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July 1, 2008 - 7:12am.

Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, took the first step Monday  towards trying to bridge the sea of animosity that surrounds former President Bill Clinton but party insiders say Clinton is still seething over his wife's loss and wants Obama to beg for his support.

One published report quotes the former President as saying Obama must "kiss my ass" to gain his support and angry Democratic party officials admit privately that Clinton is "making an ass of himself" with his attitude.

"There's no other way to put it...Bill Clinton is being a real asshole over this," says one Democratic party official who -- for obvious reasons -- asked not to be identified. "He's acting like a spoiled, bratty kid."

Reports Nedra Pickler of The Associated Press:

Barack Obama and Bill Clinton ended their mutual silent treatment Monday, with the Democratic presidential candidate reaching out and asking his former Democratic nemesis to help him win the White House.

In their first conversation since the end of the heated primary, former President Clinton agreed to campaign for the candidate he portrayed as inexperienced for a presidential run. Obama had said Bill Clinton's harsh criticisms led him to wonder which Clinton he was running against sometimes.

The 20-minute conversation was the latest step in bringing together the two warring camps. While Hillary Rodham Clinton has been publicly behind Obama, hard feelings remained between the former Democratic president and the candidate hoping to become the next one.

They hadn't spoken until Obama called Monday after landing in Missouri for a campaign stop. Both sides later issued statements about the conversation, an important public display of how Obama needs to have both Clintons on board moving into the general election.

Bill Clinton is still popular with voters even if his stock went down, especially among blacks, after his angry outbursts against Obama during the primary. But Obama could use the former president to help win over voters, especially the working-class whites who fondly remember better economic times under the Clinton administration and who overwhelmingly supported Hillary Clinton during the primaries.

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I'll bet that was like 20

I'll bet that was like 20 minutes in the procto chair for something OB doesn't need, an exploratory.

Calling Dr Klaus, calling Dr Klaus, patient has a giant Clintroid in the ER.

Don't forget your rubber suit, and a quarter pound of Ex-Lax.

Calling Dr KLAUS !!!!!

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Bryan, that's the funniest

Bryan, that's the funniest thing I ever read.

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This story is about as

This story is about as reliable as Rush Limbaugh's view, or for that matter, Nedra Pickler's, who is among the most lying reporters ever allowed to write for a major news organization. It's plainly created out of the animus that is felt in certain quarters for the Clintons. See how Hillary came through? Now you can pick on Bill, because he went away to Europe to leave the stage to Barack and Hillary. If he had stuck around, you and Pickler would have found some smarmy way of implying that "he just couldn't keep his nose out of it." There are far too many people who are small enough to define themselves by one thing: hatred of the Clintons, who began the revival of the Democratic Party in the '90s.

All these unnamed sources should speak up or shut up.

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Ya! Ya! Ya! Your Doctor

Ya! Ya! Ya! Your Doctor Klaus ist hier, Ich bin waiting fur Herr Obama to geben das wort und Ich vill take care of Herr Obama's Clintonectomy ASAP -Looks Like it Vill be a DOUBLE Clintonectomy, ya!

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NY native I guess everyone,

NY native
I guess everyone, including Obama, is forgetting the peace & prosperity we enjoyed during the Clinton years. I don't blame the president for his anger, for Obama has insulted him. Obama should apologize to Clinton for discounting the years of his presidency.

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Doctor Klaus liked Bill

Doctor Klaus liked Bill Clinton too, Ya! but if Herr Bill Clinton hadn't listend to Herr Ronald Reagan who told Bill Clinton to,"Win One For The Zipper", then we wouldn't have had to trudge through MonicaGate, and Bill Clinton could have concentrated on winning one for the Nation, Ya!

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OH . YA YA ! That funny

OH . YA YA !

That funny thing called , AMERICA.

Embarrass us once,

Goodbye,

Pop said , Keep it in your pocket,

He grew up before there were pockets !

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Bill Clinton is a racist at

Bill Clinton is a racist at worst and a jerk at best.
The proper protocol is for the former president of to reach out with a congratulatory call to the winner of the nomination of his party.
Hillary, the bitch, also should have called Obama on June 3 and congratulated him, but instead she ignored his calls to her, forcing him to leave, not one, but two messages on her voicemail, then allowed Terry McAiliffe to intoduce her as the "next president of the United States" when her rival had clearly won the nomination!!
The Clintons clearly don't want to relinquish control of the Democratic Party, and especially not to a black man.
Anybody who doesn't realize that has their head stuck up their asses.
As far as the illusory "peace and prosperity" of the of the Clinto era is concerened, read on:
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/72336

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Und Billy Haben sie Rocket

Und Billy Haben sie Rocket in Das Pocket, Ya! -HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!!!

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