Friday, 03.21.08
Hex President
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Richardsonmania
17 May 2007
Matthew Yglesias praised Bill Richardson's novel proposals for energy policy.
Bill Richardson's blueprint for Iowa
27 November 2007
Few politicians are as accomplished as Richardson; even fewer are as accomplished while projecting his air of bumbling and incompetence. By many accounts this impression is just a lack of charisma, and he has "substance" to make up for it. But the endorsement, embraced publicly by Obama, should provoke private shudders: This man is hexed.
His campaign won an initial gust of favorable wind from his ethnicity, but it quickly sailed to nowhere, with even Latinos voting for him in unimpressive numbers. (Do Latinos care about electing a Hispanophone? Sen. Christopher Dodd speaks better Spanish than Richardson, and his campaign foundered among all ethnicities, despite getting the crucial David Mamet endorsement.) And his business entanglements with Kissinger McLarty and various energy companies made him -- a former Energy secretary -- look crooked, even though he probably wasn't. On the campaign trail he committed weird flubs, and even if they were only superficial, they didn't look especially presidential. Richardson's may well bring superdelegates to the Obama cause; for that, Obama will be grateful. In exchange for the gratitude, can he get Richardson to agree not to campaign?
The third wayThough not willing to gamble on his success, David Brooks judged Richardson the most unvarnished, proven, and authentically human of the Democratic candidates. |
Deadly dark horseJim Fry glowingly profiled the man of whom Larry Sabato said, "Republicans will tell you privately that if the Democrats nominate Bill Richardson the election is over." |
VP or bustEd Morrissey compares Richardson's gamble to Gore pulling support from Lieberman in 2004 and wonders if the VP spot is secured. |
Triple whammyJoseph Schuman notes the endorsement's major benefits: more superdelegates, more Hispanic voters, and a prominent ally with unimpeachable experience. |
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This article is c-r-a-z-y. If Hillary would have gotten this endorsement, it would have been considered a strengthening of her connection to the Latino vote, another Superdelegate in her pocket, and a victory in her march toward the nomination. But because Obama got the endorsement, it is played as a hex. Unbelievable.
I listened to the endorsement of Bill Richardson who courageously is standing with him while he is down and to Barack's speech afterwards and Obama, to me, must be not just an ordinary human being but indeed an Advanced Soul, come to lead America out of this mess, if we no if They, let him, but we too have a say in this Democracy, this Barack well knows. Through this trial-by-fire, recently experienced by him, he has been Humble, Noncombative, Noncritical and committed to doing his work on this earth to make it a more better and perfect union. He has kept his promise not to tear one another down but to build us up. He has courage in the face of fire, not a courage of anger but a courage of goodwill and a spirit of generosity born out of harmlessness in spite of the difficulties. That is why he can say with honesty that he can work with the other side because where others see hate, he sees love and the good within an individual... that takes a special person to see the good when bad is all around that person and may be to bring that good out within that person.. to transform them, while all the time transforming theirself and the world around them.
So, the Clinton Campaign must love the idea of the "hex" and is downplaying Richardson's endorsement value saying that the time for Richardson's usefullness as an endorsement has passed. So, if that was the case, why was the HRC campaign trying even last week to get his endorsement? Spin... spin... spin... Smacks of HRC saying when she was down in popular vote that it's all about delegates... then all about big states... Spin...
Every time I read a gringo like Graeme Wood refer to Hispanics as Latinos, I recall Mitt Romney, surrounded by young African Americans, chanting, "Who let the dogs out."
Looks as though even politicians are fooled by Barack Hussein Obama's empty, racists speeches.Wonder how Richardson will feel when BHO says "your typical hispanic". Some people will sell their souls for a vice-president position. I cannot understand why people so uphold Barack Hussein Obama. He has no experience and when he has to address anything that comes out on him that is not good, he just simply blames everyone else. Then all his blind followers go - excellent speech. Don't people think for themselves anymore? A man who won't wear a lapel flag pin but when he is caught with his hand in the till he will display a bunch of flags behind him while stating it is everyone elses' fault even his white grandmothers. Now who in their right mind would want a weazel like that for a president. I guess it is just my fault. I am one of those "your typical person who thinks for themselves".
In the above picture of Barack Hussein Obama and Gov. Richardson - what is the lump in Barack Hussein Obama's cheek? Is it is tongue - you know "tongue in cheek" comments.
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Can't comment on the hex, but Richardson has a lifetime of experience over Hillary . . .
Posted by denis | March 21, 2008 2:56 PM