Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark says he has not ruled out Hillary Clinton as a potential running mate if he wins the nomination.
 Gen. Wesley Clark |
While Clark was campaigning in Portsmouth, N.H., Sen. Clinton, D-N.Y., told reporters in Manhattan she would not endorse one of her party’s nine candidates because it is “more important to coalesce around a nominee,” the Associated Press reported.
“I remember back in December of 1991, when my husband was, I don’t think, above 4 percent in the polls,” Clinton said, according to the AP. “I remember all the way through the months of the primaries and the caucuses there was a hard-fought battle … so I want to see how the process plays out.”
Clark, meanwhile, praised Clinton as a great leader and person and said he has admired her for 20 years.
Reporters asked Clinton to comment in the wake of former Vice President Al Gore’s endorsement today of front-runner Howard Dean, who according to polls, leads by as many as 32 points in New Hampshire.
Gore said today Dean was the only Democratic candidate with the right position on the Iraq war.
“Our country has been weakened in its ability to fight the war against terror because of the catastrophic mistake the Bush administration made in taking us into war in Iraq,” Gore said, according to the AP.
Responding to a question, Clinton said she did not believe Gore insulted members of Congress who backed the war resolution, adding “it’s healthy to have a good debate about important issues here at home and abroad.”
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