as VP. She likes being a Senator. The Governor of Kansas should be making sleep tapes for insomniacs. Obama needs a white guy with a carry on. (No baggage)

General wesley clark might be able to swing red states to blue. he knows his stuff when it comes to the military

General wesley clark

Clinton ties.

Tony, no way can he pick Pelosi. She is definitely an elitist who doesn't appeal to the blue-collar crowd.

Last time I checked, her positives were extremely high across America even though there's consternation with what Congress wasn't able to do. She did not turn out to be the "San Francisco liberal" that the rightwing tried to turn her into. She truly has the foreign policy experience that Hillary doesn't, and she's sat with the leaders in the ME and told them how it is. She'd be a strong VP and an obvious force with Congress that Obama might need.

None of the other women have the breadth of international experience that she does, and her age, being in the 60s negates another factor driving Hillary.

I'm not saying its a perfect choice, but I don't see another female that Obama could conceivably pick and not foster fears of "too much change" for one election.

If not her, I've always been partial to Jim Webb because he embodies the populism of Edwards without the anger, and his defense bonafides are even more solid than McCain's since he was a former Sec of the Navy and a foot soldier in Vietnam, not a flyboy who saw the war from 10,000 feet and doesn't understand ground war in the same way that Webb does.

I guess the Gov of Kansas it is. Even though some of these people support Clinton you really think they would turn down the chance to be VP?

I think the best case scenario is that Edward would support Obama and we get an Obama/edwards ticket

Perhaps the most logical VP choice for Obama to make at this juncture is...........

Nancy Pelosi.

Posted by tonyroma

What are you smokin' Tony? Talk about chomping into the poison apple. BR as VP is not bad. Joe Biden as SecState and Chucky Hagel as SecDef. And since she so into health care Hillery as SecHHS. She would never do it; she'd rather stay in the Senate. Round it out with Warren Buffet Treasury and the Govenator at Homeland Security (not really).

To be honest Tony, Nancy Pelosi on the ticket would make even me stop and think twice. I think she has done a terrible job leading the house and her image around the country is not good, overall.

Hillary being VP could be a huge plus, for Hillary. She get's to be in office for 4 to 8 years, and she'll have plenty of incentive for them to be good years, then potentially a presidential bid after that. She's not that old.

Very timely news! Awesome.

AS for Hillary she doesn't even deserve a VP offer as far as I am concerned. Obama will probably not laugh in her face as he is above that type of behavior.

She is using the old tactic of Dividing and conquer and by doing so she is destroying the party and making it more and more difficult as time goes on to regain the White House....

I am sure she is behind pushing this Wright affair. She had an opportunity to distance herself and support Obama... something McCain did... but she chose not too.

She has shown her true colors...if she can't win she will make sure Obama can't either.

Actually Donner, her plan is to take down Obama so she can win. She needs the SD's to win, and she has to make him seemingly unwinnable. That is the only way she can 'win'. That more Dems don't have a problem with this is surprising to me.

But Obama could perhaps heal the divide created on purpose by Hillary by having her as VP.

If Richardson had endorsed Obama before the Texas primary it might have made a difference. Now not so much.

Chris Matthews makes a pertinent analogy. The Republicans are the folks who show up early before a movie starts, find their seats and settle down. The Dems come in after the movie has started and the lights are down with popcorn and soda and asking what has happened so far.

In this case Richardson could have helped Obama in Texas with the Latino vote but he was too busy deciding if wanted extra butter or M&Ms.

The guy Obama needs now is Edwards, but even that might be too late. The credits will roll before he makes up his mind. Until then he'll be fixing his hair.

The Republicans are the folks who show up early before a movie starts, find their seats and settle down. The Dems come in after the movie has started and the lights are down with popcorn and soda and asking what has happened so far.

Posted by OzarkAggie at 2008-03-21 11:45 AM | Reply

The more important question is which persuasion is more likely to talk out loud during the movie?

BTW, I can't get the image and sound out of my head of Hilary at one of her rallies screaming in a hoarse voice "Will you help me?" over and over. It was the most annoying thing I've seen this campaign season and I suspect that a few more of her supporters saw it too and thought..."hmmm...maybe that Obama guy ain't so bad after all."

~Danni.

Agreed. Desperation is not a good look on anyone and on Hill, as steeped in her own "inevitability" with attendent cult of personality as she was, it looks even worse.

Spud -- I beat you to this at 6:05AM, but seems you got the headline even though you logged in 2 hrs later. Scoop Spud you be!

~T&C

Actually, Spud submitted this just before 1 a.m. Pacific before going to bed last night/this morning, hence the time stamp on the first post of 3:41 a.m. Eastern.

Spud imagine that the time above refers to when the blog-god moved it onto the front page and fixed the original headline "In yer face, Corky!" to the current more informative one. Darn that Rcade and his W5 journo-ethics.

She's not that old

~Big John.

Hillary is 61. She's not too old to be a Senator and not too old to be Veep but she is too old to be POTUS. Not that that so-called "Dream Ticket" is ever gonna emerge, just saying. More than her age she's too inculcated, too co-opted by the process at this time to be on the ticket even as a Veep. This election cycle is about change and both Hill and McCain represent the status quo and an old school "say anything" style of inauthentic pandering politics the likes of which have lead America to it's current sorry state.

Do. Not. Want.

Can. Not. Afford.

08ama '08.

Si se Puente!

Be Well.

The more important question is which persuasion is more likely to talk out loud during the movie?

Posted by anton at 2008-03-21 11:49 AM

That would be the dems, they have the black vote!


OOOOOHHH SNAPPPPPPPP!

But Obama could perhaps heal the divide created on purpose by Hillary by having her as VP.

Posted by bigjohn_1972 at 2008-03-21 11:42 AM

possibly and Obama is much wiser about these things than I but after seeing her behavior I don't feel she deserves it anymore.

I have basically always supported the Clinton's but I am beginning to really not like her at all.

...Hilary(sic) at one of her rallies screaming in a hoarse voice

I have never trusted her motives (and the fact that she enabled Bush in his Crusade) and she is starting to sound shrill to me also...

That would be the dems, they have the black vote!

OOOOOHHH SNAPPPPPPPP!

Posted by bigjohn_1972 at 2008-03-21 12:23 PM | Reply

Oh no you dih-int!



BTW: I don't think Hillary has the "black vote" anymore.

"I have basically always supported the Clinton's but I am beginning to really not like her at all."

Welcome to the club. I always supported them and started out the primary season as a Hilary supporter. I even thought the press was being unfair to her back during the SC primaries but since then she has alienated my completely and I have become an Obama supporter. So far he has not said or done anything that I felt was unethical.

That reminds me of a Dave Chappelle joke. He said if he was running for president, he would choose a Mexican American running mate. So if anyone had any idea's of offing him, they'd have to deal with the Mexican!!

How ironic that would be if Obama chose Bill as a running mate!

RICHARDSON:
But I think superdelegates should vote according to who they represent. If somebody's appointed as a superdelegate because they're Hispanic or a governor, they should pay attention to what their voters and their constituencies are saying.

so at the convention he will vote HC??? i'm confused

That reminds me of a Dave Chappelle joke. He said if he was running for president, he would choose a Mexican American running mate. So if anyone had any idea's of offing him, they'd have to deal with the Mexican!!

How ironic that would be if Obama chose Bill as a running mate!

Posted by bigjohn_1972 at 2008-03-21 01:39 PM | Reply

The funny thing is that Richardson may be the slickest move Obama can make. It's not like the average bigot is going to run screaming from the voting booth when he sees the name "Bill Richardson" on the ballot -- particularly when it's underneath a name like "Barack Obama."That's balance.

Also, regarding those whom his "race" really matters, they are already aware that "Bill Richardson" (despite his milquetoast name) actually can do the "Hat Dance" with the best of them.

I wasn't even aware Richardson was Hispanic until last year. I doubt most voters even know that fact.

AU, until in the first debate when he says:

"Well, as a Mexican American .... "

Isn't someone going to come here and say Richardson is drinking 'Obamaid', that he's a cultist, that he's all the other names we other Obama supporters have been called by this particular person for months?

I'm thinking of a material you stick pins and tacks in. Brown, soft, super lightweight....

Unusual move on Richardson's part. He literally owes his entire career to President Clinton.
"Et tu, Richardson?" -- says Hillary.

The 'Obamaid' is an insult to more than half of the dems though. He has more than half the popular votes and more delegates. To say anyone who supports him is drinking Obamaid is a slap in the face of intelligent people.

Now saying Hillary is trying to ruin Obama and take down the party with her all for the glorification of her massive ego, well that's another thing entirely (because that's what's going on!) lol

BFD...Hillary won NM. Teddy really helped her win MA...but, it's all moot, since it will be President McCain come November.

BIGJOHN

I was referring to a nefarious poster here (fellow Dem) who's a Hillary supporter making a total ass of him/her self by bashing Obama and his supporters - posting 2 Obama bash threads a day. Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder, Paranoid/Delusional - to name the first two possible diagnoses that come to mind. Sick puppy. Guess Richardson and Dodd must be as well in his/her book.

In response to Penn, Richardson makes a point of saying that he didn't like the people the Clinton's surround themselves with.

"I resent the fact that the Clinton people are now saying that my endorsement is too late because I only can help with Texans -- with Texas and Hispanics, implying that that's my only value," the New Mexico governor told CNN's John King. "That's typical of some of his advisers that kind of turned me off."

Bill Richardson is truly a serial brown-noser.
First he kisses Hillary's ass; now he tries to run interference for Obama's blacKKK pastor's rantings.

BR: another moral idiot selling his soul.

"I resent the fact that the Clinton people are now saying that my endorsement is too late because I only can help with Texans -- with Texas and Hispanics, implying that that's my only value," the New Mexico governor told CNN's John King. "That's typical of some of his advisers that kind of turned me off."

Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2008-03-21 08:22 PM

OOOOHHH SNAAPPPPPPP! lol

Because they have to go negative, they have to beat Obama down, it's the only way they can win!

Anton well she has seen error of her ways not like endless war mccain


haha. "She has seen the error of her ways"

That's fucking hilarious! Outstanding, even.

Oh to be young and naive again.

iROCK, iRAN
Posted by klifferd


HAHA ! Kliff it's even worse than that. I've noticed huge numbers of people say iRACK.

thestar.com.my

that is one scary looking lady

Posted by messiah


Nurse Ratched on meth & X

why doesn't the back stabbing prick follow the "will of the people" that voted for hillary in his own state?

sort of quiets the clamor for the ones that voted with the popular vote in their respective states.

The dems have made a mega cluster fuck out of this whole primary using caucus, elections and super delegates..

should just have a general election and winner take all.

Say hello to President McCain in 2009.

leave it to the dems to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

I have a question for Mark Penn:

How is it that the Clinton's on one hand sought Richardson's endorsement (to the point of Bill inviting himself to Richardson's for the Super Bowl), and on the other hand saying the endorsement doesn't matter when your candidate didn't get it?

-----------

LEGIO

It's a long way from here to November. Right now very few are paying attention to elections - just us political junkies. American's only have a 1 week attention span.

When the fall campaign comes most Americans will start to pay attention. Then they'll ask themselves the famous question Ronald Reagan asked:

"Are you better off than you were 8 years ago"

McCain's team isn't on the winning side of that question.

"Are you better off than you were 8 years ago"

/Reagan impersonation on

There you go again...

/Reagan impersonation off

or to put that another way...

"It's teh economy stOOpid!"

The economy sucketh mightily!

Why?

12 Billion dollars a month being flushed down a hole in Iraq (not to mention lives and limbs and American credibility)plus an era of unprecendented corporate criminality fostered by the fuckwits of BushCo.

McLames solution?

More of the same!

Do Not WANT!

Now all America gotsta do is put it in the bag fer Obama and then maybe the SDs can get Helldawg to shut her flipping cakehole and quit shooting the Dem party in the foot.

Seriously, Helldawg is doing more damage to the Dems than McLame.

Si se puente!

08ama '08.

Be Well.

According to Richardson in a CNN interview yesterday, when he called Hillary to tell her he was endorsing Obama, the conversation got a little "heated". Sure would have liked to be a fly on the wall to hear what she really said.

Sure would have liked to be a fly on the wall to hear what she really said.

Posted by Gal_Tuesday


probably something like..."FU wetback"

Spud are you doin' wordplay? "Si se puente" translates as something like "it bridges" or "it bridges itself"

If you are not engaging in wordplay, then maybe the phrase you are looking for is "si se puede" which means "yes it can be done."

Also, campaign rhetoric notwithstanding, you will indeed get "more of the same" even if Clinton or Obama gets elected POTUS.