Obama and Clinton Show Democratic Party and Americans Unity
By Nicole Belle Thursday Jun 26, 2008 7:00pm 
Download | play 
Download | play (h/t David)
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama make their first joint appearance since Obama clinched the Democratic nomination at the deeply symbolic location of Unity, New Hampshire. Both set aside the bickering of the primary and praised each other and committed to seeing Obama in the White House come January.
CLINTON: Unity is not only a beautiful place, as we can see; it's a wonderful feeling, isn't it? And I know what we start here in this field in Unity will end on the steps of the Capitol when Barack Obama takes the Oath of Office as our next president.
[snip]
And I believe with all my heart that this election is one of the most important in our nation's history. We've had significant challenges in every generation. And we usually, finally summon up the will to address them. I think Winston Churchill once said Americans always get around to doing the right thing after trying nearly everything else. The country is ready. Now we need the leadership to make it happen. A leader who is a partner, to bring about the change and progress that is so yearned for. So think hard. About how we will fulfill the promise of this great nation. How we will uphold the ideals we cherish and reclaim the country we love. And the answer for me, here in Unity, New Hampshire, is to pledge my support and my hard work and my effort to the next President of the United States, Barack Obama.
[snip]
OBAMA: For sixteen months, Senator Clinton and I have shared the stage as rivals for the nomination, but today, I could not be happier and more honored and more moved that we're sharing this stage as allies to bring about the fundamental changes that this country so desperately needs. As somebody who took the same historic journey as Sen. Clinton. Who watched her campaign and debate. I know first hand how good she is, how tough she is, how passionate she is, how committed she is to the causes that brought all of us here today. When Hillary Clinton gets up in the morning, even in the face of the toughest odds, most vicious attacks, she is doing so with the same motivation that took her and Bill Clinton to sign up for their first campaign in Texas all those years ago. The same passion, that led her to work for the Children's Defense Fund, and caused her to fight for healthcare as First Lady, what has made her one of the finest senators the state of New York has ever seen, what has made her a historic candidate for President: an unyielding desire to improve the lives of ordinary Americans, no matter how difficult that fight may be. I've admired her as a leader. I've learned from her as a candidate. She rocks. She rocks. That's the point I'm trying to make. I am proud to call her a friend and I know how much we need both Bill and Hillary Clinton as a party and as a country in the months and years to come. They have done so much great work.
Login or Register to post comments.
IT'S A TRAP!
Great week for Obama!
He successfully managed to piss the left off. He has put to rest any public disunity with the Clintons.
What angle will the Right use to take him on next week?
This is great news.
I'm not convinced that a Democratic party win will be enough to stop the fascists.
However, as for the election, the combination of these two, whether on the ticket together or not, is very powerful.
McCain has nothing like this. That old relic being used by the right, will be destroyed in November.
One week from today will be the 4th of July commemorating the date that people like John Adams, George Washington, etc. put their lives at risk to make this country free from the yoke of ....... ready ?......The tyrannous King George.
On July the 4th 2008 people of the United States will once more be in that same struggle with their champions Barack Obama and the Democratic Party wrestling another king george ( lower case ) to once again gain our Liberty.
Just thought that was an interesting bit of fact.
President Obama.
Justice Clinton.
I love the way that sounds.
Sigh...yeah, I'll vote for BO in November. At least the Democrats might slow the hemorrhaging of our plundered and imprisoned nation. They'll have to raise taxes to even begin repairing the damage - at which point the repug shitweasels will shriek and holler. The republican party is the party of deadbeats, lawbreakers and evildoers. I'm just afraid that the Democratic Party will continue to be the do-nothing party of aiding and abetting. But I'll vote for BO; hell - I'll try almost anything short of violence. And I'm beginning to think that is a flaw...
Jeon Ji-Yung @ 1:
Best first EVAH!
LMAO
For the first time in years, I feel a glimmer of hope. I do dread the next five months, though.
allies in the fight against........the 4th amendment, etc.
you guys are smarter than me........maybe this is a bad choice....i would like to see a hillary&obama ticket...i think both of these people are smart and tough. there is a lot of policy to modify/change......this is a 8yr. term. healthcare is going to be a bloody battle....hillary wants to take it on.
I have been hearing pros and cons about the "get-together" this afternoon. I didn't see it and only now catching bits and pieces on TV. Hope Obama now puts aside the pandering to Hillary and gets on with his campaign, she can help him by campaigning if they could just find something for Bill to do. He might well help on the campaign trail, if he really wants to, but that is the question. He can really hurt things if he starts his pouting and he only has to say one wrong thing and it is over. I truly believe after Obama is settled in the White House and Hillary is given her rightful place that she should dump Bill. He has been a stone around her neck for way too long. For some reason she stayed tied to him because she thought he could promote her political career. A gamble that did not pay off. I also believe she would have had a good chance at the nomination if she had left Bill at home and gotten someone to run her campaign that really cared about her and not themselves.
Adding Clinton on the ticket will scare away alot of independents. Most people would rather not have another Clinton or Bush in the white house ever again.
Ever.
Did anyone notice how hard David Gregory tried to throe cold water on this party today. He tried his darndest to find flies in the Democratic Unity Soup... and GOT TOTALLY SMACKED DOWN by his own panel of talking heads!
Boy, I sure do hope they can work together to erase the 4th Amendment so we can be safe from the evil-doers! In fact, why not just tear up the whole thing! As long as Obama promises to 'monitor it closely', why do we need any rights at all???
liberAL @ 10:
I will vote for a Democrat over a Republican any day of the week so if Hillary had been the nominee she would have gotten my vote. But my disgust with Bill (not his sex life) Clinton was a major factor why I did not support her in the first place. I think she should flush him like the turd he is.
The DNC Corporation.
Change You Can Believe In...
...If you're incredibly gullible.
Mister Anderson @ 2:
Why should they "use" anything?...He's coming back their way and they're only too happy to have him on their side of FISA, NAFTA and Iran.
Happy Happy.
"Sniper fire" and "hardworking white Americans" drove me away from Clinton. Now the Obama FISA betrayal leaves me completely lost. This is no mere policy issue difference, this cuts to the 4th Amendment marrow. At this point I really do not know what to do. I cannot vote for Barr, he's only good on the civil liberties piece. And, while Nader's issues list looks fine, he is seriously off his meds.
McCain? Right. Right.
I heart the headline......
ah yes, quite the $how
slick, staged, and syrupy sweet
i still wonder what sort of "promises" obama had to make in order for hillary to embrace him
we know that he is going to pay her. anything else?
Who cares...gas in mexico is $2.90/gal...my family and I are safe from the terrozists and your preznit, the economy here is booming...llike is good and the second storm of this year's hurricane season is Boris...:) :) :)
...shit shouls say life is good in post 22 damn the tequila is fun
... she is doing so with the same motivation that took her and Bill Clinton to sign up for their first campaign in Texas all those years ago.
Umm...did he really say this? Doesn't he mean "Arkansas"??
karl @ 10:
Well, kinda...
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/06/2008624202053652281.html
Fuck you Bill and Hillary, you blew your chance and millions of your own money. You had your fun no go earn more millions the old fashioned way, GET A FUCKING HONEST JOB. Oh wait it's impossible to make millions if honesty and actual work are involved, oh well just fuck off and go away then. Bye, bye now.
Mickxotic @ 6:
"The tree of liberty must be from time to time watered with the blood of tyrants" Hey I know the quote is off a little but you get the point.
Obama needs to address some real issues, and this lovely event is fine, but both of them need to do their day jobs some of the time. I desperately want to hear the words "constitution" and "laws" and "accountable." I guess that's too much to ask, because the media won't cover some of the most important hearings in the house and senate due to this horse race thingy. This isn't change at all--just more BS.
Everyone who falls for the edward bernaisian propaganda smell-fest deserves the fascism we have and the more we are going to get. you fools. all of you. It makes me want to go out in the back yard , dig a hole, squat and squeeze a fat juicy smelly one to remind me of what will be around for years to come. Wake up sheeple. the definition for Government -to control your mind. you want the war stopped?, stop paying your wage slave taxes and storm the pentagon and burn it down. you want all this spying stopped.. mass a hundred thousand people at nsa headquarters and take it over and burn it down. you want to stop the corporations from polluting our water, our air and our food. De-charter every last one of the f**kers and sell off all there property and give the proceeds to the people who have been killed and maimed by their actions. How many trillions of dollars have we, you, me everyone willfully given to these black magic conjurers to bring our brand of peace and democracy to the world. you want to be a rebel ...grow your own food..quit your wage slave job and create something that will sustain you mentally, physically and spiritually. Do this and the system will die. I see zombie faces on the metro trains in DC everyday. why? because this is what we have been taught in the 12+ years of compulsory indoctrination the we call the education system. wake up...
CowBoy Bob in Austin @ 13:
Yeah, I seen it. He wanted to plug his "sources" that there was still a ton of disunity and all of this was for show. Who in the hell cares about the big donors anymore? Howard Dean worked around them in 2006, and Obama has all but finished them off in 2008 except to pay off Clinton's debt. If they don't like taking a back seat to the American people then they can be floor mats of the Republican party.
Capt. Bat Hussein Guano @ 26:
If you have so much hostility toward these two, how do you feel about the real criminals who have been stealing your tax dollars since the raygun years?
Or are you one of those 28 percenters?
Johnny2Bad @ 16:
Pretty much. Well said... sadly.
I Thought It Would Not Happen
I am sitting at my desk at home watching footage of today's Unity rally On Larry King Live, I wish everyone could see Chris Shays' face. It is similar to a deer's expression in a car's headlights. Every Republican interviewed on CNN and MSNBC did not want to see this happen. They would probably throw in the towel if they were on the same ticket.
First off, don't let it be told that this Unity factor does not matter. It does, and the Republicans are scared as hell to see it happen. When you consider 36 million highly charged voters putting the first Black man and the first woman into the highest office in our country, you might have a problem trying to stop them. Don't forget, we are in a time when our country are ready to throw the Republicans to the curve. Every last one of them, including congressman Shays.
The polls, especially Gallup, has the race close. It's not. Early on, the only polls tracking the match seem to have a history of releasing favorable numbers for the John McCain and the Republicans. Gallup along with CNN, USAtoday, Rasmussen, Zogby have found a way to control the averages. They do this by releasing polls under one name and then releasing another poll under two names. (etc. Gallup, Gallup/CNN, CNN/USAtoday, Gallup/USAtoday) It has already been shown, as soon as other polls outside of this conservative group start to release polls, Barack Obama has a double digit lead. For now, it looks good for the Democrats. I hope they keep it that way.
Joseph
Joe Tseng @ 31:
Oh please don't get me wrong, I am no 28 %er. I wanted kucinnich on day one. The Hague is to good for BushCo and the neocon cabal. And those Repukes started stealing our money long befroe saint ronnie reared his clueless head. Bill Clinton did more harm than good to the progressive cause my friend. 2 prime examples. FCC rule changes allowing the scum Murdoch to pollute the 4th estate and NAFTA, selling the working backbone of my country down the river and out to sea. I hope that clears up any confusion about my political leanings. P.S. Hang the rich.
We are going to crush McSame!
Eloquent and intelligent.
Hope the majority of Americans can relate to it and vote Dems.
Cheers.
BurbSooner @ 24:
Someone needs a history lesson. Texas is correct.
I need to ask a question about this rally today and what I heard afterwards on MSNBC ( I think??)
I think it was Chris Matthews and Howard FIneman talking about the rally today and what was going on behind the scenes etc.... and he said something about there were still discussions going on about how much air time Hillary would get at the convention. Then, if I heard him correctly he said that Obama didn't want her name brought up in the roll call or that anyone voted for her or she had pledge delegates etc. It reminded me as if he was trying to wipe out the fact that she had run at all. If she has suspended her campaign and hasn't quit, then doesn't she have the right to have her name and delegates counted etc as part of the convention? Why should the first time a woman has run and received almost as many people voting for her be treated as if the whole thing never existed by not allowing her name or votes or delegates to be counted?
My guesses: President B Obama, Sec of State H Clinton, Sec of Def J Biden,
Att Gen J Edwards, Sec HHS B Richardson, CIA Director C Hagel,
Nat Sec Advisor C Powell, VP N Pelosi. Yes, the All-Star Administration.
Get ready, world.
Jeon Ji-Yung @ 1:
I agree. You know the feeling when you know you're being conned, but don't know how? Call it instinct. I personally think the negatives far outweigh the positives. And hubby hiding in the background in the shadows is the clue. It's like the look you get when the person you're talking to doesn't look you in the eye. The other clue : The plots, devious schemes and scripted stunts in the recent past. Watch your back Barack.
24 BurbSooner
Bill and Hillary Clinton were in Texas in 1972 campaigning for George McGovern.
mystic @ 40:
Without the support of Democrats like the Clintons and their supporters, Obama could very well lose in November. The party needs to be unified. Many Americans seem to vote against their interests, and the right wing and MSM have successfully turned "liberal" into a dirty word (although progressive pride is finally coming back, and liberal ideals never went away).
I understand the distrust toward the Clintons. But do you really want a repeat of the '88, 2000, and 2004 elections?
Joe Tseng @ 31:
Obviously you are an ignorant person! Stop the language of the ignorant get a job, go to school go get some education before and stop saying such idiotic things... Start with a HISTORY BOOK!Go to the Gym to burn off some hostility..beware ugly anger like this can kill you...
Johnny2Bad @ 16:
RNC has all the answers if you 300k a yr.........
P.U.M.A.
_Peoploe if we continue to hear that Obama is doing ugly things behind the scenes in regards to Mrs.l Clinton..Well he should loose her supporters votes..It will be a cold day in hell before I vote for this man if he tries to erase her excistance in the campaigne
Sorry..He won because of the self serving delegate, super delegates...She won the peoples vote! and that counts more to me.. Why are we even voting anyway if just a few get to decide! Obama should be greatfull for Mfrs. Clinton's graciousness!
Rev T Redlights @ 39:
Everyone ezcept Clinton is a loser.
midwestdem @ 35:
Party Unity My Ass!
Obama will never win (thank god)!
Slowbum.. There is no one else but Clinton..that Obama may be the next president but that he was the peoples choice no he was not...The man will prove himself and you will see!
Obama says and will do anything to win..he says what his audience wants to hear and moves on to the next and says what those want to hear. he keeps contradicting himself for you can not put the mail boy as a CEO of a company...His experience is just that
a mail room boy in comparisons... We are letting a man we do not know, who says change but never tells us what change
, empty vessel..He never will make it unless Clinton helps him and he knows it...The lady has been indeed very gracious, warm and kind hearted.n The man will win because people are tiered of Bush, but not that he has the capacity! I have a feeling we will all be sorry..So saying everyone except Clinton are words that you will eat while drinking Obama's koolaid who will choke you with all the bull in it! But I wish for our country the best and May God Bless American and its wonderful people, even you SlowBum who I think you are dreaming...but you will wake up soon and then???
SlowBurn @ 49:
let's put grievances and differences apart. this next election is all about winning not only the presidency, but both houses to support the moves that he will have to make if this country has a chance. with that in mind, obama needs to select hillary as his running mate and then run the gop into the ground. they need to be embarrassed and many need to be imprisoned.
no longer a proud american @ 52:
we think alike..............into the dirt........
Dr. (Fast Eddie) Matt @ 5:
I can top that--Justice Russell Feingold
Yeah, let's get all excited about a guy who has probably served all of 300 days in the US Senate, 55 days in the IL senate for a couple of years, and has never held a full time job in his life. This is the guy you think is going to change the world? She at least is loaded with experience. Can't say as much for him. And catch the latest report done by the Boston Globe relating to his experience in Chicago with the major slumlords. Yep, this is the guy who is going to change the world. Give me a break.
Until they (the elite-robber barons, the puppets and the puppet masters, Fill in the blank__________) work as a wage slave as all of us have for a number of years toiling in multiple mindless jobs and giving way our own sovereignty willingly to others who have been chosen to guide your waking life until you die. Only then will I entertain the thought of giving them a glimpse of credibility.
*gag*
I hoped for a total break from the past , something real , a rescue from the depths of the low Bush and his band of lunatics brought us , but now with Obama's position on FISA and his kissing Clinton ass as if she and Cigar Bill were still in power ... I can see we are in for more of the same old same old , he is an American politician after all , not the "savior "we hoped for .
Could it get any phonier than this love fest?
These two showing the world about unity and working together.
Clinton is a Washington insider and Obama is going to be changed into one soon!
Meanwhile back in reality the Dumbocrats roll over again for the Bush crime family and help get FISA through the house and positioned to be rammed down our throats next week by the senate. Mr. Obama saw fit to do nothing! and even went as far as to say he supported it because he would choose America's security first. Did you even look at the Bill Mr. Obama? or did you just do what your Korporate lackeys told you to do? Either way, Shame on you. What happened to change we can believe in?
Wake up people! we're finished as a country. Our two party political system has morphed into one gigantic Fascist Korporate rubber stamp machine. Of the people, By the people and for the people has now been replaced by ....Of the Korporations, By the Korporations and for the Korporations.
Our Constitution is now an outdated set of rights that don't fit their agenda so they are slowly changing it to suit their purpose and taking away all those quaint little constitutional rights the founding fathers saw fit to bestow upon us. After all we don't need these rights because the government is smarter than us and knows whats best for us. Just look at your reps voting records and see how often he/she votes for you and how often he/she votes for Korporate Amerika , OUCH!
Obama and Hillary would show more unity with Americans and America if they were at their jobs working to defeat FISA.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.... they kissed and made up. Oh how sweet.
They're still elected US Senators and they should have BOTH been back in DC fighting against the passage of the latest FISA abomination. They need to get their sh!t in a pile and their priorities straight, and PDQ.
They were my 4th and 5th choices for nominee.
Gary @ 12:
Got that straight!
I don't know of one person (independents mostly) who ever wants to see another Clinton or Bush ever again! And most of these folks have already made up their minds to vote for Obama. Outside of the democratic base, everyone is sick of the Bush/Clinton era. Time to move on; especially with such a large list of outstanding VP choices like Wesley Clark available, (who have a much wider general election appeal).
Obama has now begun throwing his supporters under the bus. The MSM says he's moving to the "center" like they always do for the GE, but it's not the center it's the right. And this is in keeping with his own past and voting records.
I don't want Clinton in SCOTUS; I think that would be Obama's way of getting her out of politics, where she is so powerful, and putting her in a position in which she cannot threaten him. She needs to be where she can be part of the action; someday to SCOTUS, but I think he wants to put her out of his way before she can take away his second term.
I do think he wants to make it as though she has never existed and that means making it as though her voters have not existed. He thinks we have nowhere else to go.
The Dem coalition now has no room for its base. It includes traditional Black voters (who may be voting against their own interests), the young (who may be voting against their own interests), and the professional elite (many of whom are center right like Obama). The latter may well want a Republican Light like Obama, and others will go along because they think he will tack left if elected. This is so unlikely.
He has split the Dems and believes he can now conquer because the 18 million (at least half of the Dem electorate) who wanted Clinton will vote for him because we "have" to. As his supporters say with open disdain, "Where else can they go?" They are obviously parroting Obama, as they did with their vicious smears during the primaries.
Obama wants to nix the roll call vote at the convention, just like he nixed the MI and FL primary redos, because she might well win the nomination if that took place. She surely would have won if the MI and FL primaries were redone. He was eager to have all those voters disenfranchised, and now is eager to prevent the delegates she won from revealing how strong her support is among the Dem wing of the Dem party.
The Dems have moved away from their base and their basic values and now openly and officially embrace being a Republican sub-party. They have thrown half the party out and say they don't need those values or those people to win.
I have always supported the party, period. But if they think I'm worthy of their contempt and don't need (or apparently want) my vote to win, fine.
Let them do it.
AngryAmerican @ 43:
Thanks man, it's good to know some one can read between the lines correctly.
Capt. Bat Hussein Guano @ 26:
Nice....you kiss your mother with that mouth? So much for party unity.
BO caved on FISA
BO thinks SOME child rapists should be executed.
Gun law
etc.
BO and his wife as well are just the new incarnation of the Clintons and that is becoming more and more apparent. It'll take a while, but Obama mania is going to be seen for what it is: mania.
I'm voting for Ralph Nader. In a democracy you vote for the person who best represents your views and interests. The dems are not representing me right now but everything that Nader stands for is what I stand for.
MarcyJ @ 65:
{Deleted, SiteMonitor}
Joe Tseng @ 31:
Last time I checked, the Bush idiot love fest was down to 23 percent.
There sure are a lot of angry, mean-spirited, unpleasant people posting.
68 Meat Says: There sure are a lot of angry, mean-spirited, unpleasant people posting.
___________________________________________________________________
You should think more positively of yourself.
There is no possible way that Obama doesn't know about the documentary "The Clinton Cronicals". If only 1% of this documentary is true, he should be shaken in his boots to associate with them. While Billy was Governor of Arkansas, billions in Columbian drugs were brought in through Mena Airport, Arkansas. The Clintons are associated with over forty suspicious deaths (including two 14 year old boys who seen something they shouldn't have). Money was being laundered through the Govenors office for election promises. Bills brother was quoted as saying "Bill has a nose like a vacumn cleaner" when it came to coke. These people are extremely dangerous. I liked the Clintons untill I researched this documentary. NeoCons and NeoLibs have the same agenda, and it really stinks.
We have an Oil Crisis. Right around the corner is what may be the worst Economic crisis we have ever seen. The month of June was the worst on Wall Street since the Great Depression. If that doesn't give one pause for thought, nothing will.
Want to rethink Obama? We can still have Hillary.
It IS up to US.All we have to do is let it be known that Hillary backers are NOT going to vote for Obama under any condition. Thats all it takes. If we don't play thier game with them, there is no game and the candidate that most Democrats cast their votes for in the Primary will be the next President of the United States!
In this time of crisis, we need the Best.
We need Experience. We need Hillary and Bill.
We can't afford to take a chance on a kid who still needs training wheels on his bike.
Login or Register to post comments.