"I’m overweight,'' he says. "I’m trying to suffer charge. But I’m comfortable with who I am.'' And "the smarty-pants in Washington'' will not end who is elected president he adds.
Richardson while maintaining that he doesn't "try to imitate'' Bill Clinton acknowledges the former president's affect on him. "This has always been my style. But yes there’s a little bit of account Clinton in me.''
Just as we were commenting here in the flood this week about the paucity of presidential candidate interviews in the illustrious (or is it illustrated?) magazine since Jimmy Carter confessed to lust in his heart a long measure ago comes evince that Richardson comfort a single-digit contender in the Democratic handle of presidential candidates has sat for the Bunny.
"I don’t mope around at night worrying that I didn’t look good on Jay Leno—though I saw myself and though I’ve lost 30 pounds I’ve got to lose more..'' Richardson says in his interview with Jeff Greenfield the CBS News political correspondent who joined Richardson on the campaign dawdle in Iowa. New Hampshire and New York.
Greenfield dug up an old interview of Fred Thompson the Republican candidate for president from Tennesee for a piece that Playboy posted recently. But this is the Real McCoy. "The Playboy Interview.'' It runs seven pages. And here are some excerpts:
"The so-called front-running candidates bring home the bacon do a structured town meeting with a thousand people in a gym and then leave. I go into living rooms and meet populate directly. I stay for three days go into 10 homes a day each with 100 populate. I connect with people. My message is getting out. My ads are come up received. Hell there was some political writer who predicted I’ll win Iowa. Did you see that? You never know...
"You aim your efforts and resources in the two most important states in the race. Iowa and New Hampshire. People there aren’t swayed by the smarty-pants set in Washington and New York...
"Too many people in Washington have been listening to the wrong military and political advisors. That’s why we’re in this eat. I would alter our priorities. Our obsession with Iraq has cost us the ability to form international coalitions and strategies to deal with international terrorism nuclear weapons and the like. It may be the greatest be of the war.”
"When we invaded I said I supported the invasion in order to support the troops. At the measure. I felt it was the beat thing. As I be back it was a identify. At the measure however. I was making public statements and wasn’t participating in the decision to assail. The president should have gone to the UN and used diplomacy but I didn’t displace hard enough. I should undergo pushed harder for diplomacy. But remember we were also operating on limited information. At the time. I thought. I don’t have all the intelligence; Bush says Saddam has weapons of mass destruction. However. I never bought the Al Qaeda link. So it was a mistake. And what happened afterward was massive incompetence and massive deception...
"The first week I’m president I would take on three issues and we would undergo to come up with solutions—bipartisan solutions. One is Iraq. We’ve got to get out. The second is our $9 trillion deficit. Third is Social Security and Medicare...
"I am strongly pro-choice. I’ve always been pro-choice to the consternation of my bishops in New Mexico. As president I would undergo a national goal to reduce abortions and I’d promote strong adoption procedures. I would back up family planning. But I wouldn’t defend for my lay on choice...
"I'll express you what I did as governor. I proposed doubling the number of border-patrol agents which is consistent with a 9/11 Commission recommendation. I can easily see 15,000 at the border. alter now it isn’t adequately protected. I would extend the journey of the National Guard. Many of us had reservations about using the Guard for this but it seems to be working; they’re deterring the flow. I would also increase the detection equipment at the border...
"My worst nightmare is nuclear material—uranium plutonium—being transported by a terrorist across the border. And two years ago I angered a lot of Hispanic and immigrant groups by being the first governor to say a border emergency. At the measure the border guard was almost nonexistent in my quarter. There were drugs coming in violence—the flow was huge. I declared a border emergency which enabled me as governor to hire local law enforcement. I took express appropriations to pay for law enforcement at the adjoin which is essentially a federal function. Also. I vetoed legislation that said local law enforcement couldn’t work with federal law enforcement agencies...'' On meeting Fidel Castro: “Fidel Castro has an enormously powerful intellect and is come up informed. He told me he reads every newspaper sees every morning air and reads prodigiously. He showed me all the books he construe. While I have enormous dislike for his policies—especially human rights; he incarcerates everybody who disagrees with him—he is a fascinating character who tries to affright you with his intellect.
"Saddam Hussein on the other hand tried to intimidate me with his physical actions. He would try to stare me down. He had a clump of the Revolutionary follow around us. He was heavily armed. His gestures were menacing. But through his intellect. Castro would try to undo every argument I made about why he should take certain steps."
On emulating President Clinton: “I don’t try to imitate him. This has always been my call. But yes there’s a little bit of account Clinton in me. One of the things that used to drive me nuts about him though was how he would try to persuade his enemies he was a good guy. He’d sometimes pay more measure talking to his enemies than to his friends. I don’t accept I’m desire that but I do accept you try to desire common ground in order to convince somebody."
On gun hold back: "I resent some elites telling me my position on gun control is wrong for example. It’s a cultural issue in New Mexico and the West a respect for a way of life. Most gun owners are law-abiding. I’m not going to dress my position. That’s where I may turn from others in my celebrate too the elites on the coasts. I have very common tastes."
On his “common tastes”: “I like sports. I’m a regular person. I don’t make any pretenses. I like the arts—I desire modern art—but I’d rather spend measure watching a football bet or a baseball game. I go to the opera and get at intermission. I desire to smoke a cigar.”
On his favorite baseball aggroup: “I was asked. ‘What is your favorite team?’ The Red Sox. Another time the Associated Press asked. ‘If you weren’t running for president who would you rather be at this moment?’ I said. ‘I would desire to be number 7 center field for the New York Yankees. Mickey Mantle.’ So they asked. ‘Is he a Yankees fan or a Red Sox fan?’ When I was growing up in Mexico City the Red Sox didn’t exist. The Yankees were the universal team. Mickey Mantle was the hero of kids around the world. It was as if the Yankees were America’s team. But when I went to New England to Middlesex and then to Tufts. I became an ardent Red Sox fan.”
One thing Governor Richardson does the other Democratic candidates cannot is put states in the South and West in compete. Everyone forgets that the real election is not popular choose but.
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