Obama Called Clintons This Week

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., -- heading into the convention next week and coming off of choosing his Vice President --had a phone conversation with both Bill and Hillary Clinton this week.

The presumptive democratic nominee spoke at length with President Clinton on Thursday afternoon.

"It was a broad, wide ranging conversation about what's going on in the country," Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki says, insisting that he and the former president speak often.

Read the whole story here.

Comments

[abby4ever]

When is O going to realize that nothing he can say or do will ever get these two people to genuinely support him? I wish he'd just shun them, their reign is over! And he is unwise to trust them with even a phone call.

[riverhouse]

Let's get this soap opera over and get on with winning the presidency.

[Sloane7]

Hillary Clinton - Universal Healthcare Czar!

[mypov123]

I don't think she'd take a position in an Obama administration other than VP.

[WFV]

How terribly exciting. What's next? A chronicle of hair appointments and suit shopping for their convention speeches?

Can't wait for the swan song, er, catharsis next week, so this will be over.

[abby4ever]

Get ready for the film about H's life that is going to shown right before she gives her speech, another concession she got.

[abby4ever]

And the film she gets to show about her life, don't forget that, THAT ought to REALLY get her supporters going. From the Financial Times of London:

"In addition to these three concessions, Mrs Clinton negotiated the right to show a short film about her life that will air prior to her speech. Showing a biopic is a privilege normally reserved for nominees or special circumstances " such as the appreciation today that will be accorded to Ted Kennedy, the senator for Massachusetts, who was recently diagnosed with a brain tumour."

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/198a430a-71e6-11dd-a44a-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1

[LateeLady]

I am sure the PUMAs that are determined to pull negativity out of anything Obama will not acknowledge his consultation such as cited in this article. While I am glad that he is discussing a wide array of topics with them, particularly, I'd imagine, the upcoming convention, I do not feel it necessary for him to seek their advice or counsel on his vision of his campaign as some have suggested. I am excited to work to put them in office and head towards the change in policy and direction that this country needs.