Don’t Call Me—I May Call You
Newsweek, August, 2008 by Howard Fineman
Soon after he wrapped up the Democratic nomination in June, Sen. Barack Obama invited some of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s key financial supporters—“bundlers” in the trade—to a private cocktail party and dinner in Washington. These were the more practical types, many of them women, who loved Hillary but the Democratic Party even more. They felt the need to give face-to-face advice to their new champion. One of them, speaking to me on condition of anonymity, said she pleaded with the senator to spend quality time with a wounded and therefore potentially disruptive Bill Clinton. “I told Barack, ‘Have dinner. Clear the air. Win him over’.” Obama didn’t seem eager, but he did make a brief call a month later. The bundler pressed him to do more. “Barack told me it was hard to find the time,...
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