...and this non-story is over.

Whew! I, for one, was on the edge of my seat. The whole primary season was held in the balance.

No Greg, we "had it" long ago. Only you blathering on with anonymous made-up irrelvance pushed by Camp-Clinton, blather which doesn't even rise to the level of High School BFF fights even gives a rip about this non-story about a non-issue "now have it".

What next, Melissa said that Debbie overheard Kelly talking about Ashley flirting with Tom who everyone knows Paige has a crush on... what a bitch Ashley is for doing that, so therefore John McCain has crossed the CinC threshold?

O for the love of Pete - Bill, Hillary - get over it!

I'm beginning to feel like they are pitching fits because they weren't voted King and Queen of the Senior Class.

Guys - dignity - please.

So we have an identifable Richardson spokesman on record vs the whisperings of some unnamed Clinton surrogate, high-level donor, etc.

And on another note, it looks like the Clinton team is moving the goalposts on PA :

The consensus within the political community has been that Hillary Rodham Clinton had to take the state big, perhaps by double digits, to be able to claim that she'd won it a way that matters in the overall nomination struggle -- given her deficits in both the delegate race and the overall popular voter. But her strategists say that such thinking should not apply, now that Barack Obama has completed a six-day bus tour of the states and has outspent Clinton by a huge margin on television commercials.

Howard Wolfson, Clinton's communications director, said: "Pennsylvania, absent the resource differential, ought to be a fair fight for the two candidates." He noted that Pennsylvania is a swing state in a general election and, in some senses, a microcosm of the country. For Obama, he said, failure to win it would raise renewed questions about the Illinois senator's ability to win big states and to close the deal with voters.

"Sen. Obama ought to be able to win. I think they expect to win," Wolfson said. "If they fail to win there, they will have failed in Pennsylvania."

In other words, now that "the Obama campaign is now fully engaged in the fight for Pennsylvania," as Wolfson put it, Clinton shouldn't be held to any margin-of-victory standard on April 22. Said Wolfson for those who might not have gotten the point: "I believe that a win is a win."

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/politics/17260149.html

This story demonstrates how Clinton leads by example and it's that kind of leadership this country needs so desperately right now. Oh wait, I'm sorry, I just can't help myself - I just keep mispeaking. Bloody tourettes!

This is incredibly stupid. Either Halperin is lying or Clinton's aides were lying. It makes ZERO sense that Bill Richardson and Hillary would agree that Obama was unelectable, but Richardson would endorse him anyway. This is just not a credible story at all.

Well, to me, this was important.

Bill Richardson is a good man who went with his conscience. And he got torn down by the Clinton camp. First by Carville, being called "Judas" just before Easter, and then by whatever Hillary Camp insiders claimed that he lied.

If a Super Delegate who we all thought would go with Obama decided to change his mind and go for Hillary, I'm sure Obama would've simply shrugged, called it "disappointing", followed it up with a statement like, "Well, I still respect so-and-so and if they feel they made the right decision, I'm comfortable with that". He wouldn't deliberately demonize the SD the way that the Clinton Camp has Bill Richardson. That, to me, is important.

Sheesh. The Clintons have sunk really low in calling Richardson a judas and a liar.

Why was anyone believing the "anonymous Clinton staffers"???

Hillary is the one that has been telling people that Obama can't win. What makes her claim really really really credible is the fact that Senator Obama is beating her. Who are you going to trust that Winning Obama guy, or Hillary Rambo Clinton, The Heroine of Tuzla, who has an Obama shoe print on the seat of most her ample Pantsuits!

I don't get the Clinton's thought process behind this. All they're accomplishing is making the Richardson endorsement seem huge. If they'd stop pissing about it the media would have forgotten about it weeks ago.

Tax returns! What tax returns?

We're very busy, you know. Please don't be disrespectful to the former Vice President. Oops, I meant, First Lady. And the omissions, deletions, and disappearences are entirely due to Sen. Clinton's need to provide for the privacy of others and for National Security. So, Hope you're not really holding your breath on this.

Why in the HELL did the Clintons raise this issue?

"Never kick a fresh cow pie on a hot day." -Harry S. Truman.

Yeah, agreed -- my first thought was that this was a gangland hit meant to intimidate the other uncommitted superdelegates to remember their Code of Silence. "See Sonny lying in the road with a zillion bullets in him? Don't let this happen to you.."

But my second thought was, Are they that willing for Hispanics in Pennsylvania to get pissed off at the way Richardson was treated, just to shut up a few SDs?

I hope this backfires big time.

This just in: Clinton campaign denying that Clinton denied telling Richardson that Obama is unelectable:

"That's a no," Clinton, D-N.Y., told reporters at the end of a press conference in Burbank, California, when asked if she made the comment in a private conversation with Richardson.

"We have been going back and forth in this campaign of who said what to whom and let me say this, that I don't talk about private conversations but I have consistently made the case that I can win," she said earlier in the press conference.

Clinton aides now insist the Senator misunderstood the question, asserting the candidate believed she was answering whether or not she would discuss a private conversation.

"I just double checked," Doug Hattaway, Clinton spokesperson told ABC News, "She was saying she was not going to tell (the reporter) about her private conversation."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/03/richardson-denies-saying_n_94988.html

I deny that I denied my denials about denying those statements about my denial. Could this be any clearer? I think not.

Now watch while my campaign manager shoots himself - and me - in the foot by taking money from those trying to promote agreements I deny supporting.

Let's see, you broke this blockbuster story with your stirring "Did So!" story, now you have followed up with a hard-hitting "Did Not!" sequel.

Get this kid a Pultizer.