Bill Richardson on Fox News Sunday w/Chris Wallace--VERY interesting transcript!

Fox News Sunday ^ | November 11, 2007

[Ooh-Ah]

Pakistan--

RICHARDSON: ...let me say that I'm very skeptical of this announcement of President Musharraf. You can't have democracy halfway. Yes, he said he's going to have elections, but I'm skeptical. He still has a crackdown, martial law. The supreme court has been disbanded. I am extremely concerned that we are associating ourselves with a dictatorship that is basically just revamping the entire constitutional system to keep its purposes of being in power.

...Chris, I am extremely concerned that President Musharraf has not delivered, in my judgment, as much as he could on going after Al Qaida, on disbanding some of the terrorist headquarters that are on the Afghan-Pakistani border.

And it's a failure of leadership on the part of the Bush administration. We should be saying to Musharraf very clearly, "We give you $10 billion since 9/11. Unless you have free elections and return to democracy, unless you go after Al Qaida in a determined and effective way, your conditional assistance may be terminated."

That's what I would do. I think right now we have a failed nation state on our hands.

WALLACE: ...if they're not going to hold fair elections, if they're not going to lift the emergency rule, that we should cut off all aid.

If he says no, what does that do to our leverage in Pakistan? And what does that do to the ability of the Pakistani army, limited or unsuccessful as it may have been, in going after the terrorists?

RICHARDSON: Well, Chris, if I'd been president, I never would have had us in this situation. What we need to do now...

WALLACE: But we are in this situation, sir.

RICHARDSON: Well, right now Musharraf is in dear trouble. Al Qaeda is getting stronger. Our leverage, I believe, right now is almost vanished....

[Ooh-Ah]

His rationale for signing the bill giving drivers' licenses to illegals is interesting:

RICHARDSON: Chris, four years ago, the legislature sent a bill to me and, at the request of my law enforcement leaders, I signed it, which allows licenses for undocumented workers. The reason I did this is because there's a failure of an immigration law in the Congress and the president. It's a matter for us in New Mexico of public safety, of safety on the roads.

At the time that I signed the bill, 33 percent drivers were uninsured. Today it's 11 percent uninsured. This law has helped. It's a matter of public safety.

Now, I also have a responsibility as a governor, you know, when the federal government and the Congress don't act, to protect my citizens. That's the reason I did it, as a matter of public safety.

Also see Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 11 November 2007 for feedback on Richardson's appearance.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Did Richardson burst out laughing at inappropriate moments about serious questions?

Or does only Hillary do that?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Can we send Fat Boy off to Pakistan one way ?

[DakotaRed]

As I recall, Richardson basically filibustered the interview, making sure his points were spoken and Chris Wallace’s were spoken over.

Not abnormal for the moonbat left today.

[Richard Axtell]

Richardson has all the leadership qualities and strength of character of a puddle of goo. The man simply is not in touch with what everyone else calls reality, as this transcript makes clear.

[Enchante]

"At the time that I signed the bill, 33 percent drivers were uninsured. Today it's 11 percent uninsured. This law has helped. It's a matter of public safety."

b.s. Public safety would be better improved by having illegals IN JAIL and/or back in Mexico.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Bill Richardson on his campaign site: “This wall is a horrendous example of Washington misguided policy. Congress only funded half of the wall. And in addition that, if you’re going to build a 12-foot wall, you know what’s going to happen? A lot of 13-foot ladders. This is a terrible symbol of America.”

http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Bill_Richardson_Immigration.htm

[LegendHasIt]

NM pinglist;

A few good comments on the NM group board on this already.
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/profiles?location=79

[VeniVidiVici]

VERY interesting transcript!

Awww, man. I thought it was going to be him announcing he was an illegal or something.

[DoughtyOne]

Get that information out there

RICHARDSON: Well, first of all, I don't believe in UFOs. Secondly, I don't think there was any potential sightings. But the problem here, Chris, is like in many other cases, the federal government, instead of like releasing all the information when they had it and saying that this is all the documentation we have about those incidents in Roswell, never did it. So it causes enormous suspicion.

But the reality, really, is that in many cases the federal government, the Pentagon especially, should just release this information, all they have, just get it out there so the public can make up their minds.

Richardson may not be that bad after all.  Here is seems to agree with us that Bill Clinton should open up all his Presidential papers to the American Public.

We shouldn't have enormous suspicion.  They should just get it out there and let the public make up their minds.

What a great suggestion!

The War in Iraq

Richardson was out of his depth on this topic.  Chris mopped the floor with him.  What about all the success in Iraq?  Ahhh...  Why do you keep quoting a leader that hasn't been in charge for two years?  Ahh...  All Richardson could do is keep repeating that a diplomatic solution must be found.  If it involved the U.N. taking over and Iran and Syria picking the place clean, that was a great idea.  It sounded a lot like the concern people of his stripe had when Vietnam was surrendered.  We'll drop it like a pot of hot boiling water and everything will be okay when it hit's the floor...

Pakistan

Grave concern all around.  Musharraf is terrible.   We need to hold elections right away.  Bhutto should be given prominence.

If there's a defining moment when you know which way is right or wrong, just listen to a Democrat on the topic.  You'll know what is wrong immediately and do just the opposit of what they advise.

Vice President

It's hard to argue against Richardson being the choice for V.P.  As Ambassador to the United Nations, Bill drove Monica Lewinsky around looking for work.  Such deveotion to duty is hard to find in today's labor market.  What with all the good men like Vince Foster, Jerry Parks, Ron Brown and others dying off at an early age, you have to call on the good ones while they're still around.

[cricket]

. . .loved his comment; that he apparently could no longer contain; and so he was compelled to share; if only squeezed into no more than a mumbled offering.. .which in turn was approprately ignored by Wallace. . .

I do not want to be. . 'Vice-President'. . .

OMG. . .lol - say no more Bill!

[stylin19a]

Now, I also have a responsibility as a governor, you know, when the federal government and the Congress don't act, to protect my citizens.

[Joann37]

Wait a minute! After appearing on FNC for YEARS, didn’t Richardson, a few months ago, state that he along with the other creepy dems would have no part of the network? What gives?

And thank God I didn’t see that flake today!

[Ooh-Ah]

I think it's VERY interesting when you hear him and realize he has the best resume of all the Dems running!

He and all the others make Hillary look good, IF you vote for a Dem!

[Roy Tucker]

"...Congress only funded half of the wall. And in addition that, if you’re going to build a 12-foot wall, you know what’s going to happen? A lot of 13-foot ladders. This is a terrible symbol of America.”

Aren't 13 foot ladders with lots of Mexican's climbing over to escape a more terrible symbol of Mexico?

[Optimist]

>> “At the time that I signed the bill, 33 percent drivers were uninsured. Today it’s 11 percent uninsured. This law has helped. It’s a matter of public safety.”

This is the same argument the hildabeast is using, but I really question it’s application in reality.

Are we to believe that illegal aliens will get drivers licenses, which means taking driving tests and purchasing (and maintaining) insurance rather than just continuing on as they already are doing thus avoiding not only the hassle and exorbitant expense, but also the potential to be ID’d and targeted?

I don’t buy it. Unless they have an ulterior motive for the ID (such as easier access to US benefits) why bother and take the chance of (il)legal exposure?

[Brad from Tennessee]

Yeah.

Remember the Alamo!

[JimSEA]

We should be saying to Musharraf very clearly, "We give you $10 billion since 9/11. Unless you have free elections and return to democracy, unless you go after Al Qaida in a determined and effective way, your conditional assistance may be terminated."

For what it's worth, that is exactly what the current Administration is doing.

[Roy Tucker]

I’ll bet I know which side Bill Richardson would have fought on.

[MNJohnnie]

What an utter moron.

Yo Billy, Godfather of the North Korean Bomb, Richardson. Pakistan has nukes. We do NOT want those nukes in Islamic radicals hands. Also, if Pakistan falls, we are cut off from flying into Afghanistan so we have to pull out there.

Thus if Richardson was President at this time, he would magnify the Carter disaster with the Shah. His fundamental political ineptness would create an Afganistan-Iran-Pakistan Islamic radical block, a knife at the economic jugular of the West and a proxy state of the Chinese!

And he would create that disaster just to pander to the emotionally hysteric, rabidly ignorant moonbat fringe clowns of his political base. A Richardson Presidency would be so politically inept it would set back US strategic interests by decades and almost certain provoke a Pakistani-India war!

This guy is so not ready for the big league.