Key Endorsements for Barack Obama

With the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary on the doorstep, Illinois US Senator Barack Obama has picked up two key and respected endorsements for his presidential campaign. Late last week, former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, now a professor at Stanford, endorsed Obama over Clinton despite his long friendship and service with Bill Clinton. This endorsement at this point was somewhat surprising, but Reich joins Bill Richardson, another former Bill Clinton cabinet officer, in breaking from the Clinton camp. Monday saw another endorsement with noted social commentator and observer as well as honored and recognized filmmaker Michael Moore giving his endorsement to the Illinois junior senator. Moore has a progressive and extensive vision on how to address the widescale problems nationally, and he believes Obama is the best candidate to tackle the long term and ongoing malaise and demise of the United States. Expect additional and noteworthy endorsements of Obama in the coming weeks, including Al Gore, Madeline Albright, and Jimmy Carter.

Obama also picked a virtual clean sweep of all endorsements by newspapers across Pennsylvania in the days leading up to the primary, capped off by Sunday's endorsement by the Philadelphia Inquirer.

http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2008/04/obama-for-president.html

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?=225

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Barack_Obama_presidential_campaign_endorsements

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080421/cm_thenation/1313364

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_United_States_presidential_primaries%2C_2008

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