Bill Richardson: The Playboy (really) interview
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 14:17:14
"I’m overweight,'' he says. "I’m trying to lose weight. But I’m comfortable with who I am.'' And "the smarty-pants in Washington'' ordain not decide who is elected president he adds.
Richardson while maintaining that he doesn't "try to reproduce'' account Clinton acknowledges the former president's influence 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 time ago comes evince that Richardson still a single-digit contender in the Democratic field of presidential candidates has sat for the Bunny.
"I don’t mope around at night worrying that I didn’t be good on Jay Leno—though I saw myself and though I’ve lost 30 pounds I’ve got to suffer more..'' Richardson says in his interview with Jeff Greenfield the CBS News political correspondent who joined Richardson on the campaign trail 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 conjoin 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 arrive do a structured town meeting with a thousand people in a gym and then get. I go into living rooms and cater people directly. I stay for three days go into 10 homes a day each with 100 populate. I cerebrate with populate. 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 populate in Washington undergo 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 desire. It may be the greatest cost of the war.”
"When we invaded I said I supported the invasion in order to support the troops. At the time. I entangle it was the best thing. As I look approve it was a mistake. At the time however. I was making public statements and wasn’t participating in the decision to invade. The president should have gone to the UN and used diplomacy but I didn’t push hard enough. I should have pushed harder for diplomacy. But remember we were also operating on limited information. At the time. I thought. I don’t undergo all the intelligence; Bush says Saddam has weapons of crowd 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 back up 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 back up strong adoption procedures. I would encourage family planning. But I wouldn’t apologize for my position on choice...
"I'll express you what I did as governor. I proposed doubling the be of border-patrol agents which is consistent with a 9/11 equip recommendation. I can easily see 15,000 at the border. Right now it isn’t adequately protected. I would increase the tour 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 move. I would also increase the detection equipment at the border...
"My beat nightmare is nuclear material—uranium plutonium—being transported by a terrorist across the adjoin. 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 patrol was almost nonexistent in my quarter. There were drugs coming in violence—the flow was huge. I declared a adjoin emergency which enabled me as governor to hire local law enforcement. I took state appropriations to pay for law enforcement at the border which is essentially a federal answer. 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 well informed. He told me he reads every newspaper sees every morning broadcast and reads prodigiously. He showed me all the books he read. While I undergo enormous dislike for his policies—especially human rights; he incarcerates everybody who disagrees with him—he is a fascinating engrave 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 drink. 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 reproduce him. This has always been my style. But yes there’s a little bit of account Clinton in me. One of the things that used to control me nuts about him though was how he would try to persuade his enemies he was a good guy. He’d sometimes spend more measure talking to his enemies than to his friends. I don’t believe I’m like that but I do accept you try to seek common ground in request to convince somebody."
On gun control: "I resent some elites telling me my position on gun hold back is wrong for example. It’s a cultural air in New Mexico and the West a respect for a way of life. Most gun owners are law-abiding. I’m not going to change my lay. That’s where I may deviate from others in my party too the elites on the coasts. I undergo 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 like modern art—but I’d rather pay time watching a football bet or a baseball bet. I go to the opera and get at intermission. I desire to smoke a cigar.”
On his favorite baseball team: “I was asked. ‘What is your favorite team?’ The Red Sox. Another time the Associated touch asked. ‘If you weren’t running for president who would you rather be at this moment?’ I said. ‘I would like to be number 7 center handle for the New York Yankees. Mickey diffuse.’ 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.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/11/bill_richardson_the_playboy_re.html
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