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September 08, 2008
Hey Hillary, leave the gun, take the canolies ~ Obama and Bill Clinton to Hold Summit
Obama and Bill Clinton to Hold Summit
Senator Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton plan to meet for lunch on Thursday at Mr. Clinton’s offices in Harlem, their first extended face-to-face encounter after more than a year of tense relations, aides said Sunday.
The current plan is for Mr. Obama and Mr. Clinton to have lunch at the Clinton Foundation headquarters on West 125th Street in Harlem with one close aide each. There have been discussions about the men possibly then doing a walking tour of the neighborhood, but that has not been settled.
Thursday is the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and Mr. Obama will be in New York for a memorial ceremony at Ground Zero that morning with his Republican presidential rival, Senator John McCain, an event that both candidates say is intended to be non-political.
When Mr. Clinton learned that Mr. Obama would be in New York on Thursday for two appearances, he invited him to lunch at the foundation offices, aides said.
The terms of the Clinton-Obama meeting have been negotiated warily for weeks through a veil of mutual suspicion. Mr. Clinton has felt for months that Mr. Obama has not paid him the proper respect as a former president and many close to Mr. Obama believe that Mr. Clinton dealt dismissively with him during the campaign.
The icebreaker may well have been Mr. Clinton’s effusive speech at the Democratic National Convention, in which he – for the first time – declared Mr. Obama fit to be president. During the long primary season, Mr. Clinton, speaking on behalf of his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, repeatedly questioned Mr. Obama’s experience and qualifications for the presidency.
In his convention speech, however, Mr. Clinton heaped praise on Mr. Obama, the new leader of the Democratic Party, and promised to do everything he could to get him elected. He acknowledged with a smile, however, that he would have preferred that Mrs. Clinton were preparing to accept the nomination.
Mr. Clinton and Mr. Obama have spoken several times on the telephone since Mr. Obama nailed down the nomination in early June, but aides described those conversations as generally businesslike, even at times frosty.
The two men spoke the Friday before the Democratic convention about Mr. Clinton’s speech and the campaign ahead, but there was no resolution of several issues, including the Obama campaign’s desire to see a copy of Mr. Clinton’s speech well in advance of its delivery the following Wednesday. Mr. Clinton did not share a draft of his speech until a couple hours of before taking to the podium in Denver.
Mr. Clinton has privately complained that Mr. Obama has courted major figures in the Democratic Party, including Senator Edward M. Kennedy, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, while making little effort to seek Mr. Clinton’s support or guidance.
But aides said that both men are now focused intently on the fall election and have put aside whatever resentments or rivalry they may feel.
The lunch will be private and it is not known whether Mr. Clinton and Mr. Obama will have any statement afterward. But Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain have agreed to suspend all negative advertising aimed at each other on Sept. 11 and it seemed unlikely that Mr. Obama and Mr. Clinton would use their meeting for overtly partisan purposes that day.
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Wild Thing's comment.........
The Clintons must be loving every minute of Obama crawling on his belly to them, kissing up for their support now.
What will be their price? Will Bill Clinton tell Obama to put some ice on it?
I think Bill Clinton will hate Obama with the heat of a thousand suns forever and ever. There is nothing Obama can do now to change that.
Posted by Wild Thing at September 8, 2008 03:48 AM
Comments
Clinton needs to cut and run-- !!He needs to distance himself from this moron Obama before he looks like the loser Obama would love to dis and where is the Clintons- common sense- ? They should keep away from Obama before they completely ruin their reputations- not that it would take much to do so-! Have the Clintons become so desperate for money- they can't stand up to the retard Obama- It is just sad and stupid!!
Posted by: Cheryl Zee at September 8, 2008 07:55 AM
Clinton is ten times more sly and politically savvy than Obama. Clinton will get something out of this meeing . I don't know what. He may be setting Obama up for a knife in the back. And I doubt they will be speaking Italian.
Sarah Palin, however, has changed things for the Democrats and the Clintons. If she becomes a successful VP and remains popular, she may become an insumountable barrier for a Hillary bid in 2012 or 2016.
I think Bill and Obama will come out of this meeting with a whole lot of public pretending of solidarity, but will still be political enemies.
Posted by: TomR at September 8, 2008 10:19 AM
I wonder how long Biden will be on the ticket after this meeting?
Posted by: BobF at September 8, 2008 01:25 PM
Its like Rudy said, 'I hope Biden has the Vice president thing in writing'.
We should have a poll, or an office pool to determine when Joe "hari-plug" gets thrown under the bus. For someone who is SO smart he sure picked a loser in Biden.
Posted by: Mark at September 8, 2008 03:55 PM
Cheryl, I agree, if it were me I would say look I am a Dwemocrat so I want my party to win.....but I will not be promoting your election you have to do that on your own. heh heh
I think there were a few Republican Senators that said no to McCain about speaking for him at the Convention and no one noticed. So it is not odd for someone to say no.
The way they treated Hillary she has the right to say sorry no thanks.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 8, 2008 05:14 PM
Tom, I think so too, I would prefer they argue and make it worse for Obama haha, but I think they will do just like you said and " pretend to have solidarity.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 8, 2008 05:18 PM
BobF there is that too yes. They could always say because of health or something Biden has to step down and Hillary take over the VP. That would be horrible for sure.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 8, 2008 05:21 PM
Mark, LOL yes good idea that would be fun to be in something like that.
Thanks for the Rudy quote, Rudy knows what the Clinton's are like and how Obama too has thrown people under the bus. hahaha
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 8, 2008 05:25 PM
