The Washington Post reports that Bill Richardson’s endorsement is being heavily courted by both the Clinton and the Obama campaigns. He’s received calls from Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, as well as both candidates themselves.
Richardson is torn as he is an former member of the Clinton Administration. But as the Post reports, ” he said he likes Obama, telling a story about how Obama saved him from looking inattentive during one of last year’s Democratic debates:”
“I had just been asked a question — I don’t remember which one — and Obama was sitting right next to me. Then the moderator went across the room, I think to Chris Dodd, so I thought I was home free for a while. I wasn’t going to listen to the next question. I was about to say something to Obama when the moderator turned to me and said, ‘So, Gov. Richardson, what do you think of that?’ But I wasn’t paying any attention! I was about to say, ‘Could you repeat the question? I wasn’t listening.’ But I wasn’t about to say I wasn’t listening. I looked at Obama. I was just horrified. And Obama whispered, ‘Katrina. Katrina.’ The question was on Katrina! So I said, ‘On Katrina, my policy . . .’ Obama could have just thrown me under the bus. So I said, ‘Obama, that was good of you to do that.’”
Obama has always struck me as fiercely competitive. Do stories like this suggest that a fair and compassionate adversary as well?
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