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Richardson to get Commerce post
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Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor
December 2, 2008 02:32 PM
Several news organizations are reporting that Bill Richardson will be named commerce secretary at a press conference on Wednesday by President-elect Barack Obama.
Richardson would be another former political rival and former Clintonite invited into the Obama cabinet.
Now the governor of New Mexico, Richardson served as energy secretary and ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton administration, besides his freelance diplomacy afterwards. When he rebuffed the Clintons -- including the former president, who watched the Super Bowl with him -- and endorsed Obama instead, former Clinton adviser James Carville called him "Judas."
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Richardson is toast. How far away from the White House can we put this guy, and not have to worry about NM in 4 years.
Whenever James Carville "vents" he spouts an acerbic, extreme view of partisan politics that's way out-of-step with the DNC's objectives! Apply a few generous dabs of Preparation H on his bald head, & he'd probably disappear forever...
Bill Richardson is a jerk and a sleeze. Hope he gets his for the move he pulled on the Clintons. I know they are all politicians and all sleezey but he really rubbed me the wrong way when he pulled his little endorsement stunt. He's just one more politician who would sell his own children to move up that ladder, and if I hear him say one more time 'I'm Hispanic you know", I'm going to puke last time I checked Richardson was not an Hispanic name, so that makes you at most 1/2 Hispanic and who really cares anyway. We should all just be American and we'd be better off.
gov.richardson is not judas.he is a political opportunist who decided to get on the winning bandwagon when it was clear that pres-elect obamma was going to win.the pres-elect can APPOINT ANYONE HE CHOOSES TO ANY POSITION UNDER HIS AUTHORITY! DUE NOT AGREE MOVE TO NEW MEXICO THEY ARE DESPERATE FOR MALCONTENTS.
Bill Richardson has served well wherever he has been, and Commerce seems the great mix of domestic and international tasks to use his skills. He seems under-appreciated here in NM, where he has managed to lead a poor rural state forward with a modestly progressive agenda frequently in spite of a state Democratic Party that can, on its bad days, can seem so tone-deaf and corrupt, as only 70 years of a legislative majority can make a party.
As a Democrat, I am also glad that the party might consider the value of Governor Richardson to help solidify the hispanic voters' home in the Democratic Party. Barack Obama's hispanic plurality, accomplished with loads of heavy lifting by Richardson during the campaign, needs to be fostered.
Since when was the DNC anything but extremely partisan? Richardson must have believed that Obama was better than Hillary, nothing more.