Richardson thanks Iowa for “making democracy look good.” Then he informed the audience, “You’re going to hear a lot of speeches tonight, the last one a very good one.” Guess he got the excerpts. He said America “shouldn’t be just the world’s policeman, it should be the world’s conscience,” which had the unfortunate effect of making me imagine him dressed as Jiminey Cricket.
He also talked a lot about Iraq, mentioning, not for the first time, that “the leading candidates are talking about keeping troops there until 2013.” Funny, however, that when a Richardson staffer came around with a flyer about exactly that issue, it was not aimed at the “leading candidates,” it was all about Edwards:
![richardsonflier](http://swampland.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2008/10/richardsonflier-2.jpg" width="484" height="363" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;"/></span></p>
<p>Richardson took a very high-minded stand against picking on Hillary in the next debate, and people thought that might be another scene from his audition for vice president. Moving from protecting her from attacks to attacking other candidates makes it looks like he’s already got the job.</p>
<p>UPDATE:</p>
<p>Or, maybe not. After she spoke, I found this:</p>
<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image"><img alt="clintontoo" src=)
Maybe after Obama’s will come next.
UPDATE:
As I was saying:
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