Across the pond

According to the New York Times Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton met last night for an hour in the sitting room of Dianne Feinstein’s Washington house. She left them alone for an hour with two facing chairs and a jug of water. The security men stayed in the next room. The aides were outside and the media pack was miles away.

To find out whhere the media pack were I had to go The Guardian. Their report says the media pack were waiting on an aircraft bound for Chicago for Obama to join them. In fact, the plane took off without him, taking the media folk AWAY from the main story. It was not until after the jet had landed in Chicago that the media was told that the meeting had taken place.

Have not yet come across any reliable reports about what they said to each other. But Feinstein insists there was no shouting and they got along well. Feinstein has been talking up an Obama/Clinton ticket in the last few days but the fact that the meeting took place in her house has no bearing on whether this is likely. The location was chosen because she is an old friend of Hillary Clinton’s who could be trusted to keep her mouth shut. And because she has a nice house in the right part of Washington to which both candidates could go without being chased by the press.

Associated Press reports that Hillary Clinton will make her big speech tomorrow telling her campaign team and the world that she is endorsing Obama. Although AP got the Tuesday story 180 degrees away from this truth, my guess is that tonight they have got it right.