Unity, N.H., to host Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton

Some staff member was truly inspired to come up with this scheduling idea (and should get a raise as a result).

It was announced today that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would travel to Unity, N.H., on Friday for their first joint public appearance since she exited the presidential race and endorsed him.

The town, tucked in the state's western corner, not only has the perfect name for the message the Obama campaign wants to impress upon disgruntled Clinton supporters across the nation, but it also precisely split its support in New Hampshire's Democratic presidential primary: He got 107 votes, she got 107 votes.

And then there's this demographic tidbit from the 2000 Census, which put the town's population at 1,530 people. Among all ages, for every 100 females there were 101.8 males. But for every 100 females age 18 and older, there were 97.7 males.

So on the gender front, pretty much a draw. The Swamp's Mike Dorning has his take on the Unity unity meeting here.

--Don Frederick

Comments

[S.A.]

Many of us Hillary Clinton supporters are now John McCain supporters. Hillary and Obama campaigning together will not sway us to vote for Obama. Listen to Obama and his arrogance and flawed character, plus lack of leadership. He could not bring himself and his church and pastor together,nor his demo party. He has no principles and changes his position on issues whenever it's good for him. His change slogan means change to his needs. He is now saying he's black to get sympathy. We don't want Obama. Vote John McCain.

[So What]

ho-hum......

[Deb]

Hi Everyone: What say you on a sure win with the "unity ticket"? If the goal is to seat a democrat???? THanks for opinions...

[Nancy Gardner]

Nonsense! I'm a Hillary supporter and I KNOW that a vote for McCain hurts the principles I believe in fervently!

[NinaK]

I sure hope this is being televised. Am sure most of us want to watch this rally.

[ssfee]

What - any democrat who votes for John McCain needs to reevaluate their values and morals - you have to be a greedy, unethical warmonger to want him!

[LAURA RAHAIM]

I would like to do the campaign for Barack Obama that would sure make people realize that not every body who says they have experience (like George Bush) automaticaly should be consider the right Presidential Candidate. I would list the names of every President and person who said they had experience and next to their name I would list what they did with their experience. The first person I would list would be our President, George Bush and "Country in Recession" as product of his experience. Sometime it take more than experience, but good judgment in leading our Country. I beleive that Barack Obama has better judgment than MCain for President of our Country. My campaign would be about determining which candidate has better judgment. Superb judgment is what we want in the next President so that he can make decisions that help progress this country into the next decade. Right now our precious Country is declining when it should be climbing. I beleive that Obam has the vision to do the right thing for all of us, and not for personal interest. I have a hope that things will change soon.

Laura

[barbara brockelman]

I know many Hillary supporters who are behind Obama.
Hey, I know it hurts, but the pain of losing the Supreme Court to the Conservative Right, the loss of a woman's right to choose, continuing to have our democracy morph into the fascist state that the Republicans have been creating, the pain of knowing that Mobil, Chevron and other oil companies have been awarded NO-BID contracts for Iraq's Oil, and that's why so many people had to die in Iraq... how can you possibly vote for McCain? Obama is the only choice.

[joedogjoe]

"Many of us Hillary Clinton supporters are now John McCain supporters"

That's laughable and highly doubtful. You're telling me that as a Democrat, you'd abandon your long-held beliefs about the world vote for McCain?

You'd rather see even more American's continue to die in a 100 year war, see oil drilling in Alaska and off our coasts, see government sponsored corporations continue to gain power over civil liberties ... just to punish Obama?

[Philip Vitelli]

Unfortunately, most of the country will not appreciate the shallowness of this pandering. ballon raising attempt to gauge the sentiment of the American public. The staffer should get a raise??? - if that's the case then the Dem's will lose again because of their stupidity. Hillary and Obama? - As the old lady said on the old commercials Where's the Change?

[Janet Reno]

As a Obama supporter, I don't want Hillary's Race's supporters to join us for change. They are the problem, we only want the open minded supporters and all other can do as SA said and join the war with McBush!!!!!

[RABO]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Blaa blaa blaa blaa blaa, quack, quack, quack.

[P.C.Chapman]

TWIMC,
There is a stark difference between the Democratic and Republican platforms. I advise S.A. to read both before making a choice. If she supported Senator Clinton because of her policies than the choice is obvious. If she supported Senator Clinton because she is a white woman ,well that's another choice.

[United we stand ...]

Well this is worth a chuckle .. aw c'monnn, it cannot all be so serious!! All they need now is a bridge ... we could really work the metaphors here and find us a bell too! : D

[Bob Scofield]

S.A., your comment is absurd. Obama "is now saying he's black to get sympathy?" Umm, he's not saying he's black, he is black. Have you seen photographs of him? "Flawed character"? Who returned from Vietnam to his faithful wife, found her appearance not to his liking because of a disfiguring car accident, and dumped her for a younger woman? The younger woman, the mother of his next set of kids, being the person he called a c-x-x-x in front of reporters. Is your post a joke?

[Mel]

you were never a clinton supporter. A true democrat would see that on the issue Clinton and Obama are 99% the same. Get over it. Viva Obama

[Otto Focus]

What a bunch of kumbya holistic touchy feely crap! Obama is becoming clintonized so quickly that he's becoming Obubba! Now I regret swtching pareties to vote for him.
Looks like were stuck with McCain by default. What a pity, a chance to make history squandered.

[Fareed]

It will be interesting to see these two on the same Team. Those who supported Hillary because they believed she was the Best candidate will follow her lead and support Barack Obama. Vero Possumus.

[c.h.]

Any legitimate supporter of Clinton has no reason not to vote for Obama; they essentially support the same policies. Switch to McCain? That makes absolutely no sense. I don't believe for a second that an independent-minded voter could be so supercilious as to vote based on the cheap excuses outlined above. It's POLICIES people! That's what is important.

[JM]

S.A.,

you say that Obama has no principles and changes his position on issues whenever it's good for him. Since you are a Hillary Clinton supporter, how can you use this logic against him and not yourself? Surely a supporter of Hillary Clinton is a Democrat first? Wouldn't a Democrat support the Democratic candidate for president, regardless of who won the primaries?

His latest campaign ad (and first of the general) is a direct attempt to make himself appear more to white voters by playing up the white part of his heritage and upbringing.

Please be consistent with yourself, and accurate in your quotes if you want to make a reasoned argument.

[Kathy H.]

How could you be a Hilary supporter and then vote for McCorpse? That doesn't even make sense! Obama and Hilary are pretty close on all of the issues.

[yucca]

SA,

I guess you really don't care about what HRC cares about. Certainly McCain doesn't.

[Alan]

So S.A. ,
Help me understand why you are now a McCain supporter after being a Clinton supporter. What could the reasoning be when the agree on about 99A% of the issues. Is it the conservative judges you seek? Or possibly a continuation of the war? I have a few qustions for youi. In any other year, wouild you have suported the winning nominee of your man or woman hadn't won the nomination? Or like many other folks are you just a little fearful of an African American man who came on so strong, organized so many people, raised so much grass roots money that the establishment, you know, the entitled folks, were left just a little bit short. Not by much mind you. The mistake Ms. Clinton's campaigm made, and it was a bit one, is that it underestimated Mr. Obama. BOth campaigns worked hard and their was enough racism and sexism to go around, but nobody got a free pass. If the tables were turned, and your candidate had run a 50 state race including the caucuses, and won by a just a bit, what would you be saying to the Obama supporters that went ahead and supported McCain? Lets not divide and lose again.

[ML]

Vote McCain and say good by to Roe v. Wade. He will fill the bench with conservative judges that will affect the next 100 years.

[Dark Horse]

Beware of Republicans, especially Limbots, posing as disaffected Hillary supporters. They are spamming the forums everywhere.

Hillary supporters will come around when they finish the 5 stages of grief. They will support her leadership in supporting Obama. Might take a couple more months. Or maybe just a couple more weeks of hearing John McBush's atrocious policies. Hillary will lead in defeat as she would have done in victory. To do otherwise will invalidate everything she claims to stand for and relegate her to the dustbin of history.