Hillary Clinton describes her 'awkward first date' with Obama

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Hillary Clinton describes her 'awkward first date' with Obama
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Apparently it went well.

In Hillary Clinton's new memoir, she describes her secret meeting with then Illinois senator Barack Obama before the 2008 Democratic National Convention as "two teenagers on an awkward first date." The quote comes courtesy of CBS News, which obtained a copy of Hard Choices days before its June 10 release.

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Jordan Valinsky is the lead writer for Speed Reads. Before joining The Week, he wrote for New York Observer's tech blog, Betabeat, and tracked the intersection between popular culture and the internet for The Daily Dot. He graduated with a degree in online journalism from Ohio University.