First a Tense Talk With Clinton, Then Richardson Backs Obama By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY

[Demeter]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/us/politics/22richardson.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin



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PORTLAND, Ore. — “I talked to Senator Clinton last night,” Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico said on Friday, describing the tense telephone call in which he informed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton that, despite two months of personal entreaties by her and her husband, he would be endorsing Senator Barack Obama for president.

“Let me tell you: we’ve had better conversations,” Mr. Richardson said.

The decision by Mr. Richardson, who ended his own presidential campaign on Jan. 10, to support Mr. Obama was a belt of bad news for Mrs. Clinton. It was a stinging rejection of her candidacy by a man who had served in two senior positions in President Bill Clinton’s administration, and who is one of the nation’s most prominent elected Hispanics. Mr. Richardson came back from vacation to announce his endorsement at a moment when Mrs. Clinton’s hopes of winning the Democratic nomination seem to be dimming.

But potentially more troublesome for Mrs. Clinton was what Mr. Richardson said in announcing his decision. He criticized the tenor of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign. He praised Mr. Obama for the speech he gave in response to the furor over racially incendiary remarks delivered by Mr. Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

And he came close to doing what Mrs. Clinton’s advisers have increasingly feared some big-name Democrat would do as the battle for the nomination drags on: Urge Mrs. Clinton to step aside in the interest of party unity.

[bluestateguy]

1. Nagourney is a propagator of Manhattan Cocktail Party gibberish

nt

[Demeter]

2. Quotations Can't Be Faked in Journalism

Except for national security purposes, of course!

[Joe Bacon]

7. Ad Nags is your typical G-O-PRE$$TITUTE

I still remember when the Screw York Times actually fired somebody for making up things. Not anymore.

[anamandujano]

3. Apparently Richardson has not taken note of the dirty tactics of the

Obama campaign. Talk about cheap shots, helping Mr. Clean reinforce his attempt to label Hillary's campaign. The MSM was doing nothing to vet Obama. She had to ask all the questions. The recent criticism of Obama's life choices had zip to do with her. Got to love the way Richardson tries to turn the Wright and Rezko bombshells into a bad bad Hillary story, reminiscent of Bush's dui story spun as a dirty Gore trick.

He will shortly disappear into the mists of history.

[rocktivity]

6. It's not Richardson's fault that the Clintons had ties to Rezko AND Wright and didn't mention it.

Getting caught out so easily made reflects badly on both their judgment and character. Indeed, it may have been the straw that broke Richardson's back.





:headbang:
rocknation

[Rageneau]

4. Richardson is yet another one who will come crawling back to the Clintons one day...

...begging for forgiveness and asking for a crust of bread.

And knowing the Clintons, they'll probably forgive him, feed him, clothe him, and give him a job to help him get back on his feet.

Because, despite the diabolically inspired invective consistently aimed at the Clintons, despite all the lies told about them and all the slanders made up out of whole cloth, the truth is that nobody on this board can name a single specific incident wherein either Clinton acted toward anyone -- friend or enemy -- in anything other than a forgiving, Christian way.

Oh, yes -- they get ACCUSED of all sorts of things. But I'm talking about TRUTH. I'm talking about incidents people can PROVE.

And there aren't any.

Are there?

[Demeter]

5. I Sure Hope the Clintons Don't Sit On Their Hands Waiting For Repentance

It didn't happen last time, and it won't happen this time, either. Too many people have been pissed, off, blown off, and otherwise dissed by the Clintons these 20+ years. The damage isn't confined to Arkansas any more.