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Clinton Takes In The View on Monday

Ex-prez likely to get warmer reception than McCains did last week

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 19, 2008 12:25 PM CDT

(Newser) – Bill Clinton is scheduled to appear Monday on The View, where he hopes to get a more friendly reception than John and Cindy McCain did Sept. 12. The GOP candidate and his wife are still fuming about their treatment, the New York Post reports, with the wife of the Republican candidate saying the ABC show “picked our bones clean.”

The girls will likely be more welcoming for the former Democratic president. Save for Elisabeth Hasselbeck, all the co-hosts lean left, and Whoopi Goldberg—who asked John McCain if she "needed to be worried about being a slave again" in response to his views on the Supreme Court—was friendly with the Clintons during their time in the White House.

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Barack Obama meets with former President Bill Clinton in New York, Sept. 11, 2008. (AP Photo)

Former President Bill Clinton is pals with "View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg, and three of the other four hosts also lean to the left, seemingly guaranteeing a friendly welcome in his Monday appearance. (AP Photo)

This handout photo provided by ABC shows Michelle Obama on the set of "The View," Wednesday, June 18, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo)

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