Richardson Mailer Attacks Hillary, Edwards, And Obama On Iraq
A new Bill Richardson mailer in New Hampshire -- forwarded our way by a Dem operative -- attacks Hillary, Obama and Edwards by name on Iraq, claiming that he's the only candidate who will pull all our troops out of Iraq. "Clinton, Edwards, Obama: Tens of thousands left behind," the mailer warns.
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Comments (10)
CalD wrote on January 1, 2008 2:04 PM:I have an idea that Richardson will get a few delegates; perhaps in urban centers and college towns where he's been talking enough like and old hippie to sweep up a few Kucinich and Dodd people, maybe in some of the several towns and counties with double-digit hispanic populations, perhaps in exurban areas where maybe a dozen people show up to caucus and two or three people can make all the difference. Biden too, for that matter.
Kucinich actually got something like 1% of the delegates in 2004, despite having been polling at maybe 3% in the pre-caucus polls when he registered at all. I don't know where he got them but if I were guessing, I'd guess college towns. So if there's sufficent clumpiness in either Richarson or Biden's support they could very possibly reel in a few too. I have an idea that Biden is likely spread pretty evenly throughout the state though. And of course, Kucinich or Dodd's people would just about have to all be clustered in a ver small areas for them come away with delegates.
kjoe wrote on January 1, 2008 3:39 PM:So, is Hillary paying for this? His criticism cannot hurt her more than her 2002 vote, so it is directed mostly at Obama and edwards.
Richard L. Adlof wrote on January 1, 2008 3:47 PM:Has Dennis Kucinich stopped being canidiate?
Steve Charb wrote on January 1, 2008 4:01 PM:His plan for ending the war is just plain wasteful: the soldiers ditching all the equipment, weapons, vehicles, supplies, and resources, and running across the border to Kuwait.
What's more, he vocally supported this war from the start. No wonder Richardson isn't talking about his flip-flopping!
john mccutchen wrote on January 1, 2008 4:11 PM:One of Sgt. Kleefeld's favorite cut and pasted "sources" asks:
Ben Smith, the Politico.comstlounick wrote on January 1, 2008 5:03 PM:
What Foreign Policy Expertise
Hillary doesn't know that Musharaff is President of Pakistan http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/Clinton_errs_on_Pakistan_.html
CalD, Richardson isn't talking like an old hippy, he's just talking like an idiot who apparently has his own ideas about how to safely withdraw without incurring casualties. I would really hate to be the last 100 Americans in Iraq with Richardson in charge of a withdrawal.
CalD wrote on January 1, 2008 8:07 PM:Either Richardson sounds a lot like an old hippie, or old hippies sound a lot like Richardson. I suppose either is possible, but the former is still more likely.
heretic wrote on January 1, 2008 9:58 PM:Ummm. If I recall, Edwards voted for the AUMF, too. His apology hardly gets him off the hook. Obama wasn't in office, so what he said he would have done is a red herring, IMO. Fact is, since reaching the Senate, Obama has voted no differently than Hillary on all but one issue. See the chart.
stlounick wrote on January 1, 2008 11:38 PM:Yes, yes, heretic, your chart illuminates all--that's sarcasm, son.
You apparently trust our resident genius (may the door not hit him in the a$$ in 2009 on his way back to Crawford) to safely and quickly remove our military based on Congressional wishes. Or perhaps you trust our resident genius to transfer money around in the budget to cover any Congressional shortfall--after all, that's what Bill Clinton did for his bill on the Balkans adventure. Or did you even know that?
Our little Democratic geniuses in the 2002 Senate enabled this mess. Hey, I have an idea. Let's reward one of them with the Democratic nomination for president. After all, enabling our resident genius was A-okay now wasn't it?
Stop blaming Obama for being an enabler. He wasn't. But Clinton and Edwards surely were--joined by Biden and Dodd with Richardson cheering it on from the sidelines. Great judgment our Democratic "leaders" had in 2002, wouldn't you agree? Again, that's sarcasm.
Support judgment. Vote Obama.
Greg DeLassus wrote on January 2, 2008 12:31 PM:Hm, there goes the Richardson-is-running-for-vp hypothesis. This cannot help his chances to be picked for the #2 spot on anyone's ticket.
Incidentally, while I find the idea of an immediate withdrawl emotionally satisfying (getting my brother out of there would make me sleep much more easily at night) I have to agree with Steve Charb above. Not only is such a precipitous withdrawl wasteful, it is also dangerous. Do we really want to leave all of that advanced weaponry technology in the hands of whomever takes over once we leave? For better or worse, it seems to me that Bush has punched the tar baby, so we are stuck. That is not to say that we ought not to be trying to extricate ourselves, but there is really no effective way at this point to do so quickly. It will be done gradually or not at all (not at all because if we leave precipitously we will simply have to go right back in in a year or so when things become so generally destabilizing as to be intolerable even to ourselves here in the U.S.).
