Posted on 09/07/2008 2:34:15 PM PDT by kristinn
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.
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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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Bill will invite Monica, and Barak will invite......................................................Larry Sinclair!
I hope he doesn’t forget his prayer rug.
Summit....a word that isn’t even used when President Bush meets with foreign heads of state. The DBM is so biased.
This ought to be interesting. I wonder whether the topic of discussion will be who truly will be considered the first black president, or whether they’ll discuss which campaign played the race card first in the primaries? I wonder if we’ll get leaks of one of those famous Clinton temper tantrums out of the meeting.
Slick Willie has got to love this. He’s about to have the “King” grovel at his feet!!! Ya gotta love that “unity” stuff. Clinton Inc. wins again.
For the majority of lemmings who would vote for this muslim, who’s Bill Clinton?
Just a simple intimate lunch... Bill, Barry and a few 100 of their closest reporters...
Maybe Percy Sutton and Khalid al Mansour will stop in to say hi.
Instead of remembering the fallen, Obama and Clinton will be bashing Bush/Cheny and McCain Palin.
Bill will offer a plan to dump Joe and bring Hillary to the ticket?
Either the Chicago Machine is going to rumble with the Trailer Park Mafia, or nObama is going to kiss Bill’s uh... ring.
A “Summit” huh?
Yeah, Larry would appreciate it!
Does anyone, with the exception of Barry, really believe that Clinton will behave in the best interests of the Obama campaign?
Sounds like a lot of *men* meeting in Harlem. Don’t the Democrats have any important women?!
Is Obama’s closest adviser the designated “FOOD TASTER”.
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