Clinton and Obama "put on a bit of a show for hundreds of donors"

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NYT: Clinton and Obama Mend Fences by Raising Funds
By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: July 11, 2008

It was not quite a screwball comedy at the New York Hilton and Towers Thursday morning, but Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama put on a bit of a show before hundreds of donors at a political breakfast. In their continuing effort to put the rivalry and bad blood of the primaries behind them, the two Democrats appeared together at a Women for Obama fund-raising event. It came the morning after they appealed to donors at different gatherings on Wednesday night in an effort to help Senator Clinton pay off part of the $23 million in debt she ran up trying to beat him in the primary campaign.

Both were effusive in their praise of the other on Thursday, as they have been in public — at least in public — since their very public show of post-primary unity in Unity, N.H., two weeks ago. But Mrs. Clinton allowed a small, humorous glimpse of the resentment she still felt at being bested by her younger, cooler opponent and at what she believed were the tougher challenges women still face in American politics and life.

“Barack and I were talking before we came out here,” Mrs. Clinton said as she and Mr. Obama took the stage, “and he said ‘You look kind of rested.’ I said ‘kind of’ is the right descriptor.” She went on, “I am trying to exercise a little bit now, which I’m told does wonders for a person. You know, during the campaign, Barack would get up every morning and go to the gym. I would get up and get my hair done. It’s just one of those Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire things that are part of our lives.”

Not that she’s complaining, of course.

She then told the crowd of mostly, but not exclusively, women, that it was time to get over the frustrations of the primaries and pull together to put Mr. Obama in the White House....

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When his turn came, Mr. Obama paid elaborate homage to Mrs. Clinton and went on at some length about how while her campaign and his had shattered barriers, America still had far to go.

“Hillary Rodham Clinton and I may have started on separate paths in the course of this campaign,” he said. “One election cannot erase all the biases and outdated attitudes we’re still wrestling to overcome. And we know there were times during this campaign when those biases flared and emerged. But while this campaign has shown us how far we have to go, we also know that because of what Hillary accomplished, my daughters and yours look at themselves a little differently today. They’re dreaming a little bigger and setting their sights a little higher today.”...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/us/politics/11obamacnd.html?hp