Posted on 12/23/2010 3:54:59 PM PST by ColdOne
“I postponed the trip twice at the request of the administration,” Richardson said on MSNBC. “They signed off on this last trip.”
Richardson later said on CNN that when he spoke with officials before his trip, “the administration said, ‘As long as you say that it’s a private trip, go ahead.’ ” He also added, “While I was in North Korea, I did talk to the State Department.”
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Richardson is the biggest grand stander I have ever seen - short of Obama. Now he is taking credit for North Korea “showing restraint” when in fact North Korea uses him like a cell phone in their blackmail of the world.
Cute. Nothing more to say.
His mission to sabotage the South Korean response to the North was quite successful.
Richardson should have took Madeline Halfbrite back over there with him. They all could have caught up on the good ol’ days of the Clinton Admin.
This is NOT really about Richardson, but OBAMA, SURRENDERING — again — to N. Korea, using Richardson as an emissary.
Isn’t Richardson basically unemployed at present??
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