Holy Macaroni, Nunn Endorses Obama

Wow. Former Senators Sam Nunn (GA) and David Boren (OK) have endorsed Obama. This is big news. Until very recently, both men were on board to start a third party, helmed by Bloomberg, to "solve" the problems of the red state-blue state battles. I felt at the time that Obama was the only candidate that didn't try to exploit those battles and as such the Bloomberg-acrats were rendered moot. Well, this proves it.

I don't know much about Boren, but Nunn is very big news. He was the dean of the Democratic defense authority and a big ol' good ol' boy from Georgia. If he had only run in '88, he could've beaten George HW Bush for certain.

Ambinder, where I read this story, says that Boren: "Boren left the Senate in 1994 and is a former chairman of what used to be called the Senate Select Committee on intelligence. He also spent 16 years as governor of Oklahoma."

Both men will also join Obama's national security kitchen cabinet. And either one of them would make a great Secretary of Defense. This is great news.

Update: Back in January, when I listed possible VPs for Obama, I did bring up Nunn and Boren. I thought Nunn was sticking with his loony third party and that Boren's state (Oklahoma) had no swing qualities. Nunn would be a great VP if he wants it, but I reiterate my Sec-Def thing as well.