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Former President Bill Clinton has agreed to all of the conditions sought by President-elect Barack Obama s transition team to eliminate potential conflicts of interest if Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes secretary of state, people close to the Clintons said Wednesday.

Mr. Clinton accepted several restrictions on his business and philanthropic activities to remove any obstacle to his wife s nomination if the cabinet job is formally offered and accepted, said the associates, who insisted that they not be identified because they were disclosing confidential negotiations. I ll do whatever they want, Mr. Clinton said Wednesday at a public appearance.

Washington continued to be gripped by the drama surrounding Mrs. Clinton s fate and the possibility that Mr. Obama might bring his toughest rival for the Democratic presidential nomination into his cabinet. Mr. Obama s advisers said the talks had gone well, but would not say if an agreement to avoid conflicts had been reached, as the Clinton camp has indicated.

I m certain President Clinton will do whatever it takes, which means whatever President-elect Obama wants, to make the nomination acceptable, if he offers and she accepts, said Lanny J. Davis, a longtime Clinton friend who was special counsel in his White House and has consulted the Clinton camp in recent days.

Asked about the situation at a ceremony in New York renaming the Triborough Bridge after Robert F. Kennedy on Wednesday, Mr. Clinton pledged the same without elaboration. Whatever they want, he said. He added that it was between the president-elect and his wife. You should talk to them. I ll do whatever they want.

Mr. Clinton is being represented in the talks by his longtime aides, Cheryl D. Mills, Bruce R. Lindsey and Douglas J. Band. Mr. Obama is being represented by John D. Podesta, his transition co-leader Todd Stern, a deputy to Mr. Podesta, and Thomas J. Perrelli, a Harvard Law School classmate of Mr. Obama s. Reflecting the complex entanglements of the negotiations, all three of Mr. Obama s representatives served in Mr. Clinton s administration.

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You are probably right.......If they were winning there is no way they will be making such offers to VP.

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still don't know the difference between BAIT and OFFER :) lol

What is this talk of you having me as a new 'target' ????????

still don't know the difference between BAIT and OFFER :) lol