Clinton says her husband determined to help Obama

Thomas Ferraro
Reuters
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Hillary Clinton brushed off suggestions on Wednesday that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, does not seem to share her enthusiasm for campaigning for Democratic White House candidate Barack Obama.

"He has said he will do what ever can and whatever he is asked to do," Clinton said, a day after her husband's spokesman issued a one-sentence statement of support for Obama, who will face Republican John McCain in the November election.

The former president, who gave Obama's energy policy faint praise over the weekend, has not yet said in public that he would back Obama who narrowly defeated his wife for the party's presidential nomination in a rough-and-tumble campaign.

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A Democratic leadership aide said the former two-term president appears to have had a more difficult time getting over the setback than his wife.

"But he'll get there," the aide said. "She's moving on quickly."

Hillary Clinton, who conceded defeat and endorsed Obama on June 7, will hold her first party unity event with the senator from Illinois on Friday in Unity, New Hampshire.

She met privately on Wednesday with Democrats in the House of Representatives, a day after returning to Congress and being embraced by fellow Senate Democrats at a closed-door luncheon.

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