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this is another joke, if he didn't do anything wrong, why has he backed down from this offer? really, when he dumbed clinton, that was not good for his character. although, carville was totally out of line what he said.
now richardson finally shaved off his beard (looked like a Mexican bandit) now he needs to get a haircut (go to Edwards barber for $400, it looks like he cuts his own hair) and desperately needs to go on weight watchers.
Look you cannot be an honest person that follows the law and pays taxes and have enough money to run for these government jobs.
No honest man can come up with that much money.
That is why we are where we are today!
Read Greg Palast: "Bill Richardson - Kissinger-American"
He writes:
"....For years I've been investigating the second-most corrupt state in the USA (after Alaska). I like to check in on the enchanted state with my bud Santiago Juárez....."
http://www.gregpalast.com/
Let me understand this correctly:
You fault him for helping a friend in trouble (Clinton) by moving Lewenski somewhere else away from the president... maybe to mitigate the damage to this country (and of course his friend).
Then you fault him for "stabbing the Clintons in the back. After he refused to endorse Hillary for some time.... perhaps a kind way of telling a friend that they are not right for the job. Then endorsing Obama, only after the Clinton attacks got so bad that he knew it had to stop. (some people Just can't take a hint).
What I see here is that someone realized that they couldn't bring Obama down.... so now we are firing up the machine against the next best thing, a guy who made the hard decision to try to let a friend down easy.
Aren't we all tired of people expecting favors in Washington, even when it does not serve this country.
I hope that Richardson is cleared... regardless of what happens in court, this article was an attack piece from people who expected power.
I don't understand why these people are making noises about Richardson endorsing Obama instead of Clinton. Not that it's a bad thing. I mean if he goes over the fence and had endorsed Mccain then maybe we can call him judas. Because by calling him judas for endorsing obama it's like saying "obama shouldn't have become a president, it's hilary's place". I hope Richardson's get cleared. It's not that he has never done anything good for the country. He probably has done more than the person who wrote this article.
wow... what about darfur? and north korea? if he was so dirty why did the clintons scream bloody murder when he went to obama? mr dunn you are enjoying this too much. doesnt make much sense., he was rotten but the clintons wanted him,...you dont make sense except to pile on. if your a historian we all are rightly screwed.
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