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Gatsby
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 Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject: Interesting article on Bill Richardson |
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The article focuses on the issue of Gov. Bill Richardson's endorsement. But I think the real issue is the possibility of Richardson as a vice-presidential candidate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/us/politics/23richardson.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1203740146-ZMHa%20zrg/koKrQowPwenlg&pagewanted=all
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No Longer in Race, Richardson Is a Man Pursued
By MARK LEIBOVICH
SANTA FE, N.M. � Lots of people are calling Gov. Bill Richardson these days, �just to check in.�
Barack Obama calls every three days or so. He called on Friday of last week, but Mr. Richardson was tied up with the Legislature, so he tried again on Monday and left a message on voice mail (�following up from Friday�) before finally connecting with his defeated presidential rival late Tuesday, and then again two days later.
Mr. Richardson took a half-hour call from Bill Clinton on Tuesday and received about 10 others � a typical day � from people calling �on behalf of Hillary�: former cabinet secretaries, mutual friends, elected officials. �Heavyweight types,� Mr. Richardson calls them.
�Barack is very precise,� the governor observed, sitting in his office at the New Mexico Capitol. The Obama campaign rarely pesters him with surrogates. Mr. Obama�s approach is like �a surgical bomb,� he said, while �the Clintons are more like a carpet bomb.� .... |
My money is on Richardson for vice president. Obama needs someone with administrative experience to balance the ticket.
If he picked John Edwards, I can just hear the Republicans now talking about two candidates with only one term in the Senate. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, he admits thinking about being someone�s running mate, or maybe secretary of state.
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He is �genuinely torn� about any endorsement, he said, adding that he might offer one next week or perhaps not at all.
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He's playing hardball with this interview. He wants an offer and neither camp is offering anything. Yet. I really wonder if either Clinton or Obama would choose him because of the Hispanic background. Both might think one 'change' on the ticket is enough and want a whitebread male for a running partner.
I think he's one of the most qualified people in the country for the White House and was disappointed when he didn't do better at the polls. |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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| I think Richardson is a great guy, has some good diplomatic and executive experience. He'd make a good runningmate for Clinton. If (and I say if) Obama wins the nomination, I think he'll need someone with a military background. So I agree, Richardson wouldn't necessarly make the best choice for Obama. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, he admits thinking about being someone�s running mate, or maybe secretary of state.
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He is �genuinely torn� about any endorsement, he said, adding that he might offer one next week or perhaps not at all.
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He's playing hardball with this interview. He wants an offer and neither camp is offering anything. Yet. I really wonder if either Clinton or Obama would choose him because of the Hispanic background. Both might think one 'change' on the ticket is enough and want a whitebread male for a running partner.
I think he's one of the most qualified people in the country for the White House and was disappointed when he didn't do better at the polls. |
Yeah, I think you're right.
Obama will probably go for a woman on the ticket. |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:14 am Post subject: |
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Bill Richardson for Sec of State!!!!!!!!
I love the guy and dont want him to be VP because that would be a waste of his incredible talent |
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skibum80
Joined: 19 Jan 2008
Location: Austin
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| Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:27 am Post subject: Bill Richardson rocks |
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| Growing in Texas and bordering New Mexico, I have seen Bill working at the local level as well as the international level. Unfortunately, I dont think many Americans knew the extent of his experience. Of course we Americans tend to be to caught up. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:12 am Post subject: |
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| He was by far the most qualified guy out there. But where's the vague soaring oratory? Can't be president without vague soaring oratory, apparently. |
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mithridates
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Turns out Obama's speeches aren't as airy as some have claimed:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obama-speeches-analyzed-feb24,0,6659793.story
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For a speaker who is best known for his lofty and airy rhetoric, it's an ironic reality that Obama's public appearances very often turn into drawn-out dissertations.
In fact, read side-by-side with the other candidates' current stump speeches, the Obama script makes at least as many references to policy proposals as do theirs.
...For his part, Obama has been criticized repeatedly as a speaker with more style than substance. Likely Republican nominee John McCain recently said that "to encourage a country with only rhetoric rather than sound and proven ideas ... is not a promise of hope. It is a platitude."
He also said that Obama's speeches lack specifics.
But lately, at least, Obama's stump speech has been heavy with them.
In San Antonio, where Obama delivered a typical version of his current stump speech, his address veered at one point into a two-minute description of his health-care plan. He mentioned the age cut-off for children on their parents' plans, the estimated cost reduction of premiums for those with private health insurance and a time frame for implementation.
He outlined the high points of his energy plan with numbers and industry jargon, calling for strict caps on greenhouse emissions, increases in car fuel-efficiency standards to 40 miles per gallon and creation of green-collar jobs, right down to those working on "cellulosic ethanol."
He ticked off the dollar figures he says working families and senior citizens could save with his economic plan, and promised to raise the minimum wage yearly to keep pace with inflation. |
I thought they sounded a bit airy myself but having gotten used to Ron Paul's speeches (each one is pretty much a small lecture in itself) everything sounds pretty airy in comparison. |
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