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Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton rift persists

 

Published 8/26/2008 at L.A. Times - Politics

His backers see her support as tepid. A reported flap over Bill Clinton's convention speech only exacerbates matters. > The big question of the presidential election, says L. Douglas Wilder, the nation's first elected black governor, is not whether America is ready for a black president. Rather, he asks, "Are the Clintons ready?" (link)

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