Calling Bill Richardson “disloyal” for not endorsing Hillary Clinton is the same BS crony politics that we’re so used to. See, the implication that Richardson somehow owes the Clintons something for making him Secretary of Energy is patently screwed up. That was years ago, and Richardson and Hillary Clinton have differing views on several issues that have gone on in oh, the past eight years?

Besides that, I thought that when a president appointed a cabinet, he chose people based on their skills and talents, not on whether they’d later endorse his wife for the same position he already held? I thought that our political system was a meritocracy, not one based on nepotism and cronyism? Anyone remember Brownie and his “heckuva job”?

Where were the calls of disloyalty when Bill Richardson chose to run against Hillary Clinton in the first place? I mean, that seems like some serious disloyalty there, unless they thought Richardson would make a good straw man for Clinton run against and be gracious in defeat and roll out the red carpet for her when she was ‘inevitable.’

Too bad that at this point, she’s anything but inevitable and every endorsement that goes Obama’s way is one more superdelegate she won’t be getting to overrule the will of the actual voters.

All these calls of disloyalty rankle me about as much as the claim by the president of NOW NY that Ted Kennedy was somehow betraying all women when he endorsed Barack Obama.

Funny, I never thought of Teddy as a great friend to women everywhere, but then I never thought of Bill Clinton that way either. And I didn’t consider it a personal betrayal when he endorsed the candidate that I’ve supported from the beginning because I thought he was better on issues that mattered to me: the war, human rights, foreign relations, crime and drug policy, etc.

The idea that the Clintons somehow are owed something by everyone they gave a job in Bill’s administration just rubs me the wrong way. Aren’t we fighting to throw out an administration based on sweetheart deals for old friends?

And how can Clinton surrogates on one hand claim that the superdelegates–and even the pledged delegates!–aren’t required to vote for who they are pledged to, and on the other hand throw a hissy fit when a former administration official endorses their rival?

Entitlement. Screw that.

Posted: March 29th, 2008 under Bullshit, Politics.
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