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By Maeve Reston
March 22, 2014, 8:36 a.m.
When John McCain was running for president in 2008, he often spoke warmly of his friendship with Hillary Rodham Clinton as an illustration of his ability to work across the political aisle. They had traveled the world together as fellow senators from the Arctic to Estonia developing a mutual respect that often seemed to transcend party squabbles.
At times, it almost seemed that they would have preferred squaring off against one another rather than Barack Obama. In the heat of the 2008 primary, Clinton argued that she and McCain had a lifetime of experience that they could bring to the White House, while Obama had a speech he delivered in 2002.
Six years later -- even with all the partisan bickering over the attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi -- that warmth between McCain and the Clintons appears to have survived. It was evident at the opening session of the youth-focused conference known as the Clinton Global Initiative University on Friday night at Arizona State University.
The former secretary of State offered a brief introduction to the weekend-long conference before turning over the microphone to her husband, who moderated the first panel on the age of participation.
As former president Clinton introduced the panel, which featured McCain, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Saudi rights activist Manal al-Sharif, he described McCain as a good friend of Hillarys and mine, although we permit him to deny it at election time.
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TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)the better off we will be.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)demanding better candidates happens just by wishing for them?
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Pretty much what I did in 2007.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)I ask again...when are you running?
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)only those that bash all the Democrats(except for Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders of course) are the true Democrats.....or something...
and of course supporting the Affordable Care Act is utter blasphemy!
Demanding better democrats is one thing....but to also bash every one with the juice to win elections without offering up some new candidates that somehow manage to meet all their qualifications is entirely another....And its not productive UNLESS you can produce a winner....otherwise reality is....
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)It's the Clinton way.