Obama: Hillary Clinton would be an ‘excellent president’

PANAMA CITY — President Barack Obama says he thinks Hillary Rodham Clinton would be “an excellent president.”

Clinton is expected to launch her long-anticipated second run for president on Sunday with an online video.

Obama said Saturday that was a formidable candidate against him when they competed for the Democratic nomination in 2008.

He said she became a great supporter of his in the general election that year and that she was an outstanding secretary of state during his first term.

“I think she would be an excellent president,” Obama said.

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