Bill Richardson is Out
To the surprise of, well, nobody, Bill Richardson is dropping out of the presidential race. A person with a remarkable and impressive resumé - U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Governor of New Mexico, Congressman, Secretary of Energy, and who knows what else - it appears to me he could not catch on with voters because of his lack of focus and discipline on the debates.
I was very disappointed with his performance early on, particularly on the LOGO debate, where he essentially said sexual orientation was a choice. It was such an awful blunder that Melissa Etheridge threw him a life jacket and said "let me ask you this again." And when he answered he gave this dumbfounding answer about how he didn't know, he wasn't sure, because he wasn't a scientist, you know.
He could make a great V.P. choice - they only get one debate, after all - but he would have to become better at delivering his message.
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At least he paves the way for a future run by another Latino, someone with more personality like Villaraigosa.
Villaraigosa?! Ramirez, I would agree with you if Villaraigosa hadn't run out on his wife and kids like he did last year. He was our shining star, but he let his swinging dick get in the way.
Sure, Villaraigosa has personality, but he also comes with a lot of baggage. And short brown men with baggage don't have the privileges and get the free passes that tall white men with familial legacies do.
I would agree with you if Villaraigosa hadn't run out on his wife and kids like he did last year. He was our shining star, but he let his swinging dick get in the way.
Two words adriana: Rudy Giuliani.
Sure, Villaraigosa has personality, but he also comes with a lot of baggage.
Being from the East Coast, I am not terribly in touch with what happens politically West of . . . Chicago? So, can you expand on that thought, adriana? If being a mujeriego is his only "baggage" then, isn't he really guilty of lack of discretion?
Rudy Giuliani has white privilege working in his favor. Italian-Americans have become main stream in the last 100 years. It is a little easier for him to get away with marital infidelity than Antonio Villaraigosa. Besides Antonio Villaraigosa doesn’t have any big accomplishments as mayor of LA, and he didn’t have a big tragedy that has occurred while in office to splash his name on the national scene. Maybe if LA finally has the "big one" (earthquake) and Villaraigosa comes out like a hero, people will look beyond his personal life. Is it fair? No, but Villaraigosa made national news because of the fallout from his marriage not because he fixed the schools in his city or the potholes and roads.
Adriana, if the only baggage Villaraigosa has is his infidelity, then I beg to differ on whether he's "damaged goods." Besides, he's a Democrat and Democrats are far more tolerant of those types of indiscretions than Republicans.
He's new and he hasn't built enough of a record. By the time he does, unless he ends up sleeping with all of L.A.'s female population, people will forget about this. Don't dig his political grave just yet.
I think you are missing my point re: Villaraigosa.
"Besides, he's a Democrat and Democrats are far more tolerant of those types of indiscretions than Republicans."
Democrats are more tolerant of white men who do this, such as Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, etc. We are talking about Antonio Villaraigosa, who doesn't have the advantage of millions of dollars, a family political legacy, or even white skin. Latino and black politicians have to be better than their white counterparts, and we are witnessing this with Obama. Look at all of the talk about the drug use in his youth, yet white men tend to get a pass on this by saying they didn't inhale or denying it altogether like GWB.