Bill Richardson: Another Superdelegate for Obama

Plus he'll get another day of coverage from the cable networks when he unveils the endorsement.

Good way to turn the page going into the weekend.

KT here--

Personal note: This will be my last day posting for a while. I'm taking the next week off, so I can take the Swampkids to see the grandparents and catch a Spurs game. This will also give Commenter HH a well-earned break from his campaign to correct my moral and professional failings.

A nice pick up for Obama although had it come earlier it would have been better. Texas and the west/southwest.

Have a nice vacation KT. This place will be worse for it.

Good for Bill. After the NYT story yesterday that Clinton was trying use the Wright controversy to scare super delegates into supporting her it's important that some high profile supers step up to support Obama. They need to send Clinton a message that her tactics are not going to work.

This surprises me some. I think Richardson is closer politically to Clinton on many issues.

It's probably a matter of backing the winning horse though.

taking the swampkids to a spurs game KT? Perhaps I should call child services....GO CAVS!! (we ohioans are loyal to our hopeless cases)...haave a nice vacation, recharge the batteries and come back here with new insights.

we ohioans are loyal to our hopeless cases

As an SEC fan and more specifically, a University of Florida alum, I'm shocked by this statement. :snicker:

Kiss the rings.

Word in NM circles (I'm from there but don't live there anymore) is that Bill and Hillary never got along even though the Bills did.

Didn't Hillary win the NM primary? I know the supers can do whatever they want but when you're the governor of a state and your people have voted and you go against the majority of them, well, you should at least answer for the disparity.

Have a great vacation!

Have a wonderful vacation, Karen.

The amount of luck Obama has had over the last 24 hours is insane. The Wright-Clinton picture, passport snooping replacing wright on major news networks as the top obama story, michigan deciding not to have a revote, richardson endorsing him. Short of a Clinton endorsement from Gore or Edwards, I think the beast may finally be slain.

Have a nice vacation KT.

Hopefully, in your absence, someone will keep us abreast on Passportgate...

Disenfranchised_Libertarian:

As lucky as one gets when the fire is blazing, the rope has been tossed over a tree, and the mob has found the target of their ire has escapeed...

ok florida, you had your little run (albeit with an Ohio boy coaching). but let us count the number of national championships betwixt my alma mater THE Ohio State University and those couple y'all have. (i will give you urban myer is a great coach though...but i still havent seen him build a program and continue the tradition. he is a bit of a wanderer)

Now, they are just standing there, grumbling, shotguns pointed at the ground. The guy with the horse to be led under the tree drops the reigns.

The horse whinnys, softly.

Hot Damn! He got away!

A horse whinnys again.

An argument breaks out amongst the drunkest of the group.

Who was watching him!

I dunno! It wasn't MY fault! He's just gone!

Mike M --
"Didn't Hillary win the NM primary? I know the supers can do whatever they want but when you're the governor of a state and your people have voted and you go against the majority of them, well, you should at least answer for the disparity."

You don't understand. The superdelagates are only required to follow the people's will if the people voted for Obama.

And in case no one caught the symbolism, the call came in at 3 am (Pacific time).

Sorry for the long comment, but this is pretty interesting. A Yale religion professor posts on Obama's speech:

Recall the words that have received the most airtime and sparked the great outrage: “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes three-strike laws and wants them to sing God Bless America. No! No No! God damn America … for killing innocent people. God damn America for threatening citizens as less than humans. God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and supreme.” As many of his defenders have noted, this and other statements by Wright statements are wholly within the covenant logic. When the Chosen people violate the covenant, God will punish them. But right-wing patriotism, in its pseudo-Christian and secular variants, does not allow for this possibility. It assumes that America has been chosen once and for all, and that it has a monopoly on God’s blessings.

As E.J. Dionne Jr. notes in a recent editorial in the Washington Post, the rhetoric of Martin Luther King - one of America’s secular saints and its only black one - could be every bit as prophetic in tone as Wright’s. Consider what “King said about the Vietnam War at his own Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Feb. 4, 1968: ‘God didn’t call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war. … And we are criminals in that war. We’ve committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I’m going to continue to say it. And we won’t stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation. But God has a way of even putting nations in their place.’ King then predicted this response from the Almighty: ‘And if you don’t stop your reckless course, I’ll rise up and break the backbone of your power.’”

This is not to imply that all conservative Christians who have allied themselves with the pseudo-Christians and Captain Americas have completely sloughed off the two-way logic of the covenant. None other than Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson (in)famously claimed that 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina were divine punishment for Roe v. Wade. However, those who still see the covenant as a two-way transaction, implying both blessings and sufferings, operate with a minimalistic and individualistic version of Christian ethics focused solely on pelvic issues and bereft of prophetic calls for social justice.

The comparison with Falwell and Robertson also reveals another important aspect of crusader nationalism: its Faustian pact with racial divisiveness. Why do conservatives not hold the Falwells and Robertsons and Dobsons of the world to the same standard? Clearly, there is a double standard at work here. It is acceptable for a white preacher to speak in the angry voice of a prophet; it is not acceptable for black preacher to do so. Indeed, this is now the central tactic in the campaign of personal destruction being waged against Barack Obama by the right-wing noise machine: to make him into an “angry, black man.” It’s been road-tested by Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. It will be part of the endless loop of the fall campaign.

Nor is this new. Crusader nationalism and racial division are really two sides of the same coin. If crusader nationalism is the bond, or one of the bonds, that holds defense conservatives and religious conservatives together, racial division is the wedge that was used to separate the “Reagan Democrats” from the New Deal coalition. The first step in the construction of the Reagan coalition was, of course, the Southern strategy of Richard Nixon, the use of carefully coded race-baiting to alienate working-class whites from the Democratic party. From Nixon’s allusions to “states rights” and “law and order” through Reagan’s “welfare queens” and Bush Sr.’s “Willie Horton” ad, this has been a staple of Republican campaigns for over three decades.

To make a new Democratic coalition, one must therefore unmake the Reagan coalition...

...While crusader nationalism rests on a denuded notion of divine election, civil religion is anchored in a secularized notion of covenant. In this vision, the covenant is not a license to kill one’s enemies; it is a promise to live towards one’s principles. These are not religious principles in the strict sense. Rather, they are political principles with a transcendent orientation and strong parallels to religious principles: social justice, civic duty, human rights, and so on. Not Biblical principles, then, but principles for which one can find a Biblical warrant...

Insofar as the Republican coalition relies on racial antagonism, unmaking it requires racial reconciliation. But that is only a first step. The second step is to reconfigure the party landscape around class, to establish an alliance between the economically underprivileged and the culturally privileged, between those bereft of economic capital (black and white), and those rich in cultural capital (the “latte liberals”). Of course, the language of class is verboten in American public discourse. And Obama does not use it. Instead, in an Edwards moment, Obama argues that “the real culprits of the middle class squeeze ” are “a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed; a Washington dominated by lobbyists and special interests; economic policies that favor the few over the many.” Here, he invokes the approved language of populism, pitting ordinary people against greedy corporations and Washington lobbyists, against economic exploiters and pseudo-intellectuals.

This language has a second advantage as well. Not only does it allow him to elide the forbidden language of “class warfare.” It also allows him to invoke the language of democratic sovereignty and national identity. For “the people” is a term that plays on two registers: class as well as nation. In this way, demands for social justice are implicitly linked with claims to popular sovereignty and patriotism. And rejection of those demands appears as un-democratic and un-American.

As Todd Gitlin noted long ago, one of the greatest political handicaps that has limited the liberal left over the last three decades is its renunciation of the language of patriotism and national identity. In burning the American flag, both figuratively and literally, the left allowed the right to seize it up and drape it around their shoulders. I would add to this a second limitation: the full-throated embrace of liberal secularism by the intellectual allies of the Democratic party. In my view, this position is both illegitimate and misguided. Illegitimate insofar as the insistence that religious reasons be excluded from the public square is at odds with core liberal principles of freedom of conscience and expression. Misguided insofar as America remains, for better or worse, a highly religious country in the conventional sense of that term. For both those reasons, liberal secularism is not the proper rallying cry for a new, Democratic majority. Neither, of course, is religious nationalism. That leaves us with civil religion. And it is Obama’s genius to have recognized this.

Let us look at the sort of civil religion that he proposes. Beginning with his victory speech in Iowa, Obama has sought to recast and recapture the language of patriotism and national identity, by offering a vision of America as a nation of principles rather than a nation of power. In his speech on race, Obama echoed Lincoln and King in speaking of the Declaration and the Constitution as national covenants that spell out the sacred principles on which America was founded and to which it must hold true. He thereby redefined patriotism in terms of civic engagement, rather than military engagement.

These words have brought chills and tears to many of his supporters, myself included. Why? Because they - we — have been told that we are no longer real Americans, and seen America transformed into something we no longer wish to identify with: Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Katrina, preemptive war, warrantless wiretapping, etc. etc.. We should listen to these emotions, because they tell us something profound and important about politics, namely, that political solidarity cannot be based solely on shared interests and that political allegiances are not based solely on rational choices.

Neither, however, can it be based on diverse identities, on “celebrating diversity.” There is nothing wrong with celebrating diversity, of course. But these celebrations tend to be short. The long celebrations are celebrations of particularity. Celebrating diversity is not an effective means of building an enduring, political coalition in a culturally diverse, nation such as the US. Common principles and collective rituals are necessary.

One of the great, unremarked advantages of the Republican coalition over the last three decades has been its ethnic and cultural homogeneity. Apart from a few Jewish and black neo-conservatives — the Bill Kristols and Ken Blackwells — it is overwhelmingly white and evangelical. One of the great, unremarked difficulties that has confronted the Democratic party from Jackson onwards, is constructing a coalition of the excluded and the marginalized: immigrants, African-Americans, the white working classes, and intellectuals. And that is Obama’s gambit: “to continue the long march of those who came before us, a march for a more just, more equal, more free, more caring and more prosperous America.”

(Sorry, that was a bit long. I probably should have just linked.)

Stay classy, Mark Penn. One wonders if that quote could also be applied to yourself.

Have a great vacation, Karen.

Sorry you weren't there for the Spurs game against the Celtics last night.

(Congrats, Florida, on the recent success of your amateur teams).

Sorry to break up the thread. Enjoy your vaca, Karen.

KT here--

Elvis: I think they were playing Dallas, though I realize all Texans can look alike. And it's true my team is not having their best season, but I love them anyway. Especially Manu Ginobili. If the game is really bad, I intend to take solace in the fact that the AT&T Center serves very good margaritas.

Penn's quote is hilarious.

Um, he's a superdelegate, wouldn't that be useful for either candidate?

I am dumb, and you are right-- Boston played at San Antonio three or four days earlier. Last night was in fact at Dallas.

Ginobili is having a pretty amazing year. The Spurs have been a pretty likable dynasty, which is hard to come by (see, e.g., Patriots Derangement Syndrome). Plus they have the bad luck of playing the the West, which is chock full of very good teams that won't even make the playoffs (like Denver, last I saw).

Anyway, have a great trip!

CNN is reporting that Superdelegates like Richardson are not the people who should be picking the nominees, the voters should. This is just TOOOO rich for words....

Fixing above -- Hillary is saying that Superdelegates like Richardson are not the people who should be picking the nominees, the voters should. This is just TOOOO rich for words....

Have a great vacation Karen. we'llmiss you in the swamp.

Bon voyage KT.

On-topic: Bill R. probably just doesn't want himself, and as an extension his party, to reap any obvious whirlwinds.

Yay for Bill Richardson!

He is so smart.

I think he would be a great VP for Obama.

This is a HUGE endorsement for Obama and couldn't have come at a BETTER time!
http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2008/03/speaking-of-obama-new-mexico-governor.html#links

No matter who you like or dislike, who ever it may be Hillary or Obama... WE must Stand Together!!! and Vote Democratic

I am a Obama supporter, but if Hillary is the pick I will do what's right for the nation and vote for her.

I have a daughter and I do not want her to grow up with another Bush.

We need to start thinking and stop letting the Media divide us. If I have to post this in every blog, every comment box to get my message out there-- then I will ....

STOP HATING ON EACH OTHER--- AND THINK!!! Vote Democratic NO MATTER WHAT!!!!

Mark Penn has forgotten about Puerto Rico --55 electoral votes.

Also, Bill Richardson is more than what Penn seems to be implying (only good for the Latino vote). He is a well respected statesman.

And btw, I believe Hillary only won NM by a few thousand votes.

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