Mini-American to Endorse Obama

Looks like Barry O has snagged the key diminutive socialist endorsement. The media will make a big deal of it since he's another Clinton cabinet member to jump ship, following Bill Richardson.

Robert Reich, a former labor secretary, today will become the latest ex-Clintonite to formally endorse Barack Obama instead.

New York magazine reports online today that Reich, who has praised Obama over the course of the campaign and who has criticized some of the tactics of Hillary and Bill Clinton, made a final decision after seeing Clinton's TV ad hitting Obama for saying that economically strapped small-town voters are "bitter" and "cling to guns or religion."

Reich, who was born in Scranton, Pa., said he was "appalled" by the ad, in which Pennsylvanians say that they were insulted and upset by the remarks, which Obama made during a private fund-raiser in San Francisco.

"I thought it represented the nadir of mean-spirited, negative politics," he told the magazine. Reich is to make the endorsement official this afternoon on his blog, where his most recent post, on Sunday, defended Obama's remarks, saying that he told the truth.

I didn't even know the little guy had a blog.