2. Former Bill Clinton Aides Backing Obama
A number of officials and advisers who served in Bill Clinton’s presidential administration are not backing his wife Hillary’s White House bid and are instead throwing their support behind her Democratic rival Barack Obama.
They include former energy and transportation secretary Federico Pena, former commerce secretary William Daley, foreign policy advisers Anthony Lake and Susan Rice, former Navy secretary Richard Danzig, women’s advocate Betsy Myers, and Deval Patrick, who was assistant attorney general for civil rights.
In interviews with the Boston Globe, several former
support Obama said they view the Illinois senator as the best hope for the party, and cite his youth as a plus — Obama is 46, while Hillary just turned 60.
Some also said they fear Hillary is too divisive to defeat a Republican opponent or govern effectively.
“One of the chief things that would energize a very dispirited Republican Party is Hillary Clinton on the ticket,” Obama supporter Eric Holder, who was second in command at Bill Clinton’s Justice Department in the late 1990s, told the Globe.
“My feelings of loyalty are outweighed by my concern about the world my kids are going to live in.”
Hillary does enjoy the backing of many officials and advisers from her husband’s political machine, and her own loyal staff from the 1990s.
But Greg Craig, who defended Bill Clinton against impeachment in the Monica Lewinsky scandal and now advises Obama, told the Globe his candidate is “a thoughtful, youthful new voice with a new vision for finding common ground, rather than finding a reason for conflict and difference. I think he represents the future and everybody else in this election is more of the same of the past.”
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