{"id":3093,"date":"2008-04-18T15:42:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T20:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2008-04-18T15:43:27","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T20:43:27","slug":"former-labor-secretary-reich-endorses-obama-over-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3093","title":{"rendered":"Former Labor Secretary Reich endorses Obama over Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hivLgTY7zTpYcJq-7_sZd8SoX9bwD904EI9G0\"><strong>18 April 2008<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Former Clinton Cabinet member Robert Reich has decided to endorse Barack Obama \u2014 and not Hillary Rodham Clinton \u2014 in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post Friday, the former labor secretary said that &#8220;although Hillary Clinton has offered solid and sensible policy proposals, Obama&#8217;s strike me as even more so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reich says the Illinois senator&#8217;s plans for reforming Social Security and health care have a better chance of succeeding, and his approach to the nation&#8217;s housing crisis and financial market failures &#8220;are sounder than hers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reich is a longtime friend of the Clintons.<\/p>\n<p>Obama also was endorsed Friday by former Sens. Sam Nunn of Georgia and David Boren of Oklahoma.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/obama-for-president.html\">Reich&#8217;s blog post\/endorsement<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 April 2008 BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Former Clinton Cabinet member Robert Reich has decided to endorse Barack Obama \u2014 and not Hillary Rodham Clinton \u2014 in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. In a blog post Friday, the former &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3093\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-NT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}