Hillary Clintons Bond with Obama Slow to Build, Richard Wolffe Book Revival Reports - The Daily Beast

The Lingering Obama-Clinton Cold War
by Richard Wolffe

Info Richard Wolffe is a Daily Beast columnist and an award-winning journalist. He covered the entire length of Barack Obama's presidential campaign for Newsweek magazine.

Hillary just gave Barack a boost, nudging Israel to halt West Bank settlements. But as Richard Wolffe's new book, Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House, reports, their bond took time to build, and among top aides, resentments linger.
The midterms were a disaster. The G-20: a bust. So President Obama entered the weekend in desperate need of a bit of good news. He got some, at long last, on Saturday, thanks in large part to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose marathon negotiating session this week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resulted in a 90-day suspension of West Bank settlements—and the momentary revival of hope, however tenuous, for the Middle East peace process.

You could practically feel Obama's sense of relief. Talking with reporters aboard Air Force One on the way home from his largely blighted Asia trip, the president termed the development "promising," and praised Netanyahu "for taking, I think, a very constructive step."