For months now I've been waiting to join the live autopsy on the failed Bill Richardson presidential campaign corpse, and add my two cents plus interest.
See my earlier posts on Bill Richardson first, though, so you know where I'm coming from on him:
http://southbeachhoosier.blogspot.com/2007/09/us-constitution-still-apllies-in-south.html
http://southbeachhoosier.blogspot.com/2007/06/thoughts-on-bill-richardsons.html
That will come soon enough, as I describe some of the issues and steps my political campaign and media friends and I were continually emailing and calling each other about, as we watched his campaign implode in slow-motion for weeks. I'll try to share some of the steps he and the campaign needed to follow in order to ramp-up even before he officially announced, and thru either lack of courage, wisdom or common sense, or all three, he all but ignored, thus guaranteeing his lame current status, where the week that could've been, is instead the week where he's already long forgotten.
Tonight, on ABC's World News with Charlie Gibson, Kate Snow did the ubiquitous "The Latino Vote" story on the importance of this demographic in Nevada to pandering Dems, just hours before their curious Saturday caucus, where we now can see clearly that some unions are created a little more equal than others.
VIDEO: Webcast: The Race for Vegas
(If I caught it right, Kate even told us that, in essence, when you ask, "Como se dice "caucus" en espanol?" you'll get nada, as there is no exact translation of the word. Oddly enough, it's not said on this linked story, yet when I watched it on TV live at 6:30, I could've sworn she said it. I seem to also distinctly recall her saying Sergio Bendixen's name also, but... speaking of Sergio... http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-01-16-florida_N.htm)
Hear Kate's observations from Las Vegas in a Politics Live Now report, even talking about being with Chelsea for a few hours at UNLV.
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4156758
Don't know if the UNLV event with Chelsea was also a sorority thing, as when she was at Stanford recently -the Pi Phi house.
Stanford Daily's Editorial: Chelsea lacks class at exclusive event
http://www.stanforddaily.com/article/2008/1/16/editorialChelseaLacksClassAtExclusiveEvent
In the piece on the Nevada caucus, which is the logical result of the DNC wanting to be sure to show that they're as salsa-friendly as they are ethanol-friendly and maple syrup-friendly, Kate never said the name of the first and only Hispanic candidate to run, who some thought would use Nevada as a springboard. Guess who?
Letter of the Year -so far!- is an excellent Jan. 12th response to Andrew Sullivan's Jan. 9th post, How "Left" Is Obama? at The Daily Dish http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/01/how-left-is-oba.html
A former U of Chicago law student zeroes in on Obama's main weakness like a laser beam.
"Bottom line: Obama delivers a good message about ending divisiveness in Washington and working to find common ground. Perhaps the only opportunity in the last 4 years to test that message was the John Roberts vote, and Obama lined up with the partisans."
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/01/dissent-of-th-9.html#more
I thought the same exact thing at the time and wondered why so few others were willing to say so.
This reminds me, in an upcoming post I've been working on for a few weeks, I'll show you what the Chicago Tribune was writing about Obama before he was a pol and just Ye Olde Street Organizer on the South Side, and trust me, it's hardly magical or lyrical, and far from "a fairy tale."
http://www.southbeachhoosier.blogspot.com/