National blogger tells Democrats to end affair with Obama, get behind Bill Richardson

A regular blogger for a national, liberal news Web site says Gov. Bill Richardson should be the Democrats’ 2008 presidential nominee.

In a posting on Huffington Post headlined, “Enough with Obama already: We’re electing a president, not a personality,” Russell Shaw wrote that Sen. Barack Obama lacks the experience to be president.

Richardson, on the other hand, “does have the experience,” Shaw wrote. “Valuable gubernatorial executive experience running a growing and complex state? Right where he is. Valuable national executive experience? Was Energy Department secretary under Clinton. International diplomatic experience? Was the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. During his 14 years as a Congressperson, (as compared to Sen. Obama’s two years), he garnered significant foreign policy knowledge.”

“And if we must look for ethnic cachet? Half Latino, fluent in Spanish with a father of Mexican extraction born in Guatemala, he’s got plenty of that,” he wrote. “When Clinton needed someone to talk to Fidel Castro, it was Richardson who he sent.”

Shaw wrote that Richardson, if elected, should give Obama a cabinet-level position.

“Already well traveled on official missions in much of the world, Obama could be secretary of state and a damn good one. That would be a perfect burnish on a record of experience he could campaign on in 2012. Or 2016,” he wrote. “But not in 2008. Not yet.”