Oh-Oh! Obama to have private chat with Bernie Sanders on Wednesday [View all]

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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/obama-to-have-private-chat-with-bernie-sanders-on-wednesday-2016-01-26?siteid=YAHOOB

No formal agenda for meeting, no endorsement expected

President Barack Obama plans to hold a private meeting at the White House on Wednesday with Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is surging in the early state polls in the Democratic president contest. Sanders and the president will have a private Oval Office meeting, according to White House press secretary Josh Earnest.

“The President and Sen. Sanders first discussed this meeting last December when Sen. Sanders attended the Congressional Holiday Ball. The two will meet privately in the Oval Office and there will be no formal agenda,” Earnest said.

The meeting comes after Obama heaped praise on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and dismissed comparisons between Sanders’ rise in the early state polls and Obama’s groundbreaking 2008 campaign against Clinton.

“She can govern and she can start here, day one, more experienced than any non-vice-president has ever been who aspires to this office,” he said about Clinton in an interview with Politico released Monday.

“I think Bernie came in with the luxury of being a complete longshot and just letting loose,” said Obama. “I think Hillary came in with the both privilege and burden of being perceived as the front-runner. And, as a consequence, you know, where they stood at the beginning probably helps to explain why the language sometimes is different.”

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