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NEW YORK Bill Richardson has made his decision. The New Mexico governor and former presidential candidate will endorse Barack Obama in Portland, Ore., says Andrew Malcolm at the L.A. Times’ Top of the Ticket. Richardson, who was heavily courted by both candidates, may still be considering a vice presidential bid.
Geraldine Ferraro, a former Clinton adviser who left the campaign after insinuating Obama’s success was due to his race, repudiated the Illinois senator’s comparison of her to his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright in Tuesday’s speech, says Alec MacGillis at washingtonpost.com’s The Trail. Ferraro told the Daily Breeze in Torrence, Calif., that while Obama made a good speech, he didn’t condemn Wright enough, and surmised they did so because, “They’re looking at their base. Their base is African Americans. They’re looking at that and they’re trying to walk a very thin line. They don’t want to offend the African Americans, and this is the way he did it.”
Rev. Wright showed up with another person on the campaign trail. Pictures of the controversial pastor and Bill Clinton surfaced, courtesy of the Obama camp, says John McCormick at the Chicago Tribune’s The Swamp. The two men appear with other clerics at an annual prayer breakfast in 1998.
Two State Department employees were fired, and another reprimanded for improperly accessing Obama’s passport file three times since January, says Helene Cooper at The New York Times’ The Caucus. This isn’t the first time a similar breach of security occurred about a presidential candidate. In 1992, State Department officials accessed information about Bill Clinton during rumors that he tried to renounce his citizenship to dodge the draft.
The numbers are out about how much the candidates spent on their campaigns in February. The big news: Clinton and Obama together spent more in February than John McCain has in his entire yearlong campaign, says Mark Memmott at USA Today’s On Politics. Clinton spent about $1 million a day and Obama spent close to $1.5 million a day.

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