Clinton-Obama Détente - From Top Rival to Top Aide
The thaw in the resentful relationship between the most powerful woman in the Democratic Party and her younger male rival began at the party’s convention this summer, when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton gave such a passionate speech supporting Senator Barack Obama that his top aides leapt out of their chairs backstage to give her a standing ovation as she swept past.
Mr. Obama, who was in the first steps of what would become a strategic ...
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I at one point would have been happy with either of them as president, but when she found herself on the low end of the teeter totter, she came off like a neo-con. It was political advice that should have worked except that Obama was too good a candidate. Her acceptance of that bodes well for her role on the nation's stage.