{"id":3833,"date":"2008-10-10T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/10\/richardson-says-rift-with-bill-clinton-persists\/"},"modified":"2008-10-10T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T19:00:00","slug":"richardson-says-rift-with-bill-clinton-persists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/10\/richardson-says-rift-with-bill-clinton-persists\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson says rift with Bill Clinton persists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SO-RwIaYQFI\/AAAAAAAAJAs\/gPN2DCVDujA\/s1600-h\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SO-RwIaYQFI\/AAAAAAAAJAs\/gPN2DCVDujA\/s200\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255579546242531410\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>File this under the \u201cWe\u2019re-fighting-two-wars-and-the-economy-is-tanking-so-I-don\u2019t-care\u201d category if you want, but I still figured it was worth a small mention.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> says his endorsement of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryclinton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> may have created a \u201cpermanent fissure\u201d with former President <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Clinton\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Clinton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cIt could be pretty much a permanent fissure. But that\u2019s politics, that\u2019s OK,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> told National Public Radio on Thursday, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/politico\/20081009\/pl_politico\/14423\" target=\"_blank\">The Politico<\/a>. \u201cI did what I thought was best for the country. I\u2019m still very fond of the <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Clintons<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. I\u2019ve reconciled with her. But with him &#8212; he wants to keep a grudge, that\u2019s fine with me. I move on. I\u2019m governor of <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. I\u2019m happy where I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SO-Rp7pu1dI\/AAAAAAAAJAk\/Ary7Z6dNkYo\/s1600-h\/Clinton,+Bill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SO-Rp7pu1dI\/AAAAAAAAJAk\/Ary7Z6dNkYo\/s200\/Clinton,+Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255579439738050002\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> refused to endorse a candidate for several weeks after dropping out of the presidential race and, before he endorsed Obama, was heavily courted by both candidates. He watched the Super Bowl with Bill Clinton, who insists that <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> pledged to back Hillary Clinton at that time. <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> says he never made such a promise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">One high-profile <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> supporter called Richardson \u201cJudas\u201d for endorsing Obama. In an effort to patch things up, <st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city> recently held two fundraisers in <st1:state st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:state> to help <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> retire her campaign debt, and the two appeared together at a rally in Espa\u00f1ola for Obama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For whatever it\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File this under the \u201cWe\u2019re-fighting-two-wars-and-the-economy-is-tanking-so-I-don\u2019t-care\u201d category if you want, but I still figured it was worth a small mention. Gov. Bill Richardson says his endorsement of Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton may have created a \u201cpermanent fissure\u201d with former President Bill Clinton. \u201cIt could be pretty much a permanent fissure. But that\u2019s politics, that\u2019s OK,\u201d [&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-3833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833","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=3833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}