I‘d sort of forgotten about Richardson–it seems like so long ago that this campaign started. It was nice of him to endorse in the middle of the Pastor Disaster, assuming that this is the middle and Obama is actually able to bring this to a close in a week’s time. But according to Memeorandum, the Richardson endorsement rates somewhat less interesting than the now bipartisan passportgate, the sudden, collective epiphany that Hillary has no path to the nomination, and the Reverend. Obama is going to need a lot of help with the Hispanic vote, and now that I’m reminded of Richardson’s existence, it strikes me that he may make more sense as a VP than Jim Webb (I’m thinking that Rev. Wright may have been all the crazy an Obama campaign can stomach). Still, Richardson has his own problems. Writing at the Current, Graeme Wood explains:
Wood adds that in the end, Richardson faired poorly among Hispanic voters, raising the question of whether electing one of their own is particularly important to that community. And to top it off, Ambinder posts Richardson’s endorsement speech which the Obama campaign distributed:
