I am I Don Quixote the Lord of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, sporting his recently grown van Dyke beard galloped gallantly off his ranch last week to rescue Democratic Presidential Candidate, Barack Obama from what might have been and yet may be the end of Obama’s chances to secure the party’s nomination with his endorsement

And they say chivalry is dead.

Well chivalry may not be dead, but loyalty is. At least it is something the Lord of New Mexico knows nothing about. Just ask Ms. Hillary Clinton, the other candidate vying for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, longtime friend of Bill Richardson, and wife of former President Bill Clinton, the man who just happened to have appointed the not so Lordly Richardson U.S Ambassador to the United Nations and later U.S. Secretary of Energy virtually giving Richardson his international career.

But none of that meant a-Hill-ary-of-Mexican–beans to Richardson. In fact, Richardson showed himself to be the truly contemptible person he apparently is as he laughed off publicly the private “heated” exchange he had with Ms. Hillary when he called to inform her of his decision to endorse Obama. What could be lower than that? It was comparable to the kind of guy who kisses Dulcinea and tells.

Hey, but what’s a little disloyalty among friends when it comes to ones own political future  - “my destiny calls and I go” - or maybe ones personal past? Richardson, the only Hispanic Governor of a State said it was Obama’s speech on race that clinched the deal for him. Like Obama, Richardson is of mixed-parentage. Richardson’s mother was Mexican, his father was a non-Hispanic banker from Boston, and Richardson was raised in Mexico before being sent to the States to be educated.

 “[I] also felt a kinship with him because we both had one foreign-born parent,” Richardson said in his endorsement. “We both lived abroad as children. In part because of these experiences, Barack and I share a deep sense of our nation’s special responsibilities in the world.”

Was Richardson talking about sharing a mutual sense of injustice?

If so, then why is Richardson standing with the candidate who has done all he can to disenfranchise thousands of Americans and many Latinos in Florida in order to secure his nomination? And why is Richardson suggesting that Clinton step aside in the interest of party unity before all the states have weighed in on the nomination?

"I just feel the time has come to come together behind a candidate," Richardson said on Fox News Sunday.

Here’s another gem from the endorser I’d rather not have if I were Barack Obama. "I am very loyal to the Clintons," Richardson said. LOL!

Richardson has been emphatic that superdelegates (he is one) and delegates are beholden to the voters they represent and should vote accordingly if this contest goes to convention.

But the morally bankrupt Richardson has now gone against the voters of his own state where Hillary won the primary when he endorsed Obama. When Chris Wallace asked him about this, Richardson tried to weasel out of the trap. But he couldn’t.

Ed Rendell, Governor of Pennsylvania and Clinton supporter also on the panel answered for Governor Richardson. He said that the Obama campaign is inconsistent with how it wants superdelegates to line up. The Obama campaign says superdelegates' votes should reflect the will of the people, Rendell said, but only when it's convenient.

"[W]e have Senator [Ted] Kennedy and Senator [John] Kerry saying they're going to vote for Obama even though Senator Clinton won by 13 points in Massachusetts," Rendell said. "If we follow the Obama line, Bill Richardson should be for Senator Clinton."

Rendell took the conversation a step further when he questioned Richardson about questions about Obama’s electability against McCain in the general election.

Rendell cited statewide polling from automated pollsters Rasmussen and SurveyUSA that shows Obama trailing McCain in New Jersey, Ohio, Florida and Missouri — and only running even in Massachusetts.

“Our job is to nominate the candidate with the best chance to win,” said Rendell. “Bill, does it bother you that Sen. Obama is behind in New Jersey and even in Massachusetts?” Rendell asked Richardson.

The contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has been like no other in recent years. Hillary Clinton, the first woman to be a viable candidate for the highest office in the land is smart, seasoned, and a fighter. The pseudo-quixotic Obama stepped onto the American political stage and promised to bring a principled change to Washington. But it seems that the more we get to know him and the people he surrounds himself with the more we discover, painfully, that what Obama is really offering is an impossible dream.