The press is full of Bill Clinton/Barack Obama’s embrace at a rally last night. It was hugely symbolic to have Mr Clinton warmly endorse Obama last night. Whilst Obama is favourite to win the race for the White House, the Democrats have been here before. Seemingly ahead in the polls, an unpopular Republican administration, huge donations,

PoliticalBetting.com has an interesting piece on the Democratic Party's debate over a running mate for Barack Hussein Obama. Mrs Bill Clinton is apparently being considered. Surely this would be a bad move for both Obama and Clinton alike.While having Clinton on board would give him access to her money, activists and voters (particularly white blue-collar workers in the North East and Mid-West) it...

It looks like it could really happen and Barack Obama will name one time rival Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. It would be a smart move on his part. There have been a lot of criticisms of Hillary Clinton on just about every front and she clashed bitterly with Obama in the nomination

We now know that Barack Obama met Hillary Clinton in Chicago on Thursday. Senior Obama advisers are giving anonymous briefings that she's under consideration for Secretary of State. The former First Lady herself done nothing to quash the speculation, indicating she's clearly open to at least being considered for the job. There may well be some games being played her - this storyline make...

Turns out Hillary Clinton's "personal" trip to Chicago involves meeting personally with President-elect Barack Obama at his transition headquarters. Mike Allen: President-elect Barack Obama met Thursday with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) at his transition headquarters in Chicago as a growing chorus of advisers pushes her for secretary of state. ...

Heh: A new national poll suggests that Americans think President-elect Barack Obama’s getting it right when it comes to his Cabinet picks, especially Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates. A poll shows 71 percent of Americans approve of Barack Obama picking Hillary Clinton for secretary of state. Seventy-five percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey

With hindsight it is clear that Hillary Clinton should have either hugged Barack Obama so close from the outset that he couldn’t wiggle free or set out to destroy him as soon as he announced his candidacy. Hillary, though, tried an odd mix of the two, giving Obama just the opening he needed. Gordon Brown had the same two options after David Miliband’s infamous Guardian op-ed. Team Brow...

Just arrived in Ankara with the White House bubble. It's been a very long day, particularly for President Barack Obama who was woken in his suite at the Hilton in Prague in the early hours by Robert Gibbs, his Press Secretary. The bleary-eyed commander-in-chief was told that North Korea had launched a rocket over Japan. It wasn't quite at 3am - the time was 4.30am - but it was exactly th...

Ouch. Bill Clinton moves in with hands and puckered lips to kiss his wife Hillary. But the Secretary of State is having none of it and leaves Bill sucking air as she dodges and does a mwah mwah with President Barack Obama. I guess all that tireless campaigning by Bill on her behalf wasn't enough to atone for past, er, sins. Fox ...

Mombasa's north beach, not far from his birthplace which has become a national attraction Judge for yourself: * Hillary Clinton is only the biggest name in what has become the second coming of the Clintonites and other old, familiar faces to Washington. * Obama's new chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was an insider in the Clinton White House. * So was Susan Rice, who will serve as UN ambassado...