Video: Bill Richardson throws Hillary under the bus
posted at 9:15 pm on March 2, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Count up the delegates at the close of business on Tuesday night and whoever’s got the bigger pile is your nominee, says Bill Clinton’s ambassador to the UN turned Secretary of Energy, knowing full well that even if Her Majesty steals Texas and Ohio from Obama the margin won’t be enough to close the gap. Thus did a man once touted as Hillary’s VP, who spent Super Bowl Sunday glued to the tube with Billy Jeff himself, render a de facto endorsement while pretending not to endorse anyone at all. Exit question: If Obama beats her in both states and she refuses to concede by the next day, does Richardson make his endorsement official?
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Is that guacamole I see in his beard?
Mark1971 on March 2, 2008 at 9:18 PM
M
He’s pulling an Al Gore.
Tzetzes on March 2, 2008 at 9:21 PM
Kiss-kiss-Obama!
Smoooochie-smoooch on the butt!
What a slimeweasel.
profitsbeard on March 2, 2008 at 9:21 PM
I’m sorry, but Richardson just plain makes me sick. I couldn’t care less what he thinks. He has got to be in the top 10 of worst governors.
Vigilante on March 2, 2008 at 9:22 PM
Huh? Oh, sorry; Couldn’t pay attention, as I was distracted by whatever hideous thing that was on Gov. Richardson’s face.
amerpundit on March 2, 2008 at 9:23 PM
Obama/Richardson?
Stan and Bran
Entelechy on March 2, 2008 at 9:23 PM
He kind of looks like the late Luciano Pavorotti in this picture.
dmann on March 2, 2008 at 9:23 PM
PRICELESS!!!!
jimbo2008 on March 2, 2008 at 9:23 PM
He just dropped out of the race to get face-humped by a chinchilla. It wouldn’t have gone well in the general, ya know?
HerrMorgenholz on March 2, 2008 at 9:24 PM
That’s his standard modus operandi. He should be the bootlicker-in-chief.
(By the way, I actually like the beard and think it suits him. Just I’d leave it a bit higher on the sides. I think the guy’s a putz, but he does look better here.
Tzetzes on March 2, 2008 at 9:28 PM
What’s the deal with the beard, Guillermo?
JammieWearingFool on March 2, 2008 at 9:28 PM
Fixed!
Can anyone say…. suck up?
Kini on March 2, 2008 at 9:29 PM
What is wrong with a man sporting a beard? I myself have a beard because I refuse to capitulate to the fascist tools of the matriarchy and shave.
Blarg the Destroyer on March 2, 2008 at 9:31 PM
Like it matters… although elgeneralisimo will say that the chin ferret works for him…
elgeneralisimo on March 2, 2008 at 9:33 PM
Bill Richardson doesn’t sound like a latino name.
JiangxiDad on March 2, 2008 at 9:35 PM
If Hillary and/or Obama are unwilling to fight for the disenfranchised voters of Florida and Michigan who, through no fault of their own had their rights usurped, how can anyone expect them to stand up for freedom and human rights anywhere?
Fight on Hillary! Fight for the rights of the people of Florida and Michigan! Fight until there inalienable rights are restored!
TheBigOldDog on March 2, 2008 at 9:35 PM
When did Dom Deluise get into the political arena. Shouldn’t he be working on Cannonball Run XII?
THE CHOSEN ONE on March 2, 2008 at 9:35 PM
Hear hear! I have a beard too!
Because…
…my fiancée lets me.
Tzetzes on March 2, 2008 at 9:38 PM
Crap, he’s trying to look like Ace. Video from CPAC is here:
http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/148ce1cf-4a13-48b3-98bd-5e13dba77ed0
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on March 2, 2008 at 9:38 PM
Is that a Republic of Mexico’s pin he is wearing?
Seven Percent Solution on March 2, 2008 at 9:39 PM
Lenin had a beard, Castro has a beard, Rasputin had a beard,
Gabby Hayes had whiskers!
Kini on March 2, 2008 at 9:39 PM
Whichever way the wind blows, Richardson shall go. He’s as phony as his beard looks.
Travis1 on March 2, 2008 at 9:41 PM
Is that his strike beard?
someguy on March 2, 2008 at 9:48 PM
Worst beard ever? Arafat.
Tzetzes on March 2, 2008 at 9:52 PM
Maybe he’ll be the new global cooling activist.
THE CHOSEN ONE on March 2, 2008 at 9:54 PM
Scruff is what that is.
Kini on March 2, 2008 at 9:59 PM
Meh……. anything to stay in politics, right?
Seven Percent Solution on March 2, 2008 at 9:59 PM
This is
a littlereally off topic, but is anyone else getting tired of Hannity talking about the weather underground and trying to convince us its ok to use Baracks middle name? My rule on the middle name is don’t use it until some who introduces him at an event uses it.knat on March 2, 2008 at 10:00 PM
Horatio Sanz could really use a shave.
Kid from Brooklyn on March 2, 2008 at 10:04 PM
The beard at least shows his de facto support of Obama isn’t a ploy to get named as the VP on Barak’s ticket. Like the theory last year that you knew Gore wasn’t running for president in 2008 because he wasn’t dieting, you know Richardson isn’t angling for the VP nod if he’s going around with a beard like that (let alone that the entire DNC would get the vapors if they had a ticket of Obama-Richardson with Bill looking like that out on the campaign trail).
jon1979 on March 2, 2008 at 10:05 PM
You’re right, in fact I don’t use his name anymore, just to make sure I don’t offend anyone, I just use his initials, B.O., works for me………
Seven Percent Solution on March 2, 2008 at 10:06 PM
I’d just like to take this opportunity to compliment Allah on the use of the exit question(s). Good stuff.
ChenZhen on March 2, 2008 at 10:10 PM
Rats deserting a sinking ship?
TooTall on March 2, 2008 at 10:11 PM
Oh that just stinks!
Kini on March 2, 2008 at 10:11 PM
Obama/Richards
The Dynamic dou!
canopfor on March 2, 2008 at 10:12 PM
Richardson better scratch hillary’s back,
or Hillary might scratch his eyes out!
canopfor on March 2, 2008 at 10:14 PM
Clinton: Race ‘will go on a lot — a while — longer’
ninjapirate on March 2, 2008 at 10:14 PM
knat –
Being told not to use Obama’s middle name by the PC police on the left is annoying, but using it is really besides the point, as far as making a difference in November.
What got Obama really mad last year wasn’t the use of his middle name, but when Maureen Dowd mentioned his big ears in one of her New York Times newspaper columns, and he went after her face-to-face (which led to Dowd’s famour “We’re trying to toughen you up” line). Going by that, Bill Cunningham should have been calling him Barak “Big Ears” Obama at the McCain rally warm-up last week, if he really wanted to get a rise out of the candidate and his supporters. But to run around doing that for the next eight months would be silly, and — given Obama’s National Journal liberal rating and some of his foreign policy comments — if the conservative talkers like Hannity have to resort to using his middle name to fire up voters instead of attacking on his statements and voting record, they really need to get out of political talk and find another line of work.
jon1979 on March 2, 2008 at 10:15 PM
Other than possibly Gravel, Richardson always struck me as the goofiest goofball of all the Democrat goofballs this year. It would be a tremendous gift to the Rs if someone picked him as VP.
I say “someone” because I still think it’s at least conceivable that the Obama bubble will burst, if it hasn’t in fact already burst, and that we might very well end up with a situation where he has the most delegates and votes, but Hillary has momentum, wins in most big states including likely Fall battlegrounds, and, perhaps most important, a perceived electability advantage: In all likelihood it’s just a momentary phenomenon, maybe some meaningless margin of error noise, related to Obama having had two consecutive bad weeks, but the Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll of likely voters now has McCain 5 points over BO, and only 3 over HRC. That’s the first time I can remember seeing McCain ahead of BO by that much in a major poll, and the first time in a very long time that I can remember Hillary doing better than Barack.
If this poll is confirmed by other polls and becomes a trend, then the Democratic race (and a lot else) could be turned upside down.
CK MacLeod on March 2, 2008 at 10:16 PM
jon1979 on March 2, 2008 at 10:15 PM
I agree
I want to hear about Obamas association with the lobbying industry
Or how NAFTA really benefits America
Or how Obamas judgment comes into play on his decision to oppose the surge
Or how the tax cuts that Obama opposes effect every American not just the rich.
knat on March 2, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Is this the new trend of democrat losers, grow a beard, pack on the pounds?
ThePrez on March 2, 2008 at 10:28 PM
If anyone’s going to throw you under the bus, wouldn’t you want it to be that guy, with that face?
Actually & seriously: I don’t care who has however many delegates; I won’t count Hillary out until I walk into the voting both in November and don’t see her name anywhere on the ballot.
Lee on March 2, 2008 at 10:29 PM
Working that Blatino vote!
SouthernGent on March 2, 2008 at 10:29 PM
Maybe richardson is growing the “I’m a loser, so don’t pick me as your veep” beard?
BryanS on March 2, 2008 at 10:29 PM
You beat me to it. I noticed the Al Gore Memorial Beard (TM) as well. Supplemental exit question: will Hillary grow a beard when she loses, in the grand tradition of failed former Democratic presidential candidates?
Big S on March 2, 2008 at 10:30 PM
Mark my words…Obama and Hillary will be THE ticket…
JetBoy on March 2, 2008 at 10:31 PM
Not sure if your have been in a lead mine or were just being sarcastic, But Richardson is half- Mexican. His mother is still a citizen of Mexico who came north only long enough to have Bill.
His father was the second or third generation of expatriate Richardson men who worked, lived and loved outside of the USA. Bill spent his ‘formative years’ living in Mexico, only coming to the USA to attend prep school and college in Massachusetts. After which, he packed his carpetbag to move to NEW Mexico to run for political office.
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As far as the beard… Yeah, part Gore: “I’m a political loser licking my wounds and not shaving in protest.” … part Pancho Villa: “I’m a big bad Bandito” statement.
He started growing it for his and Bill Clinton’s get together for their Super Bowl and burritos weekend.
LegendHasIt on March 2, 2008 at 10:35 PM
I think the Obama’s cheerful collaboration with members of a marxist-lenninist domestic terrorist group who have specificly refused to repudiate their campaign for the violent overthrow of our republic is very relevant, and though I’m no Hannity fan, I’m glad he’s pressing the issue.
I think the “hussein” thing is low, silly and makes the person look bad. People who think the “hussein” thing is good, hard campaigning are obviosly invulnerable to appeals that it’s un-nessesarily mean and a little bit racist, but I wish they’d recognize that it has the opposite of the intended effect on people.
Name-calling is fine in general though, and i like Seven Percent’s suggestion of “B.O.”
Hee Haw Damien on March 2, 2008 at 10:35 PM
The powers that be are in panic mode over a brokered convention. They haven’t figured out that we, and the entire left wing of the nation, know all about that dirty little secret called superdelegates. I actually hope she does stay in!
Pam on March 2, 2008 at 10:43 PM
I marked them…with a pencil. ;-)
SouthernGent on March 2, 2008 at 10:48 PM
I agree with you. The problem with “Hussein” is not that it is “bigoted”(though that is how it is playing in the press), the problem is that it is a diversion and a waste of time.
ninjapirate on March 2, 2008 at 10:50 PM
The fat guy grew a beard!
Chakra Hammer on March 2, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Whats up with the beard?
Is the global cooling getting to him, and he’s afraid of catching a cold?
Chakra Hammer on March 2, 2008 at 11:01 PM
I’m sorry, but Bill Richardson was a huge part of the corrupt Clinton administration, and he’s an idiot. ‘Let’s all smoke some pot and party.’
bluestater on March 2, 2008 at 11:06 PM
heh…I’ll accept a pencil…but think about it, No matter who wins, to put Obama and Hillary on the same ticket will automatically galvinaize the Dems…
Then, it’s up to the ultra-cons with McCain-derangement to back our GOP nominee.
JetBoy on March 2, 2008 at 11:25 PM
Mark my words…Obama and Hillary will be THE ticket…
JetBoy on March 2, 2008 at 10:31 PM
No dice. If and when he becomes the nominee, the Clinton’s will start working behind the scenes to derail his chances. Just ask John Kerry about how much “help” the Clintons gave him in 04′. Why be no.2 when in their mind they can be no.1 in 2012?
THE CHOSEN ONE on March 2, 2008 at 11:42 PM
+1
fourstringfuror on March 3, 2008 at 12:38 AM
Oy…. living 500 yards from New Mexico is just too close for me.
Look at that POS they elected governor. He’s trying to look like Francisco Madera with that goatee on his fat little half-anglo face.
Pandejo..
TexasJew on March 3, 2008 at 12:40 AM
Oops -I meant to type Madero. It didn’t matter to him, Porfirio Diaz killed him anyway.
And, worst of all, I’m only 400 yards from New Mexico - I double-checked.
TexasJew on March 3, 2008 at 12:49 AM
Barack Hussein Obama is his name. And using it is important. Not because Barack Hussein Obama is a closet Muslim. He’s not. By all accounts he doesn’t really believe in much of anything, spiritually (if you read his Autobiography “Dreams from My Father: A Story of RACE and INHERITANCE.”) He only joined Trinity (after a lifetime of no religion) because his local power base was suspicious and asked him where he “churched.”
No what Barack Hussein Obama tells people is that he is the world’s #1 multiculturalist and PC freak. Which is why his full name should be used.
It’s valid information. If you want PC multiculturalism up the yazoo and dislike America intensely, romanticize failed third world cultures, then Barack Hussein Obama is your man. He’ll give you exactly what you want.
If don’t want that, then Barack Hussein Obama is not your man. You’d better choose someone else.
whiskey_199 on March 3, 2008 at 3:41 AM
BUT NOOOOooooooooooo
benrand on March 3, 2008 at 6:14 AM
I’ve worn a beard for (thinkety-think…) 31 years with never one shaving it off. It is as much a part of me as my fingers. There is nothing at all wrong with a groomed beard, long or short.
And lest any of you think we fur-faces are being lazy: keeping a beard neat, brushed, trimmed and shaped takes time and care.
- the friendly grizzly
friendlygrizzly on March 3, 2008 at 6:41 AM
Hey Bill, nice beard.
It doesn’t surprise me that some of the top Democrats are now abandoning the Good Ship HRC. I think comes Tuesday, the ship is going to hit a couple of icebergs named Texas and Ohio and slowly sink into the west.
pilamaye on March 3, 2008 at 7:14 AM
The Demoncrates have never been more divided that ever and between the two key issues they hold dear to their cause, sex and race.
Hitlery is not feminine enough to be considered a real women and according to many in their party Obama is not black enough to qualify.
Where’s Bill when you need him to put a gaff or two into Steinem, and make a snide remark on Richy Rich’s beard.
MSGTAS on March 3, 2008 at 8:29 AM
Are we watching the same video? How is Richardson throwing Hillary under the bus here? Richardson didn’t say anything other than that he’s sick and tired of hearing them both bicker for this long. I took it to mean that he’s sick of both of them, as most of America is.
The most interesting thing in the video was Richardson saying that “Republicans are united (behind McCain).” Of course, that’s a crock of you know what. McCain is too much of a lefty for any real conservative to get behind.
I wanted FDT, but that appears to be an impossibility at this stage.
Kind Regards,
Jeff
Illyahkuryahkin on March 3, 2008 at 8:54 AM
Since Bill is 60, that Just for Men seems to be working pretty well for him. Maybe he intends on being a Young Lion (looking) power broker during the process.
eeyore on March 3, 2008 at 9:06 AM