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Friday, April 18, 2008

Robert Reich Endorses Obama

Today, former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich endorsed Barack Obama. Here's Reich, in his own words as to why he decided to endorse:

We have three terrible traditions that we’ve developed in American campaigns. One is outright meanness and negativity. The second is taking out of context something your opponent said, maybe inartfully, and blowing it up into something your opponent doesn’t possibly believe and doesn’t possibly represent. And third is a kind of tradition of distraction, of getting off the big subject with sideshows that have nothing to do with what matters. And these three aspects of the old politics I’ve seen growing in Hillary’s campaign.

And I've come to the point, after seeing those ads, where I can't in good conscience not say out loud what I believe about who should be president. Those ads are nothing but Republicanism. They're lending legitimacy to a Republican message that's wrong to begin with, and they harken back to the past 20 years of demagoguery on guns and religion. It's old politics at its worst — and old Republican politics, not even old Democratic politics. It's just so deeply cynical.

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Posted by Metavirus at 4/18/2008 12:28:00 PM  

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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

The endorsements are coming fast and furious now. I was just going to alert you to Robert Reich but you beat me to it. Then I found these:

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/nunn_boren_endorse_obama.html

The dam is breaking?

April 18, 2008 at 12:39 PM  

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