It looks like party consolidation time with Bill Clinton’s Labor Secretary Robert Reich endorsing Obama and old school national security giants David Boren and Sam Nunn joining Lee Hamilton to do the same. It’s never good to have your former cabinet members endorsing your opponent, but the bigger story is Boren and Nunn. The people of Pennsylvania will hardly notice their endorsements, but the superdelegates will be very impressed.
Personally, I have mixed feelings about Boren and Nunn’s involvement in Obama’s national security team. But my feelings don’t really matter. What matters is that the national security elite are lining up behind Obama, which not only signals their confidence in his abilities but sends a strong message that there will be a break with the Clintons’ historic control of the Democratic Party.
This is worse than a drip…drip…drip. It’s the sound of the door closing.
