Getting your player ready...
CLEVELAND — Platform writers for Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton worked side-by- side Saturday as the Democratic Party developed a policy statement to promote nominee-in-waiting Obama and keep Clinton backers involved.
The 20-member panel heard Friday and Saturday morning from scores of party regulars, policy experts and hard-luck Americans before starting a draft, which goes before the full platform committee next Saturday in Pittsburgh.
The committee, meeting through today, reviewed a 44-page document principally written by Karen Kornbluh, who has worked on Obama’s Senate staff.
