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Hillary Clinton Would Make Good Vice President, Says Obama

August 11, 2007

Offering an olive branch to a rival with whom he had battled for more than a week, Barack Obama said Friday that fellow senator Hillary Rodham Clinton would make a good vice president should he win the Democratic presidential nomination.

"Hillary Clinton is a very capable person and I'm sure she would be on top of, or on the short list of anybody's list for VP - she is on the short list for president, too," he said, drawing laughter and applause at a candidates forum hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists. "I have admiration for Sen. Clinton."

Obama will have to battle Clinton for support among black voters. She is pulling ahead of him in South Carolina, where blacks are expected to make up nearly half of primary voters.

Obama and Clinton have sparred sharply since Clinton characterized Obama as naive for saying during a July 23 debate that he would negotiate with dictators without preconditions to advance peace.

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"The people who have been criticizing me over the past two weeks are the people who engineered what is the biggest foreign policy fiasco in a generation," Obama said earlier in the forum, apparently referring to Clinton's 2002 vote to authorize President George W. Bush to send troops to Iraq.

Obama also rejected Clinton's assertion that he was wrong for discussing hypothetical decisions on foreign policy, including his suggestion that he would use military force to pursue Osama bin Laden in Pakistan should intelligence indicate he was hiding on the country's lawless western border.

The bi-racial senator, who arrived several minutes late to the mid-day forum, drew collegial laughter from the audience when he joked that his tardy arrival was a planned response to questions of whether he is "black enough" to win broad support among African-Americans.

Obama, who is vying to become the first non-white president, said his election would change America's racial dynamic by allowing Americans to see a black family in the White House.

Referring to his wife, he said, "You have Michelle as first lady in the White House, and you have [my children] running around on the South Lawn, that changes how America looks at itself."

Source:  Newsday

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