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Back home, back gone

Bill Richardson is scheduled to return to New Mexico on Thursday from his North Korean tour, but he won't stay for long. Under the headline "Bill Richardson's last hurrah?" on Tuesday, Tony Castro of the Los Angeles Daily News dropped the dime on the guv's next campaign foray: Los Angeles fund-raiser on Monday.

Castro's not so sure Richardson stands a shot: "With all the moved-up primaries that have made next Feb. 8 effectively a national primary, money and fund-raising have become all the more important - making it all the more difficult on back-of-the-race candidates like Richardson."

Anyway, he'll be at Lucy's El Adobe Cafe on Monday, just in case you're looking for a quickie Southwest flight and some politics with your chow.

The gold standard

The "2008 Central" blog painted a happier future for Richardson on Tuesday, based in part on his North Korean adventure. After praising him for obtaining the remains of six U.S. servicemen and apparently negotiating the return of nuclear inspectors (thanks in part to the release of $25 million caught in a bank dispute), the unnamed blogger writes:

"What does this do for Richardson? It should get him some notoriety in the press. It will also give him something concrete to stump on, and use as a direct comparison to the Bush administration. For people who would like the government to negotiate more, Richardson can hold himself as the gold standard in effective negotiations."

OK. Maybe. But does anyone but the Kates remember how long his "truce" in the Sudan lasted?

Another senseless poll

Yup. There's yet another Gallup Poll out that shows - gasp! - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama with strong numbers and everyone else kind of weak. The Kates mention it only because of this terrific insight from a reader's comment:

"Let's take a walk down memory lane with polling from April 2003 on the 2004 Democratic contenders. . . .

"Gee, looks like Lieberman is ahead. Might as well put him down as the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee!"

Heh heh heh.