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ABC anchor Charles Gibson (subscription required) announced that his five-minute profile of Bill Richardson was the first of a twelve-part series dubbed Who Is on each of the Presidential candidates: "How they have come to be who they are--their formative years, their parents, their families, a little bit about their backgrounds." So we were introduced to the Governor of New Mexico, son of a Nicaraguan, born in California, raised in Mexico City, educated in Boston. His father William, a banker "drove me, yes, that is a good word." If he were alive today "he would be telling me to lose weight, to give better speeches." Son Bill confessed to uprooting his wife Barbara: "One day I want to say--'All right, the next five years are yours. We do what you want'--except these next five years."
What a relief that Campaign 2008 was dignified with that extended feature--because the news from the trail was just ludicrous. CBS' in-house consultant Nicolle Wallace told Byron Pitts that the "best funded and best organized" Republicans, Mitt Romney and Rudolph Giuliani, "are starting to really knock heads." Pitts' evidence was the Romney Campaign's YouTube video of Giuliani making a habit of receiving cell-phone calls while making speeches. As Giuliani himself said: "If this is the biggest thing they are going to raise, they are in a lot of trouble." Equally laughable was the flap ABC's David Wright (subscription required) found on the Democratic side. Barack Obama used to wear a Stars-&-Stripes pin in his lapel…but no longer. Wright claimed that the candidate caused a "controversy" when he called the flag fashion statement "a substitute for true patriotism."
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