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Richardson to Help Clinton Ease Debt
June 29, 2008 3:18 PM
ABC News' David Chalian Reports: Clinton ally James Carville may have called him "Judas" when he endorsed Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in March, but that isn't stopping Gov. Bill Richardson D-NM., from offering to raise money to help Sen. Clinton retire her significant campaign debt.
"We've been asked to help. So in principle we are going to help," Richardson told ABC News after addressing members of the Democratic Leadership Council in Chicago at the centrist group's annual gathering. "I think the party needs to come together," he added.
Richardson cautioned that the healing process inside the Democratic Party after its protracted nomination battle may not yet be complete. "Everybody's a human being. There still probably is a need to heal a little bit. It's not going to come back and be together right away. It may take a little time," Richardson told the crowd in his prepared remarks. "I mean, I hope not too much longer," he added to laughter in the audience. Gov. Richardson then mentioned that he has seen some hopeful signs of the party stitching itself back together and that he is "going to be involved in a debt event for Sen. Clinton in New Mexico." He later added that the event has yet to be scheduled.
President Clinton worked hard to woo his former cabinet secretary's support for his wife's candidacy after Gov. Richardson ended his own bid for the Democratic nomination. In January, Mr. Clinton flew to Santa Fe, New Mexico to watch the Super Bowl with Gov. Richardson as part of the outreach effort. Gov. Richardson ultimately decided to endorse Sen. Obama's candidacy in March which was received as a great affront inside the Clinton campaign at the time. Gov. Richardson noted today that his endorsement of Sen. Obama got more public attention than either his campaign announcement or withdrawal speeches.
In his remarks at the DLC, Gov. Richardson addressed six major foreign policy/national security challenges awaiting the next president including nuclear proliferation and the rapid rise of China and India. He said that before Barack Obama said a word at his inauguration, the image of a "young man with an internationalist background" would immediately work to restore the United States' reputation around the world.
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Hillary, please do not accept any help from Judas!! He is a traitor, let him be for the rest of his life.
Obama can retire your loans - you are helping him so much! That's fair and square.
Posted by: Jkan | Jun 29, 2008 3:31:00 PM
Judas is only thinking of his position in the party and his next job. Be assured that he is not doing this out of the goodness of his heart....
Posted by: Foodforthought | Jun 29, 2008 3:41:45 PM
Tell him to get lost.Obama picks him for VP he lost.
Posted by: roncraw | Jun 29, 2008 4:07:40 PM
I hope that all of us that can will do our best to help Hillary Clinton pay off ALL of her campaign debt quickly. She deserves that. You all knew Hillary, and Bill would go out on a limb for us if they felt they had too. That's what they do. :-) As I said before Hillary Clinton was STUNNING!!!
You witnessed the greatest political campaign struggle in American history. One for the textbooks, and the history books. Hillary Clinton fought her heart out against all odds to win for all of the American people. While at the same time doing her best to prepare Sen. Barack Obama to win in November if he was the nominee. STUNNING!!! WELL DONE HILLARY CLINTON. WELL DONE! Your AMAZING! :-)
Sen. Obama could not have had a better opponent than Hillary Clinton. Nor could he have had a better opponent to prepare him for the battle royal to come against John McCain and the Republicans ahead of the November elections. Hillary Clinton was like a big Mama cat determined to teach her kitten how to hunt, and hang with the big dogs for the fights ahead. The Clinton's have won the Whitehouse twice before. They know what it will take.
Hillary Clinton took Sen. Obama to every brawl, and cat fight she could find for him to develop his fight, and his chops. She even let her men (President Clinton, Governor Rendell, and many others) loose on Sen. Obama a little bit. So as to give Sen. Obama a taste of just how rough, and tough the big boys will be to do battle with. :-)
From sea to shining sea and US territories Hillary Clinton took Sen. Obama to see all of America. To meet, and greet all it's people. And to ask for their votes and support, which he will need if he becomes President. She took him to see what he will be fighting for. And to see what she and President Clinton have fought so heroically for over so many years. Sen. Obama could not have ask for any better. Nor had any better teachers.
Bill Clinton, Chelsea, Mrs. Rodham, and the whole Clinton team were magnificent. They really showed their metal. BRAVO! TEAM CLINTON... BRAVO!
And YOU! my fellow Americans. I'm so proud of you. And proud to be one of you. You showed what you are made of. And what makes America so great. You never gave up on your Champion Hillary Clinton. Time, and time again you eagerly waited your turn to vote for Hillary Clinton. To raise her up and pass her along down the line to the rest of your waiting fellow Americans.
You never gave up on her. Just as Hillary Clinton never gave up on you. No matter how many times they counted her out. No matter how many times her detractors, and attackers brutally knocked her down. You knew she would get back up and get after it. And when she did you were ready to support her. This is your role model America. AMERICA LOVES A FIGHTER. AMERICA UNDERSTANDS A FIGHTER. AMERICA IS A FIGHTER. I'M PROUD OF YOU AMERICA!
Sen. Clinton looked a little tired her first day back at work in the senate after her history making heroic campaign. She has good reason to be tired. Doesn't she America. But with time and good attention to the basics she, and you will recover. The basics are good well balanced nutrition, hydration, rest, exercise, recreation, POSITIVE! emotional support, and time (the greatest healer of all).
Y'all be good to President Clinton. I never saw a man fight so hard for a woman, and the American people as President Clinton fought for Hillary Clinton, and you. It's going to take Bill a while. No one except Hillary Clinton could have fought any harder than President Clinton did for you.
I imagine President Clinton still remembers how the American people wailed, reached, and cried out for him as he took that last flight home as your President on Air Force One after the 2000 elections. Yes, many of us knew back then what was coming for the American people under a republican administration. Back to living like dumb animals again. Fighting over territory, and scraps of meat. You are dieing like fly's now. Republicans too. But it's ok because some people are making a lot of money off of your needless deaths. :-(
As always, Hillary Clinton, and President Clinton did their best for all of us. It was an EPIC!
YOU MADE US VERY PROUD HILLARY CLINTON! HOLD YOUR HEAD HIGH :-)
WE LOVE YOU. AND ADMIRE YOU...
jacksmith... Working Class :-)
Posted by: jacksmith | Jun 29, 2008 4:07:54 PM
That's awesome that Richardson will be helping Hillary retire her debt.
Posted by: whoghea | Jun 29, 2008 4:09:19 PM
OK, so what does that mean? "We have been asked to help. So in principle we are going to help." I can do a lot of things "in principle" while sitting on my a$$ doing nothing. And how is Obama a "young man with an internationalist background" who can accomplish great things before he even says a word at his inaguration? Obama has never worked or studied abroad unless you count up until the age of 12 when he attended school in Nigeria when he lived with his mother and stepfather. And I highly doubt he has the power to transform our reputation around the world without saying a word. What, are they playing sublimal messages at his speeches? Does he have everyone hypnotized? Who writes Richardson's speeches for him? It's ok to try to make your candidate look good, but at least try to keep some perspective on what this guy can or cannot accomplish. Next thing you know, he'll be able to cure cancer and he's found intelligent life on Mars.
Posted by: Melanie | Jun 29, 2008 4:27:01 PM
Richardson, how his he going to help Obama? He could neither raise the money nor attract Hispanics for his own campaign. Guess Hillary has taken the spotlight and VP consideratin from good old Judas.
Posted by: evie | Jun 29, 2008 4:28:10 PM
I would say no to Richardson - the traitor.
Will never never never vote for Obama.
My admiration for Hillary grows with each day that passes.
Posted by: Judy from Ohio | Jun 29, 2008 4:39:24 PM
Judy from Ohio
how much have you donated to pay off Hillary's debts? Pay up or shut up.
Posted by: Dot | Jun 29, 2008 4:43:47 PM
Hillary Clinton would make the best president this country has ever had. Everyone should do what they can to retire her debt. She loves America and its people with all her heart, and shows it in her words and work. Please do what you can to help this true American. Go to www.hillaryclinton.com.
Posted by: Alex01 | Jun 29, 2008 4:47:42 PM
Frankly how pathetic some Hillary supporters are if they really don't want Richardson to help. Calling him a 'traitor' is a little unfair, he never endorsed Hillary just because hge served in Bill's cabinet doesn't tie him into supporting the Clintons forever. I feel sympathy for Hillary but I am begining to lose patience with her supporters given there frankly shameful desire to campaign against the principles that there candidate stood for, by being so anti Obama and anything to do with him.
Posted by: markymark | Jun 29, 2008 4:48:42 PM
markymark - I have great admiration for Hillary - she is an intelligent and classy lady and I truly believe she has our country's good at heart. But like you, I am losing patience with people who have no desire to help her retire her debt - only berate those who are willing to do so. I am with Dot - put up or shut up!
Posted by: sandy | Jun 29, 2008 4:52:53 PM
This is just Richardson's way to keep his name in the press since he was one of the great dividers and is being called on like everyone else to be a uniter.
Go Hillary. The numbnuts at the head of the Dems, read Donna Brazille and Howard Dean, need to mend their fences BIG TIME with Hillary. She is still the most qualified dynamic star on the polical horizon and may be called on yet to run against McCain. Stranger things have happened.
Posted by: DD | Jun 29, 2008 4:53:49 PM
Just say no to Judas. Get his fat a$$ off the stage.
Posted by: Terry | Jun 29, 2008 5:00:41 PM
markymark:
These trolls posing as Hillary supporters would love nothing more than for any Democratic effort to fail. They are pretending to be pro-Hillary, but are merely using that as a guise to launch smears against Bill Richardson. Its the same old tactic from the Karl Rove days.
Bill Richardson enjoys strong support amongst the Hispanic Americans. Just look at the speech McCain gave this weekend to the Latinos to see what these negative blogs are doing. McCain gets heckled in an adjacent state to his own. Kinda says something.
Don't believe anyone who claims to be a Hillary supporter that doesn't want to see her retire her campaign debt. Its just those hateful trolls trying to stir up yet another smear campaign.
Posted by: Sharon2 | Jun 29, 2008 5:00:43 PM
Judas, LOL! You guys are really funny. You all sound like James Carville puppets.
All that ugliness sunk her campaign.
She could have stayed in the race in a more fiscally responsible way. Paying those jokers $8 million per month to mismanage her campaign is a travesity. She needs to dip into her own pocket to pay off her debts.
Bill Richardson didn't rack up her debt and should not be forced into retiring it.
Posted by: jmc663 | Jun 29, 2008 5:04:04 PM
This is nothing but an attempt to rub salt on the wound. Obama and his men are really enjoying the way Sen. Clinton's campaign finance was poorly managed. They have rewarded Patti Sollis Doyle, the chief culprit, who blew most of the money during the Iowa caucus. These guys are gleefully watching every day passing by, with very little time left for Sen. Clinton to get rid of her campaign debt. We, the so-called ardent supporters of her should hang our heads in shame, for not doing enough, for not giving enough, and for not reaching out to other people to help her get rid of her debt. The Obamas and the Richardsons are not needed.
Posted by: Paula | Jun 29, 2008 5:04:07 PM
Help retire Hillary's debt at www.hillaryclinton.com. Maybe Obama plans to select Richardson as a VP candidate, but Richardson does not have recent name recognition except as a person disloyal to those who helped him along the way. It would be nice if he would help erase Hillary's debt with a fund raiser, but why no date for the event yet?
Posted by: Sally | Jun 29, 2008 5:04:15 PM
I do not trust you Judas Richardson! What are you after? I wish Hillary did not take his money! this man doesn't do anything for nothing! I think they are all so scare because BHO is behind even though the media puts him up in polls! Beleive me, there are millions of us PUMAS who will not vote for rookie Obama in november and they are feeling our strong movement! This is a fight for JUSTICE, not abortion rights! We were robbed and cheated by the D party and they must pay for all of their disrectpect to us voters. NOBAMA, Richardson! Start looking for a new job! your state voted for Hillary, not BHO!
Posted by: Amarissa | Jun 29, 2008 5:05:03 PM
amarissa wrote:
We were robbed and cheated by the D party and they must pay for all of their disrectpect to us voters.
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Geez, listen to all this "victim speak" you girls kill me. What an embarrassment you are to women around the world. Sore loser, sour grape loving, bitter women.
Go pet your Pumas. LOL!
Posted by: jmc663 | Jun 29, 2008 5:07:52 PM
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