Posted on 04/17/2009 10:23:49 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
If all had gone according to plan, Bill Richardson would be at center stage in Washington, wheeling, dealing and glad-handing around the globe -- as president, or at least as secretary of state.
But Richardson remains the Democratic governor of New Mexico, barreling across the vast high desert here, the wind howling and the sand flying as he races to build a legacy and rebuild his career.
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Richardson is said to have been in contact with North Korean leaders after they launched a long-range missile earlier this month, but that is a subject he declined to discuss.
"With these countries that are different and difficult, you establish a personal relationship," he said. "I have that kind of relationship with the North Koreans, with the Sudanese, with the Cubans, with the Iranians."
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Last week, the governor was preoccupied with trying to free Roxana Saberi, an American journalist who was arrested in January in Iran and accused of spying for the United States. Richardson negotiated with Mohammad Khazaee, the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, to allow Saberi's parents to travel to Iran to see their daughter. But he remains frustrated that the talks have stretched for weeks with no resolution.
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Wouldn't that be considered treason by some?
Only if he were a Republican.
LOL! Shanked by Bill and Hillary. He jumped ship on Hillary for O. After the election his dirty laundry starts coming out. A Bill & Hillary operation.
When is Bill going to leak O’s Kenyan BC?
Honestly, we have reached a point over here that we just say “Ok Bill” and ignore him like the village idiot he is. We like it when he goes globetrotting because it keeps him from f’n stuff up here in New Mexico.
Considering the tax cheats and anti-Constitutionalists and other miscreants in the current cabinet, I wonder just how bad his behavior must have been in order to not be considered for a cabinet post in this administration.
For a taste of what NM has had to endure with King Bill,
Congratulations, your relationships have supported four of the most repressive regimes of our time. Why don't you offer them a little part of Czechoslovakia. It worked for Neville Chamberlain.
His main problem is Nobody cares!! He is not and never has been serious national material. Nothing but another left wing nobody.
The problem is that he always returns. Can’t y’all bribe some third world hellhole to keep him?
Here:
... a federal grand jury [is] investigating whether one of his campaign donors won state contracts because of pressure from the governor's office. The probe is moving along aggressively, sources close to the investigation said, and it is unclear whether Richardson [or top aides] could be indicted ...
And if all had gone according to JUSTICE, he would be wearing an orange jumpsuit, leg irons and picking up trash along the sides of I-25 on the occasional day they let him out of his cell for good behavior.
I certainly hope he'll be at peace in federal prison. I'd like to see him negotiate his way out of prison. LOL
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