Governor Bill Richardson Resigns From Barack Obama’s Cabinet

Barack Obama "palling around" with the corrupt governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson

The controversy around president-elect Obama and his cabinet just keeps growing and growing. I first wrote about New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s, who was to be Barack Obama’s commerce secretary, legal problems here.

 It seems as though political donors to Governor Richardson received rather handsome fees investment in Governor Richardson. In other words Governor Richardson was involved in pay to play politics much the same as Rod Blagojevich.

 Today Governor Richardson withdrew his nomination for commerce secretary for president-elect Obama in what has to be an embarrassment to the president-elect.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Sunday announced that he was withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Barack Obama’s commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation into how some of his political donors won a lucrative state contract.

  Governor Richardson is trying to say that he is doing this because the economy is so bad that he doesn’t want to delay any action on such an important post.

I have concluded that the ongoing investigation also would have forced an untenable delay in the confirmation process,” Richardson said. “Given the gravity of the economic situation the nation is facing, I could not in good conscience ask the president-elect and his administration to delay for one day the important work that needs to be done

 Isn’t that nice of him? He is doing it for the good of the country in bad economic times. President-elect Obama claims that this shows that Richardson is putting the country ahead of his own political aspirations.

It is a measure of his willingness to put the nation first that he has removed himself as a candidate for the Cabinet to avoid any delay in filling this important economic post at this critical time

 What a bunch of bullshit. He is not putting country first by resigning a post from the Obama cabinet before he is indicted in a pay to play scheme, if he was thinking about country first he never would have been involved in this scheme in the first place. The facts are that a major donor to Bill Richardson was rewarded with a $1 million state contract. Coincidence? I think not. Just another shady association of Barack Obama’s.

 President-elect Obama has had shady associations for many, many years. Some of us have tried to raise awareness about these associations only to be told that none of them mattered and to be branded as racists. But the truth is that who a person associates with does matter. You can judge a person by whom he palls around with, it is appropriate to question a person with questionable ties. And now we are finding out why.

 Bill Richardson’s withdrawal is a black eye on Obama’s cabinet as well as his judgement. Judgement that in my opinion is suspect at best when it comes to his friends.

 President Obama will come into power amidst more controversy and with more political baggage than any president in history, including the whole was-he-elected/selected-controversy of George W Bush.