New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson shot back at Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign after one of her allies called him a “Judas” on Good Friday.
“You know, that’s typical of many of the people around Sen. Clinton,” Richardson, who dropped out of the Democratic race in January, said in response to Clinton pit bull James Carville’s statement that Richardson was a traitor for backing Barack Obama. “They think they have a sense of entitlement to the presidency.”
Both Democratic candidates took a rare break on Easter Sunday. Still, Obama will take to the airwaves on Philadelphia radio station WPHT today with a prerecorded interview. In an excerpt sent out by the station, Obama frets that people are getting the wrong idea about the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his Chicago church.
“This is not a crackpot church,” Obama said, citing Wright’s community work.
Wright’s replacement, the Rev. Otis Moss III, used the opportunity of his Easter sermon yesterday to lash out at the scrutiny his retiring predecessor has received.
Fox News reported yesterday that Moss called the negative media attention focused on Wright “a public lynching,” and he made clear that he thought the church owed no apologies.
“If I was Ice Cube, I’d say it a little differently: ‘You picked the wrong folk to mess with,’ ” Moss said.