"I'm not going to get in the gutter like that," Richardson said of the comments from informal Clinton adviser James Carville. "And you know, that's typical of many of the people around Senator Clinton. They think they have a sense of entitlement to the presidency."Yikes. Now, obviously, Clinton herself surely had nothing to do with the Judas comparison--it's just one of her advisers spouting off, and she doesn't really have any control over that. However, I think that in the long run this sort of thing--the internecine name calling, spinning, belittling, misrepresenting, arm-twisting--has really soured the Democrat establishment on the Clintons. It has certainly soured Richardson.
Moreover, Obama seems to have taken the opposite tack, as illustrated in Richardson's entertaining account of how Obama once saved him during one of last year's Democratic primary debates:
"I had just been asked a question -- I don't remember which one -- and Obama was sitting right next to me. Then the moderator went across the room, I think to Chris Dodd, so I thought I was home free for a while. I wasn't going to listen to the next question. I was about to say something to Obama when the moderator turned to me and said, 'So, Gov. Richardson, what do you think of that?' But I wasn't paying any attention! I was about to say, 'Could you repeat the question? I wasn't listening.' But I wasn't about to say I wasn't listening. I looked at Obama. I was just horrified. And Obama whispered, 'Katrina. Katrina.' The question was on Katrina! So I said, 'On Katrina, my policy . . .' Obama could have just thrown me under the bus. So I said, 'Obama, that was good of you to do that.'"You have to wonder how little things like that affected Richardson's decision to endorse...
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