US President-elect Barack Obama and Senator John McCain (R-AZ) have held talks during a meeting in Obama's transition office in Chicago.
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CHICAGO -- President-elect Barack Obama and
former Republican rival John McCain pledged Monday to work together on ways to
change Washington's
"bad habits," though aides to both men said it was unlikely McCain
would serve in an Obama Cabinet.
The
two men met in Obama's transition headquarters in Chicago
for the first time since the Illinois
senator vanquished McCain in the presidential election Nov. 4.
Obama
said they wanted to talk about "how we can do some work together to fix up
the country," and he added that he would offer his own thanks to McCain
"for the outstanding service he's already rendered."
Obama
has said he is likely to invite at least one Republican to join his Cabinet,
but McCain was not expected to be a candidate. The Arizonan is serving his
fourth term in the Senate.
Obama
and McCain sat together for a brief picture-taking session with reporters,
along with Rahm Emanuel, Obama's incoming White House chief of staff, and South
Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, McCain's close friend. Obama and
McCain were heard briefly discussing football, and Obama cracked that "the
national press is tame compared to the Chicago
press."
When
asked if he planned to help the Obama administration, McCain replied,
"Obviously."
After
the meeting, the two issued a joint statement saying: "At this defining
moment in history, we believe that Americans of all parties want and need their
leaders to come together and change the bad habits of Washington so that we can solve the common
and urgent challenges of our time."
"It
is in this spirit that we had a productive conversation today about the need to
launch a new era of reform where we take on government waste and bitter
partisanship in Washington
in order to restore trust in government, and bring back prosperity and
opportunity for every hardworking American family," it said. "We hope
to work together in the days and months ahead on critical challenges like
solving our financial crisis, creating a new energy economy and protecting our
nation's security."
Obama
and McCain clashed bitterly during the fall campaign over taxes, the Iraq War,
and ways to fix the ailing economy. Things got ugly at times, with McCain
running ads comparing Obama to celebrities Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and
raising questions about his relationship with a 1960s-era radical, William
Ayers.
Obama's
campaign, meanwhile, labeled the 72-year-old McCain "erratic" and ran
campaign ads deriding his economic views.
On
Election Night, McCain paid tribute to Obama's historic ascendancy as the
nation's first black president. The two agreed that night to meet after the
election when McCain called Obama to concede defeat.
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