New York Sen. Hillary Clinton finally made her much-sought-after presidential endorsement on Tuesday for Sen. John Kerry. But she chose to make it in a venue where few if any Americans were watching.
Rather than appear side-by-side with the Democratic presidential front-runner, or ring up Dan Rather, Katie Couric or Larry King with the big news, she chose to deliver a lukewarm statement on, of all places, Japanese TV.
"This is going to be a year, I believe, for Senator Kerry, who will be our nominee. And I will do everything I can to get him elected," Clinton told Japan's Nippon Television Network Corporation.
"So I hope that next year we will have a Democrat in the White House," she added, in quotes that didn't reach the Associated Press till the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Clinton's bizarre endorsement came at the end of a day where relations between Kerry and Sen. John Edwards improved markedly, with the likely nominee telling interviewers how much he respected his chief rival and Edwards dropping out of the race offering nothing but praise for "my good friend, John Kerry."
Could it be that New York's junior senator sees the chances of a Kerry-Clinton ticket growing slimmer by the minute?
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