Kennedy Breaks The Ice Between Clinton And Obama

Kennedy Breaks The Ice Between Clinton And Obama

This time there was no "snub."

Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) returned to the Senate yesterday after Tuesday's mega-battle in 22 state contests left their nomination fight practically deadlocked. Clinton and Obama talked briefly and let out a pair of loud laughs during a close vote on a $158 billion economic stimulus plan pushed by Democrats, trying to set a different tone -- at least in public -- for a race that their closest advisers now say could last into the summer.

The person who broke the ice was Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), whose endorsement of Obama played a key role in an earlier awkward Clinton-Obama encounter in the Capitol. Yesterday, after Clinton won handily in Kennedy's home state, he approached her while she was talking to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), a prominent Clinton backer.

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