Obama Dials the Clintons

Nick Timiraos reports on Democratic convention from Billings, Mont. President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton each received phone calls from Barack Obama after Sen. Clinton’s primetime convention address on Tuesday night. Obama praised Clinton’s speech, and told the New York senator that he loved her line, “No way, no how, no McCain.” He told her husband that, having watched his own wife, Michelle , deliver a speech on Monday night, he knew how proud the former President must have been in watching his wife. Obama watched the short Clinton video and her speech at the home of a Billings, Mont., field organizer, Eran Thompson . “That was excellent, that was a strong speech,” he later told reporters. “She made the case for why we’re going to be unified in November and why we’re going to win this election. I thought she was outstanding.” (link)