Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Obama is getting Clinton's top folks

At least four former advisors to Pres. Bill Clinton have chosen to endorse Senator Barack Obama-- not Clinton-- in the upcoming election. They are Federico Pena, a former mayor of Denver who also served as Energy Secretary in the Clinton administration; Greg Craig, Bill Clinton's lawyer, defending him on TV against impeachment charges; Susan Rice, a protégée of Madeleine Albright, the 42nd president's secretary of State; and Anthony Lake, Clinton's personal foreign-policy consigliere, his first-term national-security adviser.

From the New York Times:
“I have come to conclude that Barack Obama has the depth of judgment that our country needs to usher in a new era of global leadership,” Mr. Pena told reporters this afternoon on a conference call arranged by the Obama campaign. He added, “For me, judgment and wisdom are far more important than experience. But frankly, I like the experience that Senator Obama has.”

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