Sunday, January 04, 2009

Schadenfreude

I started this 6 months ago, on the wordpress blog. It's getting more and more fun to keep it up so, I am transferring it here
2008 back stabbers & villains meeting karma
1. Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson’s Star is Falling with a BIG THUD (Not on VP Shortlist, State Legislators FED UP with Him)
sourced here

and a new slap
New Mexico’s governor and former Clinton U.N. ambassador-cum-Energy secretary dearly wanted State. And Obama owed him big-time, both for his primary endorsement and for Richardson’s now-forgotten decision to swing his delegates to Obama during the Iowa caucuses.


final blow after getting Commerce
Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico confirmed in a statement released Sunday afternoon that he has withdrawn his name as the commerce secretary nominee, citing a pending “investigation of a company that has done business with New Mexico state government


2.JOHN KERRY
You know, the guy who didn’t cry in his tea cup for stolen elections, conceded his victory and asked the media not to count the Florida primaries because “they don’t count? That Kerry!

Royally snarked by AP

John Kerry says Republican John McCain doesn’t have the judgment to be president.

If that’s the case, then it’s probably a good thing McCain rejected overtures from Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, to form a bipartisan ticket and run with Kerry as his candidate for vice president.


and

For the record, Kerry is not among those being mentioned as possible running mates for McCain
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Getting a challenger in the primaries
“FOR THE FIRST time in 24 years, Senator John Kerry faces a Democratic primary challenge. For that, he blames Hillary Clinton.

Lau said that O’Reilly wouldn’t have made the ballot “were it not for John Kerry’s early endorsement” of Obama. O’Reilly said support from unhappy Clinton supporters “was not a huge factor, but it had some bearing.”

And a new slap for John

Kerry’s people say he never had any expectations of being named secretary of State but other Democrats say he made no secret of his Foggy Bottom aspirations. “He’s crushed,” said one Senate aide.

and now WaPo pours salt in that wound with a delicious headline

IT HURTS TO BE JOHN KERRY TODAY

The Massachusetts senator had once been considered the frontrunner to be Obama’s secretary of state. Then suddenly he wasn’t,