Clinton: Kerry Not Too Left to Get Elected

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton (news - web sites) said on Thursday he did not think Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) was too far to the left politically to get elected to the White House, but stopped short of endorsing him for the Democratic presidential nomination.



Clinton, speaking to reporters after meeting Democratic senators on Capitol Hill, praised Kerry's record on national security, social and fiscal issues in the Senate, while insisting he was not taking sides in the Democratic contest.


"I don't think it's fair to say he can't be elected, or that he's too far to the left," Clinton said of Kerry, the Massachusetts senator who has won both the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary in the last 10 days.


The former president, considered by many in his party as a centrist, spoke after a reporter asked whether Kerry was "a little too liberal" to win the general election in November should he be the Democratic nominee.

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