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| Relations with Obama better than expected: Clinton |
| Press Trust of India / Washington Aug 10, 2009, 09:24 IST |
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says her relationship with President Barack Obama, her former rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, is "better than anybody could have predicted."
The relationship "has really worked out better than anybody could have predicted," Clinton told CNN in an interview broadcast yesterday.
"I think our personal relationship has, you know, certainly deepened and broadened over the course of the last six and a half months. The time that we spend together, the difficult problems that we wrestle with."
The top US diplomat, who hit hard at Obama's inexperience and lack of toughness on the campaign trail, said she believed her policy differences with Obama during their rival presidential nomination campaigns were a question of "degree, not kind."
She admitted to being "personally very surprised" when Obama asked her to serve as secretary of state, but described the post as "a rewarding professional and personal experience."
Media speculation has persisted about tensions between the two former rivals, with suggestions she has been a disgruntled chief diplomat in her boss's shadow.
Asked to compare Obama's governing style to that of her husband, former president Bill Clinton, the former first lady said both men "bring just enormous intelligence to the job."
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