Clinton, Obama Backers Go Off Message On Fox News Sunday

Gov. Bill Richardson appeared on Fox News Sunday to discuss his recent endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama. He also took a bit of time to address the feud that has occasionally boiled over between the Clinton and Obama camps.

Specifically, he addressed whether Bill Clinton intended to question Barack Obama's patriotism on Friday, an exchange which has led one Obama surrogate to compare the former President to Joe McCarthy:

CHRIS WALLACE: The Obama campaign sent out one of its top surrogates -- that's retired Air Force Gen. Tony McPeak along side Obama yesterday to accuse Clinton of McCarthyism for questioning Obama's patriotism. Gov. Richardson, as someone who worked for Bill Clinton, do you really think that's what he was trying to do?

BILL RICHARDSON: I don't believe President Clinton was implying that.

Pennsylvania governor and Hillary backer Ed Rendell also appeared on Fox News. His comments about Sen. Clinton's path to the nomination had to be walked back after he said it was "impossible" for her to take the lead in pledged delegates and popular votes.

WALLACE: Governor Rendell, let me follow up on this question of the race. For all the talk about Reverend wright and all the talk about Bill Richardson's endorsement, a lot of people think the really big news this week is the fact that Michigan is now following Florida in deciding not to hold a revote. Given all of that, isn't it impossible now for Clinton to beat Obama in the popular vote and the pledged delegates when all the voting is done in early June?

RENDELL: Well, sure. and again, it shows --

WALLACE: Sure, you're saying it's impossible.

RENDELL: It's very difficult, but it shows an inconsistency in the Obama campaign. First, they say the superdelegates should reflect the will of the people of their states. Well, we have Senator Kennedy and Senator Kerry saying they're going to vote for Obama even though Senator Clinton won by 13 points in Massachusetts.

Comments

[nazirmo]

Remember that it took the first Clinton to get the nation out of bad debts. He gave surplus and balanced budgets and economy was really great. Hillary would try to provide the same.
Hon. Mayor Bloomberg.
I will come straight to the point. Your support should not be based on who is ahead but the City you represent. After all there is not much of a difference between Obama and Clinton's policies. However Clinton was twice voted as a Senator by New Yorkers and she also won the New York and the NJ primaries. So keeping that in mind there is no doubt that New Yorkers would want their Mayor to support the home girl Hillary. I urge you to keep that in mind before you make any decision although to me it is simple- based on the above you should endorse Hillary. And I forgot the New York times - didn't they also endorse Hillary ?

[nazirmo]

Hon. Mayor Bloomberg.
I will come straight to the point. Your support should not be based on who is ahead but the City you represent. After all there is not much of a difference between Obama and Clinton's policies. However Clinton was twice voted as a Senator by New Yorkers and she also won the New York and the NJ primaries. So keeping that in mind there is no doubt that New Yorkers would want their Mayor to support the home girl Hillary. I urge you to keep that in mind before you make any decision although to me it is simple- based on the above you should endorse Hillary. And I forgot the New York times - didn't they also endorse Hillary ?

[nazirmo]

I agree 100% with James Carville that Richardson is a traitor. Not in a thousand lifetimes would I want a friend like him who would desert me when I can use his support. Yes he was qualified when Bill Clinton gave him posts in his cabinet but he was a loyal good friend for so many years.

[Casanavelaw]

Bill isn't running. Jamie Foxx' wife isn't funny. Brett Farve's wife will not lead the Green Bay Packers next year. What does Gov. Richardson owe his ex-boss' wife?

[yamoah]

I agree until seeing this...

http://www.hillarythemovie.com/trailer.html

[condew]

If I lied about my experience. If I acted like rules didn't apply to me. If I was generally destroying my party, I'd expect my friends to tell me I was out of line. And then, if I did not take my friend's advice, I'd expect them to take their support elsewhere. I think Richardson did a brave thing, and I think James Carville had better not send out any more beg letters on behalf of Democrats or anyone else. I'd just write "Judas" on the prepaid envelope and mail it. James Carville is a fine one to talk about Judas. Bill Richardson showed bravery I'd like to see from the rest of the Superdelegates before Clinton throws he election to McCain.

[Nofuzzydreams]

I thought Hillary won New Mexico?? See clip between John Roberts and Bill Richardson on CNN where Richarson was quoted as saying superdelegates should endorse based on how their state voted. Richardson comes across as a big hypocrit!!

But then again, I am not dreaming the same dream as the many Dreamboynuts here!!! - so I must be wrong according to the Dreamboynuts!!!

[iPolitics]

In other words, to other superdelegates: you better not support Obama or we will smear you.

Judas? Does that mean Hillary or Bill is Jesus?

[dotbed1]

Why are the Clintons allowing their talking heads to call Obama suporters such ugly names ? Richardson will make a very goo VP. The Clinton's need to wake up a smell the coffee.

[mponti]

Disloyal to the Clinton smutocracy? They got their pound of flesh long ago. Recall, Richardson came under heavy fire in 1998 when the media learned he’d offer Monica Lewinsky an assistant’s job in the U.N. public affairs office as part of a scheme to get her out of Washington. Lewinsky declined. Richardson wrote about this sordid incident in his book, “Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life” (p. 237,240). So, it's not surprising he jumped at the opportunity to severe his relationship with the Clintons once and for all.

[tbone99]

it seems like Obama supporters have gone off target as well.Is the entry in Obama's blog below what they mean by Change and YES WE CAN?

Yes you can , but maybe you should ask yourself if you should. Sad to see his supporters are using gestapo techniques to get their point across, it seems to hint at a lack of commitment to their candidates values.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/gregmcgannon/gGgMbn

Is this what we should expect if he wins the presidency?

[vsign]

I saw my neighbors appear in the Democratic caucus and elbow and intimidate people just so they could vote for their god.

No sensitivity to all the voters. No acknowledgement of all the Democratic voters at home because they were not used to having to spend 3 hours being embarrassed to vote their choice.

And the left calls this grass roots organizing.

I don't think so. Now if they had helped people vote their choice it might be grass roots.

[chlllfactor]

I also attended the Democratic caucuses in my state. The Hillary people were also 'elbowing and intimidating' others for the sake of their candidate - that is the nature of a caucus. Caucuses are war zones. Be fair in your comments, not so one-sided. You speak from emotion, not fact. Unfortunately, that seems to be the nature of many Hillary supporters.

[BDunne]

one person does not equate to Obama "supporters" -- how about an Obama supporter?

[grayforester]

Man, that's the darkest I've ever seen Bill Richardson's skin! Is that A.P. photo for real?

[chlllfactor]

Governor Richardson is half Hispanic and lives in the sunbelt. Your point is....?

[darker]

Feud? FEUD? How about a return to Republican FEUDALISM?

While y'all are scratchin' your ANGER ITCH over bullsh*t,

your ass is being painted as a TARGET for Republican RAPISTS all over again.

Get some COMMON SENSE and vote for whoever is NOT REPUBLICAN.

[marthlois]

Clinton camp says this .....Clinton camp says that!
This is what I'd like to have the Clinton camp answer to:
The fact that THREE days after the PA primary, they head to court
for their 17million dollar Peter Paul vs. Clinton Trial re: campaign
fraud. Clintons - please speak about this:
"Another Hillary SECRETHere's an update on the Peter Paul vs. Clintons lawsuit:
Link
DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT. Go to Link (Los Angeles Superior Court) and look in the CIVIL Column, then Click on CASE SUMMARIES then enter these numbers in the box BC304174. It is an active case and has been since January. Sen. Clinton he has not disclosed it. Even after bringing up Rezko and calling Sen. Obama "Ken Starr". I think, before we go any further, she needs to disclose this.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/n ews/articl­e.asp?ARTI­CLE_ID=494 78

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =lPgC0-0bY0Q
utube has parts 1 and 2.
WHY IS THE PRESS KEEPING THIS QUIET?????

[Mattie]

are you a right wing loon, or an Obama supporter, can't tell you apart anymore!

[PhyloSeFiser]

Is it any wonder that people, of any persuasion, are questioning Hillary's integrity?

Especially after this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It6JN7ALF7Y

[chlllfactor]

Facts certainly do roll over the Hillary supporters -unfortunately they cannot see the tree for the forest.

[Nofuzzydreams]

Cannot see the tree for the forest? Exactly what does that mean?? Can someone explain please?? Or did he mean forest through the trees?? Well if it is forest through the trees, the problem is there are so many rotten trees in the Obama forest - Wright, Malcolm X, Farakkan, the forest is dying so it is hard to see!!!

[MartinEdwinAndersen]

Obama supporter Bill Richardson is not--to use weird James Carville's Easter metaphor--a "Judas" ... unless you share the cultish view that the Clintons are our Messiah.

However, there seem to be quite a few Barabbas--thieves that got away--peopling Hillary's campaign.

Remember the pardons for union-busting Marc Rich and the narcotics traffickers?

Remember the sleezy get-rich-quick schemes the Clintons themselves engaged in?

Remember the credible allegations of mistreatment by several of Bill's paramours?

Remember the theft of the dreams of an entire Democratic Party, which had to watch their leader--a serial lout--defend himself on national television for peccadillos not even acceptable for adolescents in high school?

I really don't care to see him featured on a cable television program about "Ex-Presidents Gone Wild."

Don't care to see him occupying the White House, which is maintained by the taxpayer.

Really don't care to go down that road when the country is facing so many problems in so many areas.

Move on, mates. Just move on.

[vsign]

Bill Richardson got something. Like Secretary of State. He clearly said on the morning show that it is his turn. So this is a contest of races in the party. No more partnership. Blacks and browns want one of their own. All race. All color of skin.

Dr King tried to teach us how to judge character - instead of skin color.

He'd be sad about this.

[themightylex]

Vsign.
that was utter nonesense.

Bill Richardson did not get promised anything for his endorsement. He did it because he saw the hope and positive energy of what the Obama campaign.

The venom of the Clinton Machine over this is it's own evidence of why he made the right decision.

[yamoah]

wow...

perhaps this may help...

http://www.hillarythemovie.com/trailer.html

[julescator]

Hillary is a HUGE liar. Just check out her Bosnia story and all the other lies, peace in Ireland, Rowanda, she is a piece of work. anyone who voted for that liar is either stupid or on her fast dwindling payroll. she has no money from trying to buy the election. How much does it cost to get a person to peep Barack's passport and then come out 2 days later and say he hasn't been to any NATO countries? hummmm I don't hear her clammoring for any debates, she couldn't stand the heat with all those redacted reports of her non-experience and lies. What a pathalogical liar and dirt bag.

[foreverleft]

Good Lord. The language here is less than would be expected from the self appointed Messiah. Let's start a rumor that Barack was actually smuggled in from Indonesia and therefore ineligable as a candidate.

[utd]

You forgot to mention her time spent working at Rose Law Firm, her 6 years on the Board of Directors at Wal-Mart while they spent a great deal of time keeping union free, then magically supporting NAFTA which oddly enough was a great boon to her Wal-Mart stock, her amazing good fortune spending $1000.00 on cattle futures and making $100,000.00 with in a year, whitewater and why she ransacked that dudes office the second they found out he committed suicide (shredding party anyone??), travelgate, her tax returns for the last 7 years, her earmarks from congress which are grossly disproportionate to other congressional members as best we can tell, and on, and on, and on.

[Mattie]

that's funny, CNN did a whole piece on it, and they said her claims were very credible. Morning Joe just read all kinds of quotes from newspapers at the time, and they backed up her story. I guess you find Obama's claims that he sat in his church pew and never heard any hate speech credible. Oh wait, he changed his story a few days later, my mistake! LOL politics of hope and change!

[yamoah]

http://www.hillarythemovie.com/trailer.html

[Nonamnesiac]

Obama has proven himself to be as unprincipled -- as selfish and as much of a lowlife -- as Hillary is. He is willing to see John McCain win in November -- as his decision to torpedo a rerun of the MI and FL primaries almost guarantees that both states end up in McCain's camp.

Both states are critical populous states and at least one, and probably both, must vote for the Democratic nominee in November in order for the Dem. to prevail -- whichever Dem gets the nomination. Michigan has been a very close blue state and FL voted blue in 2000, although its votes were counted as red votes. As a result of a squabble between the State parties and the DNC, the primary votes of the Democratic electorate of both states were obtained in violation of DNC rules agreed to by all of the parties. If tha's not fixed so that their votes are fairly county, it will infuriate enough of the campaign workers in each state (the ones who actually get out the vote and who, for the most part are the delegates to the Convention) that they will not work as hard to get out the vote. It will also turn off enough of the MI and FL elecotrate -- that their votes were ignored or compromised by the Democratic Party -- that a significant number will not vote, vote Nader or vote McCain.

Low life Hillary's proposals were obviously designed to have the primaries rerun in a manner most beneficial to her. But low life Obama realized if he could just deprive the voters of MI and FL (the most innocent in the whole process) of their votes, he is almost assured of the nomination. So he's willing to roll the dice regarding November with respect to the FL and MI electorates. What a load.

If Hillary and Obama will not sit down and hammer this out personally, without their self-interested, contemptible staffs, and come up with a solution that satisfies all -- for the good of the Democratic electorate -- neither is Presidential material. The delegates should bolt both of them and nominate someone capable of unifying the party AND the Democratic electorate from every state possible. Otherwise the Dems lose the White House to a contemptibe, lying, stupid warmongerer that makes George Bush look smart and honest.

[EvoMan]

What a load? A. Load. Of. Crap. The respective state legislatures nixed the re-votes. Blame them and the state parties for breaking the rules. Stupid rules? Perhaps, but rules non-the-less. Blaming Senator Obama is a stretch.

Before you start calling an accomplished individual a low-life, a little self-examination may be in order. What exactly have you done lately? There is one person, and one person only responsible for where things are today. And she has the power to change things by gracefully withdrawing and supporting the nominee.

[Nonamnesiac]

Whoever reads this blog, it's important to ignore the Obama and Hillary partisans. They can't see the forest through the trees. It's more important to them to win the nomination than it is to win the general election.

Neither side's partisans get it.

Democrats must flood both campaigns with demands these two self-seeking, lowlifes fix the MI/FL problem now and stop trying to blame each other for what went wrong. They are the candidates and have the power to fix it.

If they don't fix it, then neither should be nominated in Denver.

[yamoah]

Perhaps this might help....

http://www.hillarythemovie.com/trailer.html

[ChiGuy]

"...almost guarantees that both states end up in McCain's camp."

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On what do you base this statement?

Facts or conjecture?

[Nonamnesiac]

Gore took Michigan by a little over 5 points. Kerry took Michigan by 3.5 points. According to 3/12/08 Rasmussen, McCain leads both Obama and Clinton by 3 points.

You do the math. I know -- Hillary and Obama manipulating the Michigan electorate, regardless of the fault of the state parties or the DNC, has nothing to do with it.

They must sit down, without their self-serving staffs, and fix the problem or neither one will win in November. And both, and everyone else who doesn't want another stupid, barbaric, warmongerer as President (and McCain may be stupider than W), should primarily be focused on November.

If they can't or won't do that -- unite the Party and the electorate -- when both basically agree on the issues -- neither should get the nomination, as neither is competent enough to be President.

[EvoMan]

Senator Obama is certainly not an unprincipled low-life. I doubt you know enough of him to make such a judgement.

[julescator]

You must be nuts. Your problem is with the DNC and the STate legislatures. I am so sorry that we can't change the rules for Hillary every time she has a hissy fit. She signed the document and she knew the rules and she was fine with them as long as she thought she would win by feb 4th. the arrogance. Now that didn't happen and she was totally unprepared to actually campaign. When she did, most people liked Obama. Now she wants to change the rules knowing full well that if the shoe were on the other foot, she would do the same as Obama. She has followers she can lead by the nose with her lies about Bosnia and her gutter and nasty campaign. America is saying NO to Hillary and she is not used to that. Get over it.

[justwaitandsee]

Your first four words assements of Nonamnesiac was right on point....NUTS

[vincie]

first of all, the congress in florida zapped the democrats, they are republicans. second of all, obama is the only candidate that advertised on tv in florida. third of all, this is america, every vote should count, but obama is afraid to have those two states vote again. look at the poll in florida. he would get creamed again. he can't win a big state, the democrats are certainly going to carry utah, kansas, s carolina alabama in your dreams. on cnn when the vote in missouri was being counted they had a map up, and obama had a slight win. i looked at the map, it was all blue for hillary, where obama won was in the two parts of the state where blacks lived. come again, he can't even win missouri in ghe general election. sorry, these are the facts. missouri is a swing state, which we need to win.

[knerd]

The rules are the rules. Or should be.

Both Florida and Michigan agreed to them. As a result, the natural consequences followed.

Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama were told the primaries would not count. Obama's name was not even on the Michigan ballot.

Now that the primary race has been running as close as it has, Hillary is suddenly willing to forgo prior agreements and consequences to do an about-face power play to get the delegates of both states. The subsequent uproar of the people and the delegates of the two states has led Obama, rightly, to insist that some sort of agreement can probably still be reached before the Dem Convention in Denver.

Hasn't Obama been playing by the rules and been reasonable the whole time--or am I just missing something? It's not in his DNA to play the power politico in full tilt Clinton mode,

[EvoMan]

Hillary didn't even win her home town of Park Ridge, Illinois. Granted, she hasn't lived there in years. But, Obama did win Hawaii and he hasn't lived there in years either.

[Laprawler501]

Well I mean if you dont win Park Ridge forget it just drop out now.

[EvoMan]

No, but if you're behind and have no chance of winning without creating a train-wreck, you should do the right thing and withdraw.

[ChiGuy]

Extrapolating such results might be new to you, but political analysts do it all the time.

I live near Park Ridge, and I know people that reside there. The suburb was absolutely giddy when their hometown girl announced her candidacy, but she destroyed that good will and lost her hometown.

How do you think people without that built-in allegiance in other parts of the country feel?

[PhDiva]

She lost a lot more than that, buddy. Come on.

[Mattie]

wow, what news!!!! That's it for me, I'm forgetting all about the God damn America remark, he carried Hawaii!

[tea in the harbor]

Let me give y'all a little dose of this, like the vast majority of eligible voters in this country, I don't belong to either party, don't care for the taste of red or blue kool-ade. When I went into the Air Force, it wasn't about protecting a preferred creed, it was about protecting this country! BOTH Parties are corrupt, top to bottom! The slimier you are the better you do in American politics. Somehow, Obama slipped through, he doesn't have the stench shared by the rest, so I think he deserves a chance. I don't claim any divine knowledge, but I know the DC Dung beetle will never be endangered, and if we could have one guy, one time, that hadn't just emerged from a sphincter, donkey or elephant, I think we might have a More Perfect Union! Call me an optimist!

[vincie]

obama doesn't have the stench, look at rev right. the stench is more powerfull then back eggs.