{"id":3254,"date":"2008-05-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/guv-comes-to-obamas-defense-mccain-hits-back\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T13:00:00","slug":"guv-comes-to-obamas-defense-mccain-hits-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/guv-comes-to-obamas-defense-mccain-hits-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Guv comes to Obama&#8217;s defense; McCain hits back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SDNDsYyZvAI\/AAAAAAAAFzU\/D1uqDStngK8\/s1600-h\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SDNDsYyZvAI\/AAAAAAAAFzU\/D1uqDStngK8\/s200\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202576424390212610\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> and GOP presidential nominee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmccain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John McCain<\/a> are in a battle over who is better in the international arena.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The fight apparently began on Tuesday when <st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city> was quoted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/miamiherald.typepad.com\/nakedpolitics\/2008\/05\/bill-richardson.html\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Herald\u2019s blog<\/a> defending Democratic presidential candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> from an attack McCain launched after Obama suggested that he would be open to talking to Cuban leader <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raul_castro\" target=\"_blank\">Raul Castro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cJohn McCain \u2013 like George Bush \u2013 is afraid to talk to bad guys,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> was quoted on the blog as saying. \u201cHe feels safer pretending to talk tough by hiding from them. &#8230; This is the Bush-McCain foreign policy that has failed all over the world, and it has failed to promote change in <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Cuba<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>. I have successfully negotiated with Castro and many like him, and I know that Barack has the judgment and experience to nudge the Cubans toward a better future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SDNDsoyZvBI\/AAAAAAAAFzc\/lx5fO2GX53Y\/s1600-h\/McCain,+John.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SDNDsoyZvBI\/AAAAAAAAFzc\/lx5fO2GX53Y\/s200\/McCain,+John.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202576428685179922\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The McCain campaign, in a statement released by the Republican National Committee, hit back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cBill Richardson\u2019s comical attempt to turn placating our enemies into an act of toughness is premised on a notion that most Americans know couldn\u2019t be further from the truth \u2013 that John McCain is afraid to talk to bad guys,\u201d McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said. \u201cGov. Richardson has had tea with a few of world\u2019s worst dictators. John McCain has not only talked tough but been tough in encounters with more bad guys than Bill Richardson will ever meet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThe idea that he is afraid to stand up to anyone for the interests and values of this country is as preposterous an idea as the tired clich\u00e9 that he is running for President Bush\u2019s third term,\u201d Bounds said. \u201cThe American people know John McCain, and they have no doubts about his toughness or that he is his own man. The same can\u2019t be said for Gov. Richardson and the candidate he eventually decided to support.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson and GOP presidential nominee John McCain are in a battle over who is better in the international arena. The fight apparently began on Tuesday when Richardson was quoted on the Miami Herald\u2019s blog defending Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from an attack McCain launched after Obama suggested that he would be open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}