Your Humble Blogger is aware that y’all are sick of this, but Matthew Yglesias has more information about Presidential candidates and their advisors. In this case, it’s the Dems’ advisors on Iraq, who according to Jason Horowitz in the New York Observer all have a weekly lunch and seminar with Richard Holbrooke. I just want to emphasize that: All the Democratic candidates have advisors on Iraq, who all meet weekly with Richard Holbrooke. Now, I’m not Richard Holbrooke’s biggest fan, but can I just say that I think it’s terrific that the various candidates staffs (staves?) are talking with each other, and that it’s just possible that some of the candidates glimpse that they are all working together to govern the country, whoever winds up in the White House?
That said, I am not enthused that Senator Clinton’s point person on Iraq is out of Joe Lieberman’s office. I mean, it’s possible that he left the CT-ID office in disgust, but I suspect that even if that’s so, it would have been after our Junior Senator had gone a long way down the road he’s stuck on now. I’d be careful of asking any of his buddies for directions, and I’d want to know why the Senior Senator from New York is hiring out of that office in the first place. After all, one would think that she, more than anyone, would have the pick of the experienced crop. Other than Governor Richardson. I mean, she’d get to pick before the Governor, but she would get to pick the Governor. Not yet.
So, conversation starter: Is Governor Richardson running for Vice-President or for Secretary of State? I mean, I kind of like him at the top of the ticket (tentatively, tentatively) but that ain’t gonna happen, right?
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,
-Vardibidian.
Inevitability is out, this election. Anything can happen. I know it’s true because I read it in The New York Times, the Paper of Record.
That said, it’s hard to see how Richardson is going to get past Senators Clinton, Obama, and Edwards in the polls.
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