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Thread #101088   Message #2294632
Posted By: Amos
21-Mar-08 - 02:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views on Obama
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views on Obama
The byline on this excerpt from the WaPo is a great typo. I didn't know there was such a place.

"Updated 1:42 p.m.
By Jonathan Weisman
POTLAND, Ore. -- At a thunderous rally in Memorial Colliseum here, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president, appealing for peace in the Democratic Party and hailing the moment as historic.

"Your candidacy is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our country, and you are a once-in-a-lifetime leader," Richardson declared at Obama's side. "You will make every American proud to be an American."

The moment was a calculated effort to try to put to rest the increasingly divisive fight between Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) for the Democratic nomination. Both campaigns had assiduously courted Richardson, one of the nation's leading Latino political figures, ever since he dropped out of the presidential contest.

Richardson made his choice not when it could have mattered most politically, before the tight contest in Texas, but at a time of spiraling accusations and counter-accusations between the Clinton and Obama camps.

Richardson praised Clinton as a candidate and a leader, and he hailed the achievements of President Bill Clinton's administration, in which he served as ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary.

But, he added, "It is time for Democrats to stop fighting amongst ourselves and to prepare for the tough fight we have against John McCain."

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