All that wooing by Bill Clinton (not to mention those two cabinet jobs in his Administration) didn’t work. Bill Richardson, the nation’s only Hispanic governor, is endorsing Barack Obama, the AP reports:
“I believe he is the kind of once-in-a-lifetime leader that can bring our nation together and restore America’s moral leadership in the world,” Richardson said in a statement obtained by the AP. “As a presidential candidate, I know full well Sen. Obama’s unique moral ability to inspire the American people to confront our urgent challenges at home and abroad in a spirit of bipartisanship and reconciliation.”
I’m betting Bill Clinton will be watching the Super Bowl with someone else next year.
UPDATE at 10:40 a.m.: Clinton strategist Mark Penn, asked about the significance of this endorsement, told reporters on a conference call: “Perhaps the time when he could have been most effective is long since past.”