Another Clinton Cabinet-er Goes 'O'

From Political Wire

Reich Will Back Obama

The fact that former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama for president isn't really a surprise, but that doesn't make John Heileman's article about it in New York magazine any less interesting.

Reich says it was the negativity in Clinton's campaign that are forcing him to abandon his "friend of 40 years."

Said Reich: "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."

Reich's endorsement will take place on his blog at 1 p.m. ET.