[The Shrew]

Wonder where this clinton/obama ticket leaves Bill Richardson...he announced yesterday, but seems to have been ignored by the media other than in NM...couldn't happen to a "nicer" guy. Bad as obama is, I think richardson is worse, he's a clinton tool.

Where this leaves Bill Richardson is as the 2008 Vice-Presidential Candidate for the democrat party. Obama is SOL. In political spin tone, here's ten reasons:

1. Richardson is a member of the up and coming minority - Hispanics.
2. Richardson is a Clinton Insider.
3. Richardson is a Clinton Insider.
4. Richardson is a Clinton Insider.
5. Richardson is a Clinton Insider.
6. Richardson is a Clinton Insider.
7. Richardson is a Clinton Insider.
8. Richardson is a Clinton Insider.
9. Richardson is a Clinton Insider.
10. Richardson is a Western Governor which will fit in perfectly with the dem strategy to remove the Independent Western US from the GOP side of the ledger.

It's a potentially winning strategy. The Western US has all but been ignored by both parties since 1860. The dems know that they haven't played well in the south since peanut boy became president. They can't break the Evangelical Christian/Gun owning South. But, they can play well in the California dominated, sparsely populated, environmentally concerned, and increasingly secular humanist Western US.

Regards,

TS

[Bahbah]

Where this leaves Bill Richardson is as the 2008 Vice-Presidential Candidate for the democrat party.

I am inclined to agree. The Clintons are going to want someone they know they can control and who has no trouble with their brand of dishonesty and criminality. Richardson fills the bill.

[greyfoxx39]

I'm afraid you are correct.