Clinton convention role still not fixed

Democrat Barack Obama said Thursday he and vanquished primary rival Hillary Rodham Clinton still have not settled the issue of whether her name will be put in nomination and brought to a roll call vote at the party convention later this month. At the same time, Obama dismissed suggestions that the convention — where the party names its official nominee for the presidential race — would be tarnished by lingering hard feelings between his camp and die-hard Clinton backers, still embittered by the extended and ofttimes bitter battle for the nomination. Obama secured sufficient party delegates in June, and Clinton suspended her campaign and threw support to her Senate colleague from Chicago for the Nov. 4 election. Obama told reporters on his campaign plane Thursday that he talked separately this week to Clinton and her husband,... [read full story]