Clinton insider says Bill and Hillary will work hard for Barack Obama

[gi4obama]

Some Democrats have worried Hillary Clinton could be the skunk at Barack Obama's convention party, but Clinton insiders say she and her sulking husband are now determined to be team players.

Both Clintons plan to press hard-core supporters all week to end their boycotts and brooding and embrace Obama's candidacy. They will urge their zealots to work for Obama and will make a point in their convention talks of demonstrating the past is over and they are firmly behind an Obama victory, sources said.

"When their speeches are over, there will be no doubt that the Clintons are working hard for Sen. Obama," a Clinton source predicted. "This will be a unified party this week. That is Sen. Clinton's intention."

To that end, Clinton aides have also assembled a 40-person "whip team" - headed by veteran political operative Craig Smith - to quell anti-Obama demonstrators.


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