Why Are You Rubbing It In, Bill Richardson?
TRIP TO SUDAN IS YET ANOTHER NOTCH IN PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE’S IMPRESSIVE FOREIGN POLICY BELT
FITSNews – January 5, 2007 - CNN’s political ticker is reporting that New Mexico Gov. (and bolo tie wearer) Bill Richardson is headed to the Sudan on a diplomatic mission aimed at resolving the Darfur crisis.
This is unfair of course because Gov. Richardson, the former United Nations Ambassador and Energy Secretary under President Clinton, already has a foreign policy resume that dwarfs his Democratic competition. In fact, this trip to the Sudan (for some reason we like saying “the Sudan” instead of just “Sudan”) strikes us as Bill Richardson rubbing it in, like when a football team is already kicking its opponents’ ass but it keeps running flea-flickers and fake punts and stuff.
On top of that, Richardson’s trips abroad aren’t like Mitt Romney’s, which are basically the same thing as a five year-old shading in Virginia with a pink crayon on their “States I’ve Been To” coloring map. Except maybe not even as important as that.
Richardson is actually meeting with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in an attempt to persuade him to accept a peacekeeping force in the Darfur region, which apparently bears a close resemblance to the Lake of Fire right about now. We have never heard of Darfur, but a lot of A-List Hollywood celebrities including George Clooney have heard of it because it was on MTV. And they want peace, dammit. Save Darfur. Rock on.
Richardson’s trip does highlight his impressive Presidential credentials at a critical time.
Lost in the media swooning over Barack Obama – who isn’t going to Darfur to help negotiate a peacekeeping force but apparently did speak at a Darfur rally once – there are viable candidates like New Mexico’s governor who, well, has lots of non-pretend foreign policy experience.
We have always liked Bill Richardson. This home slice grooves on the Laffer curve. He cut income taxes in New Mexico from 8.2% to 4.9% over five years, people. Word. That is like so dope. Job creation, yo. So fresh, so clean. So … Keri? So very?
He also wears a bolo tie frequently, which makes him a stone cold pimp in our book.
