Jul

18

Bill Clinton willing to campaign for Barack Obama

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Former president Bill Clinton has said he was willing to campaign for White House hopeful. Barack Obama, who defeated his wife Hillary in a sometimes bitter Democratic nomination race.

Asked by reporters if he would campaign for Obama, who aims to become America’s first black president, Clinton said: “Whenever he asks.”

He said, “He’s busier than I am on politics anyway,”

Clinton said that he had a “good talk” with Obama following the marathon nomination battle, during which the former two-term president jousted repeatedly with the Illinois senator’s campaign.

Clinton and Obama spoke by telephone on June 30 in an effort to mend fences, three days after Hillary Clinton and the presumptive Democratic nominee appeared publicly for the first time in a show of party unity.

The former president remains a hero to many grassroots Democrats, and could possibly help Obama in his quest to win over working class whites in key swing states that backed
Hillary Clinton in the primary race.

Senior Democrats have long feared that lingering rancor between Obama and Clinton supporters could provide an advantage to Republican White House hopeful Senator John McCain.



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