Bill Clinton offers to help Obama

WASHINGTON â?? Former President Clinton on Tuesday offered to help Barack Obama win the White House, although what work he'll do for his wife's former rival remained uncertain.

The Obama campaign is still smarting over some of Bill Clinton's criticism in the primary race. Before the two can work together, they have to speak.

Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have taken steps to join efforts in the last three weeks â?? she met with him privately, endorsed his campaign and will campaign with him Friday. But the former Democratic president and the man running to be the next one haven't talked since the campaign ended.

Obama praised the former president and said he's "looking forward to setting up a long conversation."

"He's as smart as they come. He's a great strategist. We're going to want him campaigning for me," Obama said Tuesday.

Clinton extended his support to Obama for the first time Tuesday in a one-sentence statement from spokesman Matt McKenna.

"President Clinton is obviously committed to doing whatever he can and is asked to do to ensure Senator Obama is the next president of the United States," McKenna said.
Bill Clinton offers to help Obama | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

December 15, 2007 -- Wild Bill Clinton drew his wife's battle-scarred campaign even further off track when he told interviewer Charlie Rose that Americans would be taking a "risk" by voting for close rival Barack Obama, saying the junior senator from Illinois wasn't ready to be president.

"If you listen to the people who are most strongly for [Obama], they say basically we have to throw away all these experienced people because they have been through the wars of the 1990s," Clinton told Rose for the PBS show that aired Friday night.

Obama supporters say they want someone who "started running for president a year after he became a senator because he's fresh, he's new, he's never made a mistake, and he has massive political skills. And we're willing to risk it."

"When I was governor and young and thought I was the best politician in the Democratic Party, I didn't run the first time I could have," he said, refering to the 1988 campaign. "I knew in my bones I shouldn't run. That I was a good enough politician to win, but I didn't think I was ready to be president."
BRUTAL BILL CLINTON BASHES BARACK OBAMA - New York Post

This should make for some GREAT GOP commercials.

Have a good one!:s4: