Bob McCarty Writes

Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama campaigned in Portland, Ore., today and received what many are calling an important endorsement from New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a Hispanic who served as Secretary of Energy under President Bill Clinton.

It came, according to an AFP report, as Obama grappled with a row over incendiary racial remarks by his former pastor that polls showed cost him support in his race against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.

In my opinion, the endorsement is only being deemed “important” because Clinton wanted it, too! In reality, Richardson remains a no-name politician who’s visibility barely extends beyond three small circles of influence he “owns” — in New Mexico, Old Mexico and Washington, D.C.