Former Clinton Cabinet Official Reich Urges No On Hillary Clinton For Obama Vice President (UPDATED)

Published: June 6, 2008, 8:43 pm

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Former Clinton administration Secretary of Labor — and current blogger — Robert Reich has a bit of advice for Democratic presumptive nominee Senator Barack Obama: don’t pick Hillary Clinton to be your Vice President. Reich points out that just when the American public should be focused on Obama, it’s once again a case of the news focus being on Hillary Clinton — and he warns that this won’t change if she’s selected to be Obama’s Veep. She has clearly signaled her desire to [be on the ticket], and her surrogates have suggested that for Obama to do otherwise risks alienating her legions of supporters. Put to one side whether this is correct; we have no way of knowing. The more significant reality is this: at the very time when Obama should finally be free to make make his case to the American public for why he should be president, he is engaged in another diversionary and distracting fight with her for the public’s

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