Maybe true, but not with Richardson. Typical political thinking of the Dims. Fill positions by quota rather than be merit.
As for Richardson:
Posted on 12/04/2008 5:00:24 PM PST by CedarDave
Check out this gold-plated resume: Seven-term member of Congress; special envoy to North Korea, Iraq, Cuba and Sudan; U.N. ambassador; energy secretary; governor; and five-time nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.
You would think such an overachiever would be a shoe-in for secretary of state in the Barack Obama administration, especially if that person was also a member of a highly sought-after ethnic group that gave two-thirds of its votes to Obama and helped him win four battleground states...
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Now I wonder what message it sends that President-elect Obama has apparently passed over [New Mexico Gov. Bill] Richardson and seems ready to offer the post at State to their former rival, Hillary Clinton. While known the world over from her days as first lady, Clinton doesn't have anywhere near Richardson's level of experience in foreign affairs. Besides, she treated Obama reprehensibly during the primary. Does anyone really think that if she had been elected president that she would be vetting Barack Obama for secretary of state?
After the snub, Richardson turned the other cheek and got slapped again. He is reportedly about to be offered, as a parting gift, a job – secretary of commerce – that someone else turned down. That someone else was Penny Pritzker, the president-elect's chief fundraiser who reportedly was Obama's choice for the post. A billionaire heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, Pritzker withdrew her name from consideration.
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Don't fall for the spin. It's humiliating to be second choice for secretary of state. But it is even more humiliating to be second choice for secretary of commerce.
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America's largest minority took a chance on Obama despite the fact that the president-elect had no track record in reaching out to them and didn't break a sweat trying to win their votes. They deserve better.
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Maybe true, but not with Richardson. Typical political thinking of the Dims. Fill positions by quota rather than be merit.
As for Richardson:
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I appropriated your D-A-D graphic!
¿Como se dice “pander” en Español?
“Check out this gold-plated resume: Seven-term member of Congress; special envoy to North Korea, Iraq, Cuba and Sudan; U.N. ambassador; energy secretary; governor; and five-time nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.”
Only in the halls of Washington can we have a so-called gold-plated resume that lists tasks but zero achievements. Let’s just take the countries mentioned as his special envoy assignments...North Korea, Iraq, Cuba, the Sudan. All are despot crap holes. So what did big Bill accompish?
Experienced at sampling exotic cuisine?
Why do they deserve better, or anything at all? By all rights, the US should just conquer Mexico, break in to six states, and then impose our laws on them. That would actually be the best thing for the Mexican people in the long run.
Oh yes, how silly of me. I should have figured that out on my own, given Billy-boy’s girth and abundant double chin.
Blacks hate Hispanics.
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