July 18, 2008
Posted: July 18th, 2008 08:01 AM ET
From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
Bill Clinton is ready to campaign for Obama.
(CNN) - He's ready. Former President Bill Clinton said Thursday he's prepared to hit the campaign trail on behalf of Barack Obama as soon as the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee asks him to. "Whenever he asks - that is, we had a good talk, and he said he wanted me to campaign with him, and I said I was eager to do so," Clinton told reporters in New York Thursday. "He's busier than I am, with politics anyway, so I just told him that whenever he wanted to do it, I was ready. "So it's basically on their timetable, he's got a lot of things to do between now and the convention," the former president added. "I'll do whatever I am asked to do, whenever I can do it." Clinton had come under criticism from some in his party for his seemingly apathetic attitude towards Obama's presidential bid, even as Hillary Clinton enthusiastically endorsed the Illinois senator shortly after he captured the Democratic nomination. The former president and Obama reportedly did not speak for close to a month after the Democratic nomination race ended. Clinton was traveling abroad for a substantial part of that time. Some reports suggested that Clinton remained upset with Obama's criticism of his administration over the course of the campaign, and the media's coverage of the race. But Terry McAuliffe, a longtime aide to the Clintons, dismissed those rumors late last month, saying "the man doesn't stay mad." Speaking to reporters Thursday - at a press conference announcing a pricing agreement that he hopes increases the availability of malaria drugs - Clinton also wouldn't say what he thought his role should be at the party's convention next month. "I have actually given no thought to it," he said. Filed under: Barack Obama Hillary Clinton
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