Bill Richardson - Did he cost himself a VP position today?

I don't know who he has advising him on foreign policy issues. But his statements about forcing Musharraf to resign were very careless.

I clearly think Biden should be a must choice for the Dem winner. In my opinion, I think Richardson is out.

I said it as well. That would not be a good move right now.

I can't believe Bill, with all his experience, would say something like this. Oh well, at least he is a good governor.

I don't understand your conviction that he won't get the nomination....this thing hasn't even started, yet.

edit:totally flubbed candidates

I'm going to edit that.

been paying attention. He has been a complete ass all through this campaign.

He's being lambasted by the mainstream media. I'd like to see someone interview him in order to explain his statement. Clearly he has no love for General Musharraf--nor should he--we've been giving Musharraf billions of dollars to go after Al Queda and Musharraf has essentially struck a hands off deal with the border tribal regions where Al Queda and the Taliban are training and regouping. Now we have the very convenient assassination of Musharraf's chief rival a few weeks before the election and the victim (postmortemly) fingering Musharraf as either the culprit or an accessory to the crime.

The foreign policy establishment and the mainstream media have been pushing the idea that Musharraf couldn't, wouldn't harm a hair on Bhutto's head. Since the foreign policy establishment and the mainstream media have been wrong at just about every thing that has happened since 9/11 and particularly about the Iraq war, I don't much trust their judgement.

My guess though is that Richardson may, unfortunately, have done what Howard Dean did when he said that Saddam Hussein's capture was not going to make America any safer. This was trumpeted by the same people who are now trashing Richardson as evidence of Dean's lack of foreign policy knowhow and general ineptitude. It may have cost him the nomination.

As we all know, Howard Dean turned out to be tragically right in his judgement--it may be that Bill Richardson may also be right about Musharraf in the long run.

While supporters of other candidates are lambasting Richardson, over what I think is a policy change that was long needed, congress has recently put some restrictions on the aid. I'm not sure how binding the restrictions are since it apparently requires Shrub Inc to make the call whether Pakistan meets the requirements.

I think he lost any opportunity for a cabinet spot, too.

And he's absolutely right.

when you're talking about a country that has;

1. Radicals
2. Al Qaeda
3. NUKES

As opposed to making a "bold" statement.

Dean was right and I suspect that Richardson is right too. Musharraf has been playing both ends against the middle. While he may have not personally had a hand in assassinating Bhutto, he clearly wanted her out of Pakistan and at least in her opinion, did not do much to protect her once she was there. In the meantime he's been taking billions of U.S. Taxpayer's dollars to fight Al Queda but strangely enough the Taliban has used its bases in Pakistan to launch a resurgence, Al Queda appears to be doing quite well, thank you and Osama Bin Laden is presumably alive and well and capable of producing and distributing very nicely taped messages to the world whenever he feels like.

Something's wrong here.