Bill Clinton Seeks to Smooth Relations With Obama

NYT/Reuters: Clinton Seeks to Smooth Relations With Obama
By REUTERS
Published: January 25, 2008

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton said he might have gone too far in attacking Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton said on Friday, adding that both Democratic presidential campaigns should focus on issues. "He said several times yesterday that maybe he got a little bit carried away," Hillary Clinton said on CBS' "Early Show."

"So we're all going to, on both sides I think, you know, try to bring this debate and this campaign back to the issues that are important," said the New York senator, who would be the first woman U.S. president.

The campaigns of Clinton and Obama, the top two contenders for the Democratic nomination, have engaged in an increasingly bitter war of words, including a debate on Monday that featured sometimes personal attacks. Obama, an Illinois senator who would be the first black president, has complained specifically about comments from Bill Clinton, including his charge that Obama's consistent opposition to the Iraq war was "a fairy tale."

Hillary Clinton, on ABC's "Good Morning America," said her husband "obviously is a passionate advocate for my cause, as are the wives of my two major opponents. But I think all of us just need to take a deep breath here because we know we'll have a united Democratic Party once this nomination is determined."...

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-usa-politics-clinton.html

wants to become President some day down the life path.

Don't trust a word they say.

Punch until bloody, and then offer a towel and an ice pack.

Now Hillary agrees with them.

As for the Hillary supporters, they never said they thought bill went too far, they want more Rove like tactics.

Fuck Rove and his followers...the Clintons

Such a shallow, stupid tactic.

sleaze and slime in SC anyway.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4182641&page=1

ABC's Sam Donaldson writes that Obama aides picked the wrong fight if they thought they could rough up Clinton without blowback. "What did Sen. Obama and his associates think was going to happen when they seized on Sen. Clinton's remark that it took a president -- Lyndon Johnson -- to bring Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream' to fruition and let it be known they thought that was discrediting Dr. King?" Donaldson writes.

"But what Obama's camp should understand is that they are up against the most accomplished and potent political machine of the present election cycle: The Clintons have been doing this for a long, long time. They know what works," Donaldson continues.

I won't question why they're saying this. I just hope it comes true.