Posted on 09/09/2008 2:41:23 AM PDT by markomalley
Barack Obama is set to meet Bill Clinton at the former president's foundation headquarters in Harlem on Thursday in their first face-to-face meeting since Mr Obama defeated Hillary Clinton in the primary elections in June.
The meeting comes as John McCain, the Republican candidate, moved into the lead in the polls for the first time in the campaign.
Mr Clinton, the former two-term president, will offer advice to the Democratic nominee about how to deal with the coming 57 days before the election, amid Democratic worries about Mr Obama's shaky numbers in the polls.
Yesterday a Gallup-USA Today poll gave Mr McCain a double-digit lead at 54 per cent to Mr Obama's 44 per cent among "likely voters". But the more closely watched Gallup tracking poll, which takes a larger sample of voters and provides a three-day rolling average, showed the gap at 48 per cent to 43 per cent. This was more in line with other polls. A poll by ABC-Washington Post today shows the two level.
Most analysts attributed Mr McCain's improving numbers to his selection of Sarah Palin, which has proved popular with voters well beyond the Republican Party's social conservative base. According to Gallup's tracking poll, Mr McCain got a five point "bounce" from the Republican convention in St Paul last week, which was the same as Mr Obama's short-lived bounce from the Democratic convention in Denver the previous week.
They went into the conventions level on 45 per cent. "My guess is that it will take another 10 days for the numbers to settle down at which point they will probably be neck and neck again," said Jennifer Duffy, a senior editor at the Cook Political Report in Washington. "The difference between the two "bounces" is that Mr Obama's was cut short by Sarah Palin's
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Interviewing for an intern position after November 4.
Bubba will give him the wrong advice to sabotage him.
If bill pulls a cigar out barry, be afraid, be very afraid.
Ummmm ... ohhhhh... hmmmm..Godfather..grant me ...this one favor...
First, locate a 22 year-old intern...
This would be a great time for the good Senator to develop some type of condition that requires him to step down.
Senator Hillary Clinton to the rescue for VP?
Perfect. This is great news. Clinton got 43% of the vote. So wil Obaba. Spunky Sarah Will energize the base and it will be aloha to Obama and his communist minions in the media. I was against Mcain but am now seeing him as amaster political strategist. He is running rings around the drive by media.
An apt description of the quintessential Socialist Democrat!!
Odd that Obama goes to him, rather than Clinton comes to Obama.
I’m thinkin the Clintons have the higher hand at this point.
Pay off Hillary's debts or Hillary is going to be lukewarm on her attacks on Palin.
It will be interesting. She has competing interests. One is to run again in 2012 which means Obama needs to go down. The other is that pesky $10 million debt... My bet is she takes the money and still is lukewarm on the attacks in true form stiffing The One.
The Messiah, groveling, hat in hand to Slick Willard. Oh to be a fly on the wall!!!
Willard will do what he says best say a lot of nothing, Obama will be temporarily relieved because he also says nothing using a lot of words. Obama will wake up the next day and realize Willie just took him for a ride, that he has nothing to fight with and no defenses to his increasingly fragile ego.
The floundering will increase. The Emperor stripped of his clothes, bit by bit by bit. The death by 1000 paper cuts, he will welcome the coup de grace.
Aw. That is how I’d have it end. lovely :)
Why thank you, it felt rather poetic writing it. : )
Leave the gun, take the cannoli’s.
Unbelievable!
I was thinking that too. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Clintons have dug up all the dirt they can on Obama, including his citizenship which Bill cryptically referred to recently. Over lunch Bill lays out all the evidence and threatens to leak it unless he replaces Biden with Hillary. That’s the way those people work. Never count the Clintons out.
He also said that Sara Palin championed... CHAMPIONED... the “Bridge to Nowhere”!
Notice the article says Thursday. Leaving out the date.
September 11.
Obama bring your wallet your paying.
“Keeping friends close but enemies closer”??
Clinton stands to walk out of the room, leaving Barrack Obama slumped in his chair. Over his shoulder, a smiling Clinton says, “Better put some ice on that, Barry.”
That’s what I see in this, too. Obama goes to the mountain...
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