Posted on 04/18/2008 2:55:37 PM PDT by The_Republican
BOSTON - Former Clinton Cabinet member Robert Reich on Friday endorsed Barack Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Two other Democratic elder statesmen, former Sens. Sam Nunn of Georgia and David Boren of Oklahoma, also said they were supporting the Illinois senator.
Reich, who served as Labor secretary under Bill Clinton, said in a blog post that "although Hillary Clinton has offered solid and sensible policy proposals, Obama's strike me as even more so."
Reich also said Obama's plans for reforming Social Security and health care have a better chance of succeeding, and his approach to the nation's housing crisis and financial market failures are sounder than the New York senator's.
Reich is a longtime friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton. He ran for governor in Massachusetts in 2002 and now is a professor at the University of California-Berkeley.
A number of other former Clinton cabinet members have endorsed Obama. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who was U.N. ambassador and energy secretary under Clinton, endorsed former rival Obama in March despite heavy wooing by the former president. Former Denver Mayor Federico Pena, who headed the transportation and energy departments under Clinton, became a co-chair of Obama's campaign last September. Former Clinton Commerce secretaries Norman Mineta and William Daley also have endorsed Obama.
Nunn and Boren will serve as advisers to Obama's National Security Foreign Policy Team.
Nunn served as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee from 1987-95, while Boren was the longest-serving chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Both fall into the moderate-conservative end of the Democratic party's ideological spectrum and gave Bill Clinton trouble during his presidency, trying to tug him to the right on issues while most congressional Democrats were leaning to the left.
Nunn, who recently flirted with his own possible White House bid, said Obama has "a rare ability to restore America's credibility and moral authority and to get others to join us in tackling serious global problems."
Boren, who recently played host to a forum on electoral alternatives, including third-party runs, said: "Our most urgent task is to end the divisions in our country, to stop the political bickering, and to unite our talents and efforts. Americans of all persuasions are pleading with our political leaders to bring us together. I believe Senator Obama is sincerely committed to that effort."
Hilary will drop out before the convention. The primary was over after she lost Texas.
Wasn't that Lloyd Benson of Texas?
The Clintons are melting.
Time to kick operation chaos into overdrive.
Question to all: now that denver has said they will not box protesters in, does this mean hillary’s minions (she has minions?) will redo 1968?
LOL, I should put his face on one of those figures. Good call.
If she only wins by single digits in PA, she should get out. She might stay in until after she gets stomped in NC, but the reality is that she lost the nomination some time ago.
I don’t see her ever dropping out.
I still think she will be POTUS. Watch.
I would have thought Hillary would have went bonkers by now with all the endorsements and MSM going for Obama
Wonder if they have her on anything
Obama's nomination will lock blacks into the Dem party forever and Hispanics will flock to the cause as well. Ol man McCain is going to have a difficult ride ahead trying to raise money and replace the loss of many of his base with moderates and independents. God help those conservatives further down the ticket who must run with and against him.
I love it when Rush says it too. Forgot to mention that.
I’m watching. The Dems—Pelosi, Reid, and the superdelegates—will give her an offer she can’t refuse. The Dem Party will not commit political suicide by stealing the nomination from the people’s choice. And they sure as hell will not wait for the convention to have a nominee.
I agree with you on general principle. Klintons are not familiar with concept of losing.
I mean Klintons would drag in Larry Sinclair if they have to. She would hurt him so bad that Party Elders would HAVE TO re-evaluate what to do.
I used to mock Freepers who expressed that THIRD CANDIDATE may be brought in. Now I think if Hillary takes the Larry Sinclair route, then Dems may have NO other choice.
If she wins by single digits, she will not get out. If she loses, she will not get out. Hillary doesn’t give a darn about the party —— it is all about her.
I used to believe that Sam Nunn used to be a “conservative” Democrat senator.
Ah thank you. The older I get the more crowded my memory. You are correct, thank you.
IOW the people who are have ZERO CHANCE of ever getting a job in a hillary administration.
Helps stem the hemorrhaging of Obama’s “clean, articulate, young man” image, from the J. Wright, B. Ayers, wounds too.
Sam Nunn and David Boren were considered as above the far left nut-case brigade that is running the Dem Party these days.
Reich was a longtime friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Fixed it.
Yeah! If Bill Richardson is Judas according to Carville, I wonder what that makes Reisch.
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