Richardson Names Names

[babylonsister]

http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/richardson_names_names?tx=3

Richardson Names Names
Submitted by Bill Scher on June 19, 2007 - 10:09am.

Presidential hopeful Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., addressed Take Back America earlier this hour, and as far as I know, this was the first time he criticized Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards by name for not supporting his position on Iraq: "I would leave zero troops behind, not a single one."

Calling for a "New Realism For Foreign Policy," Richardson proposed replacing US troops with an "all-Muslim peacekeeping force," then convening a "national reconciliation conference" and a conference with Iraq's neighbors including Iran and Syria. "That's how we avoid a regional war," said Richardson.

He lambasted the original Iraq supplemental bill, the one that President Bush vetoed, for being ridden with "loopholes" that would allow some troops to remain indefinitely. He needled Clinton and Obama for voting for it, and Edwards for wanting that bill to be returned to the president's desk again and again.

The other half of Richardson's address laid out his strategy to combat global warming, which was released a few weeks ago.

He called for a new automobile fuel-efficiency standard of 50 miles per gallon, calling the proposal on the Senate floor of 35 mpg "weak." He pledged to sign the Kyoto treaty to slash greenhouse gas emissions, and boasted that his state already adheres to its provisions.

[wakeme2008]

1. For Richardson being a DLCer, I wonder about

his non-DLC views and how true they are.

[Warpy]

2. I think the heat he took here during his first three years in office

when his fuckups were all DLC inspired things like lowering income tax on the state's few rich people and refusing to allow an investigation into the stolen 2004 election have caused him to rethink a few things. His last 2 1/2 years have been very good ones here and he's enjoying a lot of support in this state, even if his prescience in getting a north-south commuter rail line built hasn't been widely acknowledged.

We could do a lot worse than a Richardson presidency.

[wyldwolf]

3. ..yeah, after he tried to scrub his website of details of him supporting the same positions

[babylonsister]

5. I applaud anyone who might rethink their position and ADMIT it,

unlike some candidates I'm aware of...
That's called growing and shouldn't be discouraged.

[wyldwolf]

7. yeah, me, too. But that isn't what he did.

he scrubbed his website of all references to his recent agreements with the top 3, trying to make it look as though he never thought that way.

[BootinUp]

4. This is interesting. n/t

[polichick]

6. Good ideas...

I had thought he was running for Hillary's veep ~ maybe not, or maybe he's gonna be the lefty on the ticket.