Bill Clinton Announces His Support For Obama

Bill Clinton, former president, has announced that he is willing to campaign for White House hopeful Senator Barack Obama, who defeated his wife Hillary Clinton in the Democratic nomination race.

“He said he wanted me to campaign with him and I said I was eager to do so,” Clinton told reporters, “But he is busier than I am on politics anyway so I just told him whenever he wanted to do it I was ready. So it is basically on their timetable. He’s got a lot of things to do between now and the convention of which this is simply one. So I will do whatever I’m asked to do whenever I can do it.”

Obama and Clinton had a private meeting on June 30, but Mr. Clinton has not yet spoken publicly about it.

Clinton’s support has been branded as more of a liability than an asset for Obama, by Democratic strategists and a former fund-raiser for Senator Clinton’s campaign.

When asked to comment on the Jesse Jackson episode. Bill Clinton replied “He’s a good man. You know, if all of us lived on live mics, then 100% of us in this room would be embarrassed from time to time.”

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