Posts tagged ‘Bill-Richardson’

A U.S. President of Mexican Descent? Never…

Posted January 15th, 2008
by Ilan Stavans

Bill Richardson is out. Will anyone ever remember him?
Only three of the presidential candidates for the Democratic Party primaries seem lively and provocative: Barak Obama, Hilary Clinton, and John Edwards. The intense, treacherous competition between Obama and Clinton is inspiring, not only because of their high intellectual caliber (one went to Wellesley as an [...]

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Richardson Ends Historic Bid for President

Posted January 10th, 2008
by Lisa Pierce

This afternoon, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, the first Hispanic to seek the Democratic nomination for president, announced that he was ending his campaign. Gov. Richardson came in fourth in the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary among a crowded field dominated by Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards.
Richardson, whose mother is [...]

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