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Remember Bill Richardson? You may hear from him again next week.
Interesting article out from the NY Times today on the wooing of Bill Richardson by the Obama and Hillary campaigns. With all the talk and speculation about Edwards and the secret meetings in Chapel Hill, I almost forgot about him.
I find this type of behind the scenes report totally facinating. Here's how Richardson describes the different approaches by the campaigns as they reach out to him:
“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.”
Depending on who you're supporting in the primary, you could probably read the article and feel like your candidate is going to get his support. I read about a couple of superdelegates who clearly are having the same dilemma as Richardson. They each said something like "my head is with Hillary, my heart is with Obama."
Here's Richardson expressing the conflict:
“I feel a great deal of personal loyalty to the Clintons,” Mr. Richardson said several times in the interview, his face betraying the agony of indecision as much as fondness. He went on to describe Mr. Obama as “remarkable,” “someone I like very much” and a leader “who is creating something that’s really good in this country.”
I'd be shocked if Richardson (or Edwards) endorsed Hillary now when her campaign seems to be floundering and all signs point to an Obama victory.
Whoever wins the nomination (and the White House), I'd be happy to see a new America under Secretary of State Richardson and Attorney General Edwards in the new administration.
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