{"id":758,"date":"2006-10-24T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/while-richardson-hides-clinton-debates\/"},"modified":"2006-10-24T07:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T13:08:00","slug":"while-richardson-hides-clinton-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/while-richardson-hides-clinton-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"While Richardson hides, Clinton debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Clinton%2C%20Hillary.1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Clinton%2C%20Hillary.1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Score one for Hillary Clinton.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">While N.M. Gov. Bill Richardson was who-knows-where (cutting a ribbon? speaking in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:state st=\"on\">New Hampshire<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>?) on Friday, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., was debating the opponent in her Senate race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Republican John Spencer is way behind <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> in the polls. His campaign has been abandoned by his party. <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> could have written him off as irrelevant. She could have made some lame excuse about how a debate would hurt the state and refused to do it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Debate%20ducker.12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Debate%20ducker.12.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>But she didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Contrast that to <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s refusal to debate his opponent, Republican John Dendahl. While <st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city> is making excuses, <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, a probable 2008 presidential contender, is taking part in Democracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">She\u2019s honing her debating skills while <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> hones his ability to grip and grin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You can read about <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>\u2019s debate from the Associated Press by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20061021\/ap_on_el_se\/new_york_senate_debate_9\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">While we\u2019re on the subject of <st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city>, I wrote last week that the Republican Governors\u2019 Association was running a funny television ad in the <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> market attacking his jaunts around the nation. You can watch it by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rga.org\/Multimedia\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Score one for Hillary Clinton. While N.M. Gov. Bill Richardson was who-knows-where (cutting a ribbon? speaking in New Hampshire?) on Friday, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., was debating the opponent in her Senate race. Republican John Spencer is way behind Clinton in the polls. His campaign has been abandoned by his party. Clinton could have [&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-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","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=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}