Can we be friends now?
Sen. John McCain and Pres.-elect Barack Obama met Monday in the 38th floor of the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago at Obama's Presidential Transition Office.
There were no indications coming out of the meeting that Obama was prepared to offer McCain a cabinet position, but rather the meeting was portrayed as an attempt to show a display of unity among the former competitors.
When McCain was asked whether he's be willing to help out Obama while he was President, he simply said "obviously."
This meeting comes two days after Obama met with Sen. Hillary Clinton in Chicago, a meeting that set off speculation that she may be offered the Secretary of State cabinet position.
McCain and Obama also issued a joint statement after their meeting:
"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. 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."