Campaigning In A Town Called "Unity" Doesn't Make You Unified
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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are going to have their first joint appearance since Clinton dropped out of the race. The site is Unity, New Hampshire. It's symbolic of what the Democrats want to achieve, of course, but something is interfering with the symbolism. And that something is the Clintons:
People close to Clinton are frustrated that the Obama campaign has yet to propose a way to help her retire her campaing debt, while some close to Obama think the Clintons are being sore losers who won't go out of their way to praise Obama.
A case in point was Bill Clinton's appearance Sunday at the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
During his address, the former president mentioned Obama only once, and that was to praise Obama for supporting one of programs begun during Clinton's administration.
"I was delighted to read that Senator Obama said he would reinstitute the COPS program," Clinton told the conference.
And when Hillary Clinton made her first public appearance this weekend since her concession speech, she never even mentioned Obama's name.
The closest the New York senator came to citing Obama during her speech at a Bronx high school's graduation was to say, "No one five years ago, or four years ago, could have conceived that an African-American and a woman would be competing for the president of the United States."
Don't think that the Clintons' supporters won't take note of this. They pay attention and the lack of enthusiasm that the former First Couple is showing for the new Democratic nominee most assuredly can trickle down to Clinton supporters.
The vast majority of those supporters will back Barack Obama. But they may not do much more than vote. Combine that with the supporters who may either stay home or vote for John McCain and you see why this may well be a closer race than many people believe it will be.
sorry,I know this an important election but sometimes the Clinton's and Obama saga is hillaryous. Obama is as ridiculously funny as he could be dangerous.The best thing for McCain is for Hillary to follow him around everywhere and help him as much as she can. The look on her face when she says his name is priceless.ha ha ha unity ha ha ha. Ya know Bill will do his part ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.popcorn