Barack Obama met
privately with Hillary Rodham Clinton, a likely vice
presidential candidate, as the Democratic nominee-in-waiting
sought to unite his fractured party against Republican
John McCain in November. One of her top supporters,
fellow New York senator Charles Schumer, said Friday
that Clinton would accept the number 2 spot.
Barack Obama met
privately with Hillary Rodham Clinton, a likely vice
presidential candidate, as the Democratic nominee-in-waiting
sought to unite his fractured party against Republican
John McCain in November.
One of her top
supporters, fellow New York senator Charles Schumer, said
Friday that Clinton would accept the number 2 spot.
''She has said if
Senator Obama should want her to be vice president and
thinks it would be best for the ticket, she will serve, she
will accept that. But on the other hand, if he chooses
someone else, she will work just as hard for the party
in November,'' Schumer told ABC's Good Morning America.
Clinton and Obama
met in Washington Thursday night, going to great
lengths to keep the meeting secret from the media
beforehand. Schumer said the meeting was not about the
vice presidency.
Robert Gibbs, an
Obama spokesman, said the meeting was to talk about
uniting the Democratic Party.
''Senator Obama
and Senator Clinton did have occasion to meet this
evening,'' Gibbs said late Thursday. ''It's the end of the
primary process. They wanted to talk about bringing
these campaigns together in unity.''
Clinton has
organized an event for Saturday in Washington, where she has
told supporters she will formally end her campaign and back
Obama for president.
Gibbs would not
say where the former rivals met, except that it was not
at Clinton's home in Washington, as had been widely
reported. CNN reported Friday that the meeting was at
California senator Dianne Feinstein's home.
Reporters
traveling with Obama sensed something might be happening
between the pair when they arrived at his campaign plane
after an event in northern Virginia and he was not
aboard.
Asked at the time
about the Illinois senator's whereabouts, Gibbs smiled
and declined to comment.
Clinton spokesman
Howard Wolfson said the former first lady isn't waging
a campaign for number 2.
''She is not
seeking the vice presidency, and no one speaks for her but
her,'' Wolfson said Thursday. ''The choice here is Senator
Obama's and his alone.''
Obama on Tuesday
night achieved the 2,118-delegate threshold he needed to
secure the Democratic nomination. (AP)
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