Clinton Stresses Support for Obama Candidacy

LAS VEGAS — Hillary Rodham Clinton says she truly wants Barack Obama to win the White House, even though he dashed her own presidential dreams. And she’s going to keep saying it, despite the doubters. The New York senator was campaigning here in Nevada Friday for her former rival, her first appearance for Obama since the two appeared together in Unity, N.H., in June. In another sign of growing detente between the House of Clinton and the House of Obama, Democrats said Bill Clinton would speak on the third night of this month’s national convention in Denver. The Clintons’ efforts on Obama’s behalf may ease worries within the party that bad feelings from the long primary battle might erupt at the convention. “It’s as old as, you know, Greek drama,” Sen. Clinton told supporters in a speech to a private gathering, which was later posted on the Web. In this particular drama, the Clintons insist they are doing everything they can to get her ... (link)