With New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson having formally announced his presidential candidacy Monday, perhaps his jam-packed resume will draw more notice — congressman, United Nations ambassador and energy secretary, as well as two-term governor. MSNBC’s First Read blog asked: “Has anyone realized that outside of (John) McCain, none of the Big Six actually has that much experience as they run for president in this post-Sept. 11 world?” Hillary Clinton has just begun her second Senate term. Barack Obama is still in his first. John Edwards was a one-term senator. Rudy Giuliani’s elective experience consists of two terms as a mayor. And Mitt Romney was a governor for only one term. Al Gore or Newt Gingrich, anyone?
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This is the guy I think should be the next president. Certainly by far the best qualified to start to repair the wreck that our foreign policy has become.
So far, Bill Richardson is the only candidate I like on either side. He not has a lot of experience, but common sense.
Richardson is probably the best qualified of the bunch but he doesn’t look good on TV and he doesn’t deliver a great speech. Those are 2 major things that give him little chance.
Kill the Immigrants!
That’s the only policy Republicans will accept. What the hell, so many Mezkins already work in slaughter houses, just line them up behind a doomed heiffer and grind ‘em into hot dogs! It’s the Republican way! Do it on “Bring Your Daughter to Work” Day and we can get rid of even more of the 10- or 12- or umpty-million immigrants that have the GOP in hissy-fits by their mere presence in America, fueled by the audacity of taking jobs American corporations offer them (with plenty of profits leftover to fund Republic Party politicians).
It’s a “Boarder Security” issue! Them damned Mezicans have brown skin, brown eyes, and black hair…just like the terrists! Kill ‘em all! Let God sort ‘em out! It’s the Amerkin Way!
And what’s with allowing anyone to speak Mezkin in God’s country?! Let’s outlaw Mezkin language once and for all! I don’t wanna order a “taco” anymore! Sell me a folded unlevened piece of cornbread filled with spicy meat and lettuce and cheese, by God! Don’t make me use those damned Mezkin words like “enchilada” or “frijoles!” They’re NOT damned “Free-Jollies,” they’s BEANS!
Any Immigration “Reform” law that does not guarantee my right to grind Mezkins into hotdogs is nothing but AMNISTY!
It’s the Republican way!
1) Richards is the most favored NRA candidate of either party2) He is for civil unions and at some future point gay marriage3) He supports hate crimes4) He vows to tear down any wall that is built between the U.S. and Mexico…
When did “republicon” change is party?
is = his
Kev has a point about Richardson’s speaking ability. He was on C-Span last night and his speech was smart but sort of ho hum in terms of delivery. He’s not a poet like Obama. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton tends to address people as though they’ve gathered for their first Romper Room class. Just because you’re running for president doesn’t mean that everyone else is four years old.
If the old maxim “to thine own self be true” applies to presidential candidates, then Richardson wins going away. You don’t get the impression that he relies on political consultants. Maybe he does to some extent, but that’s not what comes off when you hear the guy talk. He comes off as an independent thinker. He strikes me as a guy who will listen to advisers, argue the pros and cons, and then make his own decisions. That’s what I want in a president and I plan to vote for the man.
Maybe unlike the 2000 election, this one won’t hinge on who you’d rather go to a bbq with! We can only pray, and hope.
Richardson has been my #1 choice all along. However, as noted above, he just isn’t ‘perky’ enough!
Richardson certainly has the experience. And while I haven;t really followed him, he doesn;t seem to have the smell of changing positions with whatever direction the wind is blowing, but he is too much to the left for me. If he does get the nomination, and it will be interesting to see who the Republican party will choose. If it were to be someone like Guliani, i would have quite a quandry–polar opposiite on policy, or polar opposite on character. hmmmm
Richardson . . . okay, I could support him, but my gosh, BORRRING!
LJ
As a firefighter, you should talk to some of your colleagues out in New York.
They hate Guiliani’s guts . . .
Okay, soooooo….another boring Democrat candidate?
The only one with a little ‘oomph’ is Hitlery – but she’s a shrew.
Still, I suppose a shrew is better than a dull boy.
My husband’s uncle is a retired New York firefighter – and he thinks Guiliani hung the moon. He’s working on the man’s campaign.
He retired a couple of years before 911, but he had acquaintances that perished in the towers.
CapnAmerica-Builiani’s woes with firefighters are primarily with the unions. THe rank and file that I have spoke to do not. There is animosity with some, but not as a blanket. I understand this issues with the firefighters union, and have no problem with it. I am NOT a Guiliani supporter. I believe he will not get the nomination. He is a one note trumpet. While I understand his singlemindeness, and sympathize, one not trumpets, indeed only trumpets, do not an orchestra make
“I understand this issues with the firefighters union, and have no problem with it.”
Meaning, I have sympathy for the Unions problems with Guiliani, not the other way around. Still, the rank and file I have spoken to (not many) like him, or are indifferent.
It is so interesting watching the little strategies.
Obama and Hillary have virtually no experience running anything. One and two term senators.
Yet now we see Giuliani(NY City Mayor) and Romney (Massachusetts Guv, 2000 Olympic Chairman, CEO of Bain Capital) grouped with Obama and Hillary in experience.
Give me a break. There is no comparison in relevant experience and accomplishment.
I do hope Richardson’s star rises. It would be nice to see qualified candidates for the most important office in the world.
Are you basing that on Bush’s lack of experience and his consequent massive incompetence, outlander?
The person with the most experience in the entire country is Al Gore, long-term Senator and VP for eight years.
Al Bore lost his chance at Presidency already.
The moment in the 2000 debate when he deliberately walked over to Bush (impolite) stood next to him while Bush was answering a question (rude) and rocked up on his toes to make himself look taller than he was (rude) was a very telling moment about Al Gore (impolite rude moron.)
Long time I think you are misunderstanding the position of many conservatives on the immigration issue. IMOHO I don’t think we should reward anyone who breaks a law coming into our country. We are a country of laws and if we reward this behavior anarchy will rule I feel.
The legal immigration was set up for a reason. The days of ’send me your tired, your poor’ are over because as a nation we no longer have the need for or ability to assimilate large amounts of illegals into our economical and social service programs.
They should get in line, fill out the paper work, learn the language, work toward citizenship the right way. Coming in as a drain on our country will only build resentment. No politician will back this bill as written. Not if they expect to be re-elected.
The real measure of the character of a man is what his family has to say about him. Let’s see – Rudy Guiliani’s kids won’t even campaign for him and his ex-wife was publicly humiliated by Rudy at every turn in the tabloids.
And Republicans actually think this is the man to run our country? I don’t care how many firefighters in New York love this man, I wouldn’t cross the street to see him personally.
He’s alright, but I wouldn’t vote for him over some of the others.
If you believe what most of the commentators are predicting, then Richardson and everyone else, even Obama, are just completely wasting their time because Hillary Clinton will get the nomination. Apparently she has a comfortable lead in the polls, the ever reliable polls that TV people can’t even get right on election day. (Remember how exit polls turn out? Well, that’s another story.)
For a good, long while in 2003, Howard Dean had it won and the rest of the pretenders were told to go home, that a double digit lead like Dean’s would simply not evaporate all at once because people don’t change their minds like that and when a poll says a guy has a lead, well, that’s it, forget it, pack up your signs and your kazoos and your stupid convention hats and wait for the next Oracle at Hollywood in 2012.
After all, the Clintons have Sid Blumenthal, man, and Bob Shrum barking it up on “Hardball” (even though he hasn’t won since ‘43), and they have all sorts of machine people, man, and all the dough.
And they’re even going to get a new theme song.
Yes, it’s true that Americans still remember the theme song from ‘92 (nostalgia, baby), but that was before the scandals, Gore, the war, and all that other stuff, and you can vote to authorize force and change your mind later but not really change your mind later since it wasn’t a mistake and you don’t regret your vote altogether because hindsight is really 20/20 and if you’d known then what you know now you wouldn’t have done it and you can’t go looking for other fights.
The song sounds familiar, but maybe that’s what people want.
I do not understand this- WHY do people think Rudy was such a “hero” on 9-11?? Did he run into a burning building? Did he help rescue people? No, he didn’t. He also did not provide his fire and police departments with working radios that they could talk to each other on (which is why the cops got the order to get out of WTC 1 before it collapsed and the firefighters didn’t). What he did do was locate a nerve center for the NYC Emergency Management office in the World Trade Center after it was attacked the first time and after he was advised by experts to locate it outside Manhattan for fear it might be destroyed in a future attack. I call that sheer incompetence- not heroism.