Former Clinton Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, has endorsed Barack Obama, becoming another former high level Clinton administration official to say a definitive "no" to Hillary Clinton's ruthless ambitions. I agree with his reasoning and assessment of what Hillary's campaign has become. It is disgusting and under no circumstances can the country afford a Clinton restoration. We need a president with some level of integrity and Hillary fails that test badly. Her vile nastiness and caving in to the worse type of GOP tactics will be her own undoing. Here are highlights of Reich's comments from New York Magazine:I saw the ads" — the negative man-on-street commercials that the Clinton campaign put up in Pennsylvania in the wake of Obama's bitter/cling comments a week ago — "and I was appalled, frankly. I thought it represented the nadir of mean-spirited, negative politics. And also of the politics of distraction, of gotcha politics. It's the worst of all worlds. 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.
*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 twenty 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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