Robert Reich, who served as Labor Secretary under Bill Clinton but has become a critic of the Hillary Clinton campaign, is the latest to lay out the case why the Senator from New York does not belong beside Barack Obama on the ticket in November:
I have known and admired the Clintons for decades and I have no doubt that Hillary could do an excellent job as Vice President. But this current spectacle illustrates why he should not choose her. Hillary and Bill Clinton are masters at claiming the public limelight even at the expense of larger public purpose. Media attention puts her unflagging ambition center stage and his unbridled (although sometimes misdirected) charm on full display. Were Obama to make her his Vice President, she would turn the tables and make him her President, just as she has turned the tables this week and transformed his remarkable victory into her audacious dare.
Which is why I’m convinced that tonight’s “withdrawal” speech will be the about Hillary a lot more than it will be about Barack.
More over, as Joe Gandelman notes, one would think that Obama would take the advice of people who actually know the Clinton’s on something like this.
