Tom_Turner
2008-08-07, 07:30 PM
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008 ... ex.html?hp (http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/what-does-hillary-want/index.html?hp)
Senator Hillary Clinton asked the question herself on the night of the last primaries in early June: “What does Hillary want?”
That’s still a bit of a mystery, particularly as she and Senator Barack Obama negotiate over her role, and possibly that of her husband, at the Democratic convention in Denver and beyond.
Mr. Obama has given Mrs. Clinton a speaking role on the Tuesday night of the convention. But she made it clear in a recent chat with supporters — which is now on YouTube — that she is steeped in negotiations over how to salve the wounds of her disappointed supporters so that they don’t stray in November. She suggested she may allow her name to be placed in nomination, and also that her supporters don’t need her permission to do that on their own..................
Senator Hillary Clinton asked the question herself on the night of the last primaries in early June: “What does Hillary want?”
That’s still a bit of a mystery, particularly as she and Senator Barack Obama negotiate over her role, and possibly that of her husband, at the Democratic convention in Denver and beyond.
Mr. Obama has given Mrs. Clinton a speaking role on the Tuesday night of the convention. But she made it clear in a recent chat with supporters — which is now on YouTube — that she is steeped in negotiations over how to salve the wounds of her disappointed supporters so that they don’t stray in November. She suggested she may allow her name to be placed in nomination, and also that her supporters don’t need her permission to do that on their own..................