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Basketball star Charles Barkley posed for pictures at a Virginia delegation party.
(Jae C. Hong - AP)
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FIGHTING INDIGESTION
A Healthy Start to the Day
DENVER -- In yesterday's Washington Post, we told you about the continued hard feelings some Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters in Maryland's delegation harbor toward the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). In particular, Montgomery County delegate Mary Boergers remained frustrated. The article apparently ruffled some feathers among the delegates, who gathered Tuesday for a delegation breakfast at the Renaissance Denver Hotel, where the group is based.
Boergers said delegate Carolyn Howard, who had supported Clinton but is now backing Obama, came up to her and asked to speak to her in private. Though they were not able to do so immediately, the pair, who are longtime friends, agreed to get together.
Other delegates were alarmed when Ann Lewis, a longtime Clinton confidante who lives in Maryland, attended the breakfast to give the delegation a pep talk. Rumors circulated that Lewis had been dispatched to calm the waters, though other delegates said that her appearance was scheduled well before The Post's article had appeared.
Lewis urged the group to get behind Obama and said that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has selectively used clips of Clinton's criticisms of Obama during the primary to try to stoke animosity between the Democratic camps.
"She noted John McCain was not using Hillary's clips on health care, on Iraq, on all the things she was so diametrically opposed to John McCain over," Boergers said.
-- David Nakamura
NO HARM, NO FOUL
Barkley Scores a Photo-Op
DENVER -- Former NBA star Charles Barkley made an unscheduled visit at a party for the Virginia delegation that was sponsored by Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D).
Barkley mingled with the crowd for more than an hour, posing for pictures with delegates and numerous elected officials, including Kaine and Richmond Mayor L. Douglas Wilder, a former Virginia governor.
