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Clinton Pledges To Help Obama Campaign

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: September 12, 2008

NEW YORK - At a lunch meeting Thursday with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, former President Clinton said he would do "a substantial number of things" to for Obama's campaign this fall.

Any bruised feelings from Obama's primary campaign against Clinton's wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, appeared to be in the past as the Illinois senator and the former president talked to reporters outside Bill Clinton's Harlem office before the pair went inside to lunch privately.

Clinton said he would do "whatever I'm asked to do" for Obama.

"We're putting him to work," Obama said.

Asked what he thought about Obama's race against Republican John McCain, Clinton said, "I predict that Senator Obama will win and win handily."

"There you go," Obama said. "You can take it from the president of the United States. He knows a little something about politics."

The former president will raise money and campaign for Obama, according to a Clinton aide, who confirmed that Clinton would go to Florida for Obama on Sept. 29. Hillary Clinton campaigned there this week.

Los Angeles Times

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