Bill Clinton Predicts Obama Will Win Election

By: Maria Gavrilovic
Topics: Barack Obama

(CBS)

From CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic:

(NEW YORK) - Barack Obama and President Bill Clinton met for 90 minutes in Harlem this afternoon over a lunch of Cosi sandwiches and flatbread pizza. They discussed the presidential campaign, the economy, and post 9/11 foreign and domestic issues, according to joint statement released after the meeting.

During a photo op prior to the meeting, Clinton predicted that Obama will win the presidential elections, adding that he will win "pretty handily."

Obama quickly chimed in, "There you go, you can take it from the president of the United States - he knows a little something about politics."

A small crowd waited to catch a glimpse of Obama and Clinton after the meeting, and chanted "Yes We Can!" when the two emerged.

"I think it was a great moment for Harlem, for New York City," Wayne Preston, a social worker for the NYC Administration for Children's Services, told reporters.

Clinton promised to campaign for Obama after the Annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting wraps up on September 26.

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by libra127 September 13, 2008 3:29 PM EDT: WHAT KIND OF A POTENTIAL FIRST LADY WOULDN''T HAVE TAKEN THIS OPPORTUNITY TO HUG OR SHAKE THE HANDS OF THE VICTIMS WHO LOST LOVED ONES IN 9/11 .

Posted by john43218 at 08:55 PM : Sep 12, 2008

One who was working, perhaps? She has a JOB. It was not a national holiday.; Reply to this comment


by democat September 13, 2008 11:56 AM EDT: Monica says don''t trust Bill Clintons crystal ball!; Reply to this comment


by democat September 13, 2008 11:56 AM EDT: Monica says don''t trust Bill Clintons crystal ball!; Reply to this comment


by democat September 13, 2008 11:52 AM EDT: oh, good! Obama will win BIG, so I can stay home on nov. 11th. He won''t need my vote to win.; Reply to this comment


by navvet2 September 12, 2008 11:25 PM EDT: Bill Clinton is only saying what the DNC wants him to say. He wants Hillary to be able to run in 2012. The Dems are looking through their rose colored glasses just like Kerry and Gore did. Bill Clinton only won because he was perceived to be a center/moderate Democrat. Obama is perceived as a leftist/socialist by the majority of Americans. I don''t think that we have become Venezuela yet.; Reply to this comment


by chicnlittle September 12, 2008 6:56 PM EDT: A politician like Bubba wouldn''''t predict a big win if he didn''''t have empirical evidence to support it. If he agreed with the conventional wisdom that it was going to be close he would say that he expected it to be close but Obama to win.

He''''s done what many of us had. He''''s ignored the national head-to-head polls that people are wetting their pants over and has looked at the numbers that matter.

That would be the state-by-state numbers in relation to the electoral map.

McCain is toast!

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Posted by realpatriot1 at 03:54 PM : Sep 12, 2008
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a,yea, ok.; Reply to this comment


by realpatriot1 September 12, 2008 6:54 PM EDT: A politician like Bubba wouldn''t predict a big win if he didn''t have empirical evidence to support it. If he agreed with the conventional wisdom that it was going to be close he would say that he expected it to be close but Obama to win.

He''s done what many of us had. He''s ignored the national head-to-head polls that people are wetting their pants over and has looked at the numbers that matter.

That would be the state-by-state numbers in relation to the electoral map.

McCain is toast!; Reply to this comment


by chicnlittle September 12, 2008 6:51 PM EDT: I can''t believe this is even a story. Did anyone expect him to predict a McCain win?; Reply to this comment


by realpatriot1 September 12, 2008 6:50 PM EDT: Fun_oBama,

Was that supposed to be an example of a run on sentence?; Reply to this comment


by realpatriot1 September 12, 2008 6:48 PM EDT: Paris, I watched the McCain and Palin speeches. They certainly don''t have my support, so what does that measure?; Reply to this comment