John Heilemann in New York Magazine, reports that today at 1pm, former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration and 40-year long friend of both Bill and Hillary Clinton, will endorse Barack Obama for president on his blog. Heilemann’s column provides a sneak peek into Reich’s motivation, quoting Reich at length:

“I saw the ads” — the negative man-on-street commercials that the Clinton campaign put up in Pennsylvania in the wake of Obama’s bitter/cling comments a week ago — “and I was appalled, frankly. I thought it represented the nadir of mean-spirited, negative politics. Continue reading →