Bill Richardson Endorses Barack Obama

At … umm … 3:08 EDT am. Seriously.

Richardson’s just hilarious. I’m going to assume he’s an insomniac like me. Or maybe Obama wanted to prove he actually could answer a call at 3 in the morning.

To note, this is after the Clintons - both of them - worked him hard for the endorsement for a long time, even sending Bill out to watch the Super Bowl with him. And it’s rumored Madeline Albright made some sort of demand on Richardson that got him angry. But who knows.

The bottom line is Obama gets another superdelegate and voice to call for the Wright controversy to stop being the top story. The bad news for Obama is that Richardson is likely to make some sort of gaffe in doing so.