Via Ben Smith of the Politico:
Two labor sources tell Politico that the giant Service Employees International Union, which has been neutral through the primary, is on the verge of throwing its support to Sen. Barack Obama.
"It's done," said one person close to the union.
SEIU spokeswoman Stephanie Mueller confirmed that union leaders are set to discuss a potential endorsement today.
"Our board is going to be talking this evening," she said. "This will be a topic of their conversation."
I wonder if the SEIU's endorsement has anything to do with Obama's recent harangues against globalization, in which he had the temerity to state the sub-prime mortgage crisis emanated from and which rightly led Mike Boyer of Foreign Policy's Passport blog to slap him down.
This is the same guy who keeps promising to heal America's relationship with the world, right? Maybe it's just me, but forcing protectionist agreements down our trading partners' throats doesn't sound like such a good start. Neither does blaming them for America's subprime fiasco, a home-grown crisis fueled by Alan Greenspan and the Fed, which now threatens to wreak havoc on many of the globe's biggest economies.
