Barack Obama says Hillary Clinton 'would make an excellent president'

[Surya Gayatri]

Source: The Guardian

A day before Hillary Clinton’s much-touted launch of her run for the White House in 2016, Barack Obama said on Saturday that his former secretary of state and 2008 primary opponent would be “an excellent president”.

As the Guardian reported in an exclusive on Thursday night, Clinton is set to announce her candidacy for the Democratic nomination on Sunday.

The president was speaking in Panama City, after an historic meeting with Cuban president Raúl Castro on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas and before a diplomatically delicate meeting with the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro.

The president said Clinton – who was first lady for eight years, then senator for New York and secretary of state in his first term in office – “was a formidable candidate in 2008, she was a great supporter of mine in the general election, she was an outstanding secretary of state, she is my friend.


Barack Obama gives a press conference in Panama City. Photograph: Raul Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/11/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-excellent-president

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[stonecutter357]

1. i do to

[Surya Gayatri]

2. Me three!

[Helen Borg]

3. Glad he did not say she would be only "so so".

These are clearly the kinds of statements where people really open their heart and say what they believe.

[Surya Gayatri]

4. ^^^AMEN to that^^^

[asjr]

7. I will vote for Hillary but I sure am

going to miss Obama. Both have the intelligence needed for a presidency.

[leftofcool]

5. I agree.

[Surya Gayatri]

6. Yeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssss! Thanks for kicking.

[L0oniX]

8. +1%

[Surya Gayatri]

10. Well, hey, thanks for the 1%, anyway...LOL!

[FLPanhandle]

9. I think she will too

The contrast between any of the Democratic candidates and say a President Cruz or a President Scott Walker is vast.

[Larry Engels]

13. Cruz and Walker will move toward the center in the general election.

So will Hillary. On some issues you won't be able to tell who is more right-wing.

[JoePhilly]

11. One more thing he'll be right about.

[Beacool]

12. Thank you, Mr. president.

[Reter]

14. Too bad he didn't say she would be awful

I like when they fight, reminds me of 2008.

[blkmusclmachine]

15. Two Third Way "Democrats"~