For the Love of God, Barack, Don't Make Richardson the Secretary of State

Much as my testicles shrivel when I hear Hillary scolding the person who's most recently pissed her off, and for all the times my toes are sure to curl when I hear John Kerry pontificate on world affairs, I would take one right after the other rather than suffering through a month of having Bill Richardson represent us abroad as Secretary of State.

Now, even Richardson would be better than the over hyped, abysmal failure named Condie Rice, but there are so many more ways that Barry can repay the New Mexico governor for his act of betrayal on Good Friday, 2008 than making us suffer through his brainless observations on the world stage.

And While I'm on the Topic of Democrats

I will beg, one more time, for everyone to please just ignore Bill Richardson.

The guy is such a tool and when I see him in print or on television, it makes my toes curl, wondering why the press doesn't just leave him alone.

Last night, he was on with Matthews jabbering away about how he's not sure if he is interested in the Secretary of State position, since he just got through the rigors of the veep vetting process.

What's that, you didn't know that he was being vetted and a strong contender?

Well, neither did anyone else.

But he went out of his way to assure the New York Times that he was. See, when he didn't see his name in the press, he asked Barry about it and was assured that he was being considered. This call, Bill again makes a point of telling us, took place when Obama dialed Richardson directly...as he always does.

We get it, Bill, you wear big boy pants, now. We'll just forget the possibility that they told you you were being vetted to make you feel better and more inclined to be a good little soldier come fall when they'll need your help campaigning en el oeste.

Hillary the Christ Figure

“Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic.”

Noted Clintonista, James Carville, on the Richardson endorsement

The Wetback Vote

This morning brings more behavior typical of the Clintonistas in this Presidential campaign.

After yesterday's Bill Richardson endorsement of Obama, Mark Penn is dismissing it, saying that Richardson's window of influence had passed.

Reading between the lines, he's saying that Richardson had a temporary ability to influence the race when Hispanics and western folks were voting.

Make no mistake about it; I'm no great fan of Bill Richardson.

But the Clintons were still courting his superdelegate vote and support as recently as 8 days ago and Bubba himself trekked out to New Mexico to watch the Superbowl with Richardson this winter.

Someone is, indeed, showing their Primary Colors.

Guess Where That Thumb Has Been

A Richardson honcho had to resign in shame (one has to wonder whether working for Richardson is, in fact, less shameful than being forced to resign!) today when it became public that he had some outstanding warrants and had managed a whorehouse.

Be on the lookout for him to be holding the position of first spouse's chief of staff if the 2008 election goes a certain way. He seems very qualified.

Bill Richardson at the Gay Debate

I've pulled together two interesting clips from the Gay Debate the other night in Los Angeles.

My first observation is kudos to the Logo Network.  This is the GLBT network and their web coverage of this debate is very friendly to bloggers and others who want to link up video clips as I will below.  They put the so-called major networks to shame.

Here's the clip of Billy Boy saying that sexual orientation is a choice behavior.  He follows it up with really, in my opinon, the biggest flub...he just stumbles around like a kid whose fingers smell like gunpowder, trying to explain how he don't know nuthin' about the toilets being blown up by cherry bombs.

As has been noted here before, when cornered, he just starts spewing out a series of catch phrases and promises that clearly reflect a lack of comfort with pressure to express core principles and plans to achieve legislation to satisfy them.

I'm sure he's a nice enough guy with good enough intentions, but there is a Gee-Dub air about him.

This next clip is the former UN Embassador failing to show any cojones in explaning a joke he took part in on the Imus show a few years ago.  While there is a Spanish Inquisition air about their questioning of this radio prank, I find his lack of backbone to be the most offensive part of it.

If you really are contrite about having made a joke, then give a sincere explanation and apology.

But if you think it was a joke and that folks should just lighten up then friggin' say so, Bill!

Bill Richardson Blows it at the Gay Debate

I will have to read more on this and try to find a podcast or re-run of it when I get home (it was on at 9PM EDT and would run past my bedtime), but apparently Bill Richardson stuck his foot in his mouth last night at the so-called Gay Presidential debate in LA.

When asked the question that anyone with half a brain should have been prepared for, he declared that sexual orientation is a choice behavior rather than something that may be genetically determined.

Uh oh, Bill...

Being the dingbat pol he is, of course, his campaign tried to backpeddle on this via a statement afterwards, but as former Senator, Macaca Allen knows, it's really really hard to dispute it when the tape is so clear.

>> Interestingly, Allen's Macaca moment was almost exactly a year ago today (August 11, 2006)

I've Seen Less-Obvious Airbrushing in Playboy!

At work today, I actually just needed to grab a New Mexico ZIP code for something. The first thing that came to mind was the address used for the Richardson for President campaign.

Was I surprised to see how airbrushed the chubby little former baseball star was when I went to his site!

Check out this screenshot from his frontpage. For context, I have included screengrabs from some of the other candidates, none of whom so dramatically airbrush closeups of themselves!