And yes, my moniker is not very creative or designed to hide my identity or location. Yes, I do live in Austin.

And if you do make it out here, I am partial to Fonda San Miguel.

I’m considering treating all of politics as a bad joke in order to survive this endless election season.

Just when I have you pegged, I have to decide if you’re in Austin.

If so, I need to buy you a nice dinner the next time I’m at the Driscoll.

But seriously, I think in this case you’re right.

But then, judging politics from 4,000 miles away is a tricky business.

This is what makes it so hard for politicians to come across as ‘real’ people, and why they have to rely on a horde of handlers and speech writers.

I think you are a bit too dismisive of him MVG.

Because anyone who had spent time listening to him would have no doubt the comment was tongue in cheek.

There is nothing in Ed Morrissey’s post which suggests any different and it appears more like an attempt to make a member of the opposing party look dumb than to get at the truth. The quotation from Richardson at the end of his post does not mean he was not joking about the matter earlier and now responding in a more serious manner.

The real problem for Richardson is that the joke can be taken as making fun of the whole primary/caucus situation or making fun of Iowa’s desrie to be first. While he intended the first, there is risk that Iowans will see it as the second.

If he was serious, it means that he was pandering to the crowd, which will not help him with Democrats outside of Iowa. Furthermore, I personally would not vote for a politician who claims he knows what God’s will is.

I do think there’s a double standard between the way this would have played out if a GOP candidate had said it, but in this case when I apply a neutral standard I still come up with it being a joke- that’s just my take on it though.

For the benefit of those who didn’t realize what should have been obvious, a campaign spokesman has verified it was a joke.