{"id":4122,"date":"2009-01-11T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/01\/ouch-obama-makes-joke-at-guvs-expense\/"},"modified":"2009-01-11T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T05:26:00","slug":"ouch-obama-makes-joke-at-guvs-expense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/01\/ouch-obama-makes-joke-at-guvs-expense\/","title":{"rendered":"Ouch! Obama makes joke at guv&#8217;s expense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SWrUumgF-OI\/AAAAAAAAKSk\/nRjIQ2kyoHw\/s1600-h\/Obama,+Barack.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SWrUumgF-OI\/AAAAAAAAKSk\/nRjIQ2kyoHw\/s200\/Obama,+Barack.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290274609374296290\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He may not have intended it, but President-elect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a>, who at times has been known to make comments that could be interpreted as insensitive, made a joke at <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> expense on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Obama was asked on ABC News\u2019 \u201cThis Week\u201d about his family\u2019s search for a dog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThey seem to have narrowed it down to a labradoodle or a Portuguese water hound,\u201d Obama said. \u201c\u2026 Medium-sized dog, and so, we\u2019re now going to start looking at shelters to see when one of those dogs might come up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SWrUu8bbUuI\/AAAAAAAAKSs\/Ih_Ihcta2G0\/s1600-h\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SWrUu8bbUuI\/AAAAAAAAKSs\/Ih_Ihcta2G0\/s200\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290274615260304098\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\u201cSo, you\u2019re closing in on it?\u201d host George Stephanopoulos asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWe\u2019re closing in on it. This has been tougher than finding a commerce secretary,\u201d Obama replied with a smile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You can watch it by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/george\/2009\/01\/obama-finding-g.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The flip remark comes in the midst of what is a very serious situation in New Mexico. Richardson had to withdraw his nomination to be Obama\u2019s commerce secretary last Sunday because of a federal grand jury investigation into pay-to-play allegations in his administration, a growing controversy that has consumed headlines for the last week and promises to color the 60-day legislative session that begins Jan. 20. Obama has not nominated anyone to replace Richardson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He may not have intended it, but President-elect Barack Obama, who at times has been known to make comments that could be interpreted as insensitive, made a joke at Bill Richardson\u2019s expense on Sunday. Obama was asked on ABC News\u2019 \u201cThis Week\u201d about his family\u2019s search for a dog. \u201cThey seem to have narrowed it [&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-4122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122","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=4122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}