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Obama and Bill Clinton to Hold Summit
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Obama and Bill Clinton to Hold Summit By John M. Broder 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.
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TABLE FOR TWO
http://thepage.time.com/2008/09/10/table-for-two/Sen. Obama and Bill Clinton to finally have a meal together. The pair is expected to have lunch in Gotham City on Thursday. The former president knew Obama was planning to be in New York for 9/11-related events, and made the invite, following up on previous plans to get together.
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Hey Hillary, leave the gun, take the canolies ~ Obama and Bill Clinton to Hold Summit
http://www.theodoresworld.net/archives/2008/09/hey_hillary_l...Here's what the meeting will look like between the Clinton Crime Family and the Chicago Syndicate. Obama and Bill Clinton to Hold Summit New York Times 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. . 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.
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Losing the pundits, one by one
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_09...Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (29) MONDAY'S CAMPAIGN ROUND-UP....Today's installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn't generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * A new USA Today/Gallup poll taken over the weekend shows McCain leading Obama among registered voters, 50% to 46%. Among those identified as likely voters, the lead is even bigger, 54% to 44%. * Nate Silver has an analysis piece on post-convention polling in general. * In responding to the new McCain ad, the Obama team used the "l" word: "Despite being discredited over and over again by numerous news organizations, the McCain campaign continues to repeat the lie that Sarah Palin stopped the Bridge to Nowhere." * Obama and Bill Clinton will meet on Thursday at Clinton's offices in Harlem. The New York Times said this will be their "first extended face-to-face encounter after more than a year of tense relations, aides said Sunday." * Speaking of the Clintons, Hillary Clinton will campaign for Obama today in Florida, with a discussion on the economy near Orlando this afternoon and a rally this evening in Tampa. * Dick Cheney offers enthusiastic support for Sarah Palin. Condoleezza Rice's support sounds more restrained. * Joe Biden told Tom Brokaw yesterday that, as a religious matter, he believes life begins at conception. Biden is, however, pro-choice as a matter of government policy. * The National Republican Senatorial Committee must feel pretty certain about Tom Udall's (D) chances of winning the open Senate seat in New Mexico this year -- the NRSC is calling off scheduled TV ads in the state. —Steve Benen
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Today's news stories
http://www.democraticcentral.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2548Virginia's policies on registering students to vote gets national attention -- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09... Bob Woodward's The War Within, Part 2, in which Bush decides to surge, against advice of the JCS -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/... Why the violence is down (not just the surge) -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/... In the discussion of a nuclear Iran, we need to acknowledge that we can't really stop it, and no one has any real clue on what to do -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/... McCain still not asking voters to sacrifice even a dime to a cause greater than themselves -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/... The family in this campaign -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/... New Hampshire Senate race is all about the pocketbook -- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09... Both Obama and McCain support Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac rescues -- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09... Krugman explains the concern about debt deflation, which is still unresolved -- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09... Next president has a tough economic situation to address -- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09... Culture war in the U.S. is diverting attention from real wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09... It's McCain vs. House and Senate Republicans -- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09... Jeremiah Wright preaches in Newark, praises Obama -- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09... House Dems decide not to force another vote on SCHIP before November -- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09... Obama and Bill Clinton to meet on 9/11 -- http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes... Joe Biden talks about abortion, the Catholic Church, and choice -- http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes... Palin, fusing motherhood and governing -- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09... Palin energizing Republican base -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/... Conservative pastors looking to change prohibition on endorsements from the pulpit -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/... ABC's Charles Gibson will be granted an audience with Princess Sarah -- http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes... But Oprah says no to interviewing Palin, and catches a lot of flak -- http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes... David Gregory to anchor MSNBC's Election Night and debate coverage -- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09... http://www.washingtonpost.com/... Jim Gilmore starts advertising, but not in NoVa -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/... McCain/Palin expected in Northern Virginia, maybe on Wednesday -- http://voices.washingtonpost.c... Obama to come to southwest Virginia (Lebanon) on Tuesday -- http://voices.washingtonpost.c... Federal highway trust fund is out of money -- http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/...
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Withers: Clinton (Bill) and Obama plan to have a sit down
http://www.365gay.com/blog/090808-clinton-and-obama-plan-a-p...Withers: Clinton (Bill) and Obama plan to have a sit down By James Withers, contributing editor, 365Gay Blog 09.08.2008 9:09am EDT It doesn’t compare to the number of sit downs that feuding rappers occasionally have, but it’s close. When Barack Obama is in New York this Thursday, he will have a private lunch with former president, William Jefferson Clinton. Obama will be in the Big Apple to commemorate the September 11 attacks alongside rival John McCain; both have promised to turn off the partisan politics for the seventh anniversary of the worst terrorist attacks on the country’s soil. Apparently when Clinton heard Obama was going to be in town, he extended the lunch date invitation. Read More: Withers: Clinton (Bill) and Obama plan to have a sit down
