Ronald Reagan's Chief of Staff Endorses Obama (Yes, You Read That Correctly)

Maybe some of you don't know this, but the chief of staff to the president is, in some ways, a more powerful figure than the president himself. The chief of staff has control over what the president knows and who he sees. Some of the highest members of the cabinet can muscle their way in to to see the president, but that's about it. I suppose the intelligence briefer can tell the president whatever they want. But the chief of staff exerts a tremendous amount of power. At no time was that more true than in the last year of President Reagan's second term, when Reagan was truly suffering with the early symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease. It's no exaggeration to say that Ken Duberstein was once (1988-89) one of the most powerful men on Earth. So, it's significant that he came out today and endorsed Barack Obama.

Duberstein flat-out does not believe that Sarah Palin has the capability or that John McCain has the judgment to be president of the United States. And he's concerned enough about that to endorse a candidate that has very little in common ideologically with the president that Duberstein served.