Democrats set unity event
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will take the next big step in unifying the Democratic Party next Friday, campaigning together for the first time, Obama's campaign announced this morning.
UPDATE: In a conference call with reporters, Obama communications director Robert Gibbs declined to provide details of the joint event -- even which city it will be in -- saying that the logistics are still being worked out. The previous day, the two are scheduled to appear in Washington with some of Clinton's major financial supporters.
The two senators went at it for nearly a year and a half before Obama clinched the nomination June 3 and Clinton formally conceded and endorsed him on June 7.
John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, is aggressively targeting Clinton supporters, particularly women aggrieved with how she was treated.
Today, Obama also plans to discuss the economy with a group of Democratic governors at the Chicago History Museum, then fly on to Jacksonville, Fla, for a media event to bash McCain for changing positions and now calling for lifting the federal ban on offshore drilling.



"John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, is aggressively targeting Clinton supporters, particularly women aggrieved with how she was treated."
But he is totally quiet on how women would be treated during his administration...and all you have to do is look back at his terrible record on women's health, birth control and abstinence bills on which he has consistently been on the WRONG SIDE. And that doesn't even get into his intention to stack the Supreme Court with anti-women choices who will eliminate OUR choices. Hillary supporters.....she would be ashamed of your support of J. McSame. She did not run her campaign for you to jump off and support an anti-woman Republican.
Be a real Democratic, Independent, or Republican intelligent woman voter and study and learn the record of McShame.......if you then still want to consider supporting him....then your support for Sen Clinton was hollow !!!!!
Rome is burning and the Senate is having hearings on horse racing or investigating the Patriots, etc, etc.
I wanted to vote for Mr. Obama but I swear I cannot vote for a democrat with the House and Senate democrat. Our Congress has lost their way and because of their inability to focus on the important things, this country is on the fast tract to fall completely on its face. We are truly in the saddest state this country has been in since the depression only this time the fall is going to be bigger.
Did my 6 year-old niece write this? Stay on topic and give me facts in order!
obama is a loser; i hope he doesn't win
Amen #6 and Obama is not a loser #4...you are a loser for not backing why you would even post your opinion and support McCain that is going to support a war with no justication,kills millions of patriotic soldiers and innocent Iraqis, and costs Americans billions. I think McCain is the biggest problematic person when it comes to womens rights and the war. He supported the war and has acknowledged he will continue the war if in office. This will affect our economy as a whole...rich and the poor. This is not about Republican or Democrats anymore people..it's about our economy....our country's future. We can't afford to have Bush's older brother in the office practicing the same tactics that put us in a recession. Hillary and Obama would be a great combination for the White House. Hillary is for women's right and healthcare. Obama is for ending the war and economics. They are both intelligent lawyers with positive initiatives that are going to do great for this country
Rebecca, please get your facts straight. The Patriots investigation was being spear-headed by a Republican from PA (Arlen Spector) and he has withdrawn it. He brought it because he's angry that the NFL network gets the good games and his shares in Comcast will suffer for lack of advertising $$$ during those big games. Total self interest. That and our beloved Pat's beat them silly. =)
Our economy is bad b/c of an ill-conceived war in Iraq (started by Republicans), and failed economic policies of President Bush that were started when we had a Republican led Congress.
And I was just in Rome on my honeymoon. Not one building was on fire...
Go Obama!
Watch out McCain has a Temper, We don't need and better not get a President with a Temper, he will knock all the Statues over in the White House!
And pull down the drapes!!!!!
I was for Clinton, still deciding!!!!!!!!!!
Well put, Pro-Pro!
McClone is anti-woman, anti-choice, anti-human rights and pro-war. No thinking person -- male or female -- should even consider voting for him.
guinevere....gotta love how you call someone who is "pro-life"...."anti-choice".....why don't you call yourself a pro-abrotionist....that is truly what you are.....or is abortion a dirty word even to you?
Oh please. This is just a stunt by the Obama campaign to overshadow his recent refusal to accept public financing. That they don't even have a date for the "tour" makes that really obvious.
you liberals out there - keep in mind that the Democrate's have majority in the house and senate and absolutely nothing they promised would happen happened: funding the Iraq war, economic rebound,
Obama is for ending the Iraq war, however, he does not intend to bring the troops home; he is moving them to Afghanistan. Obama's war will not cost any less than the Republican's war - it will affect our economy, rich and poor.
And where do you get the idea he can do anything for the economy? His economic plan is vague and mathematically questionable. Besides, he's made it clear that he doesn't understand when he rails about Exxon-Mobil being responsible for gas prices. Exxon - Mobil's continued sucess and re-investment is vital to our economy, almost everyone with a mutual fund owns Exxon - Mobil, as a public corporation they must try to maximize profits, they are big employers and consumers, and they are entitled to their 4% profit margin, which is no windfall. Would everyone prefer we had no American oil companies?
Unfortunately for this misogynist country, Mr. Obama is lacking knoledge and experience and Mr. McCain is a crackpot.
They all suck I wouldn't waste my time voting for any of em
CLINTON DID NOT CONCEDE!...Watch the entire speech on www.hillaryclinton.com & you will see she suspended the campaign.
The DEM nominee is NOT finalized until the August Denver convention at which time Barack or Hillary could be chosen because NEITHER got the 2112 required from pledged delegates. Although Barack & the media are being misogynist in terms of unfair & inaccruate reporting, the SAME SUPERS that supported Hillary can SWITCH back to her in August - if Obama is vetted [now by Mc Cain] & the TONY REZCO information comes out about his several counts of guilty as to politicians, among which are the governor of Illinois & more to come....Rezco's wife purchased the side yard to Obama's home [which he & his family have exclusive use & occupancy of - because, according to Obama, they planted grass, shrubs & put a fence around it)....Wouldn't we all love to be so lucky to obtain a huge plot of land if we just planted grass, shrubs & put a fence around it - so we could use it indefinitely?
Where is Rev. Wright - whom Obama said he COULD NOT dismiss from his database of spritual advisors because he is like an uncle/////only to drop him like a hotcake when Wright said that Obama kept him in the basement of the venue where he later went upstairs to announce he was running for president...to say nothing of his racist, sexist & horrendous accuations about 9/11 & all....WHERE IS THE REV. WRIGHT NOW?....
Obama would not wear an American flag pin & I could care less about that; however, he gave a speech how it was not necessary & why he would not wear it - only to later change his mind - under severe pressure....
Obama stopped the debates in their tracks when FINALLY he was asked the hard questions...He could never keep up with Hillary in a debate - & used male chauvanist remarks to compete with her...
When asked in a debate what his best accomplishment was as a U.S. Senator of less than 2 years, Obama said he helped to pass an ethics bill so that lobbyists could no longer pay for their dinners. The panel questioner added, "only meals sitting down"......WOW - what a great leader.....who never held a meeting for the committee he chairs & a response from him was, "I was doing somthing else - running for President".......GREAT!
Obama insulted Hillary when he said as First Lady she "served tea" to world leaders & that hardly qualified for international experience.....He, the 2-8 year old who lived overseas tried to insinuate HIS international experience was more important...because he lived overseas....
Obama dissed "old Washington" & the epitome of "old Washington", especially white males who could not see a woman get the presidency if they failed at it (Kennedy, Kerry, Dean, Richardson, Edwards, etc.) backed Obama ...OLD WASHINGTON will change with Obama at the helm...HE SEEMS TO HAVE CAUGHT ON QUITE WELL WITH THE OLD WASHINGTON game & crowd when he ignored West Virginia & spend only 1 day in that state between March & the primary on May 13th...He was too busy courting the supers in Washington & he & the white males he courted were photographed endlessly a few days before the WV primary.....The people of WV were cited as "uneducated whites" & "prejudiced" as an explanation for Obama's HUGE (40 point loss).....NO - that's whining & untrue!!!!!.....West Virginia was DISSED BIG TIME by Obama who opened 11 offices in March in WV & then failed to show up to court those voters......HILLARY WON BECAUSE BILL & CHELSEA were on the ground running while HRC was in PA & then HRC spent 6/7 days after PA courting the voters & visiting coal mines, small towns, hollers, towns & villages......KERRY MADE THE SAME MISTAKE IN 2004 of ignoring WV & we saw what happened there: he lost a state where there is a DEM governor & TWO Dem U.S. Senators (hardly a red state)......I WAS THERE ; I know about what happened & I spoke to the people & worked with them for 5 days///////
KY followed suit with WV - not because they were prejudiced - but because Barack dissed them...TELL ME THERE IS NO PREJUDICE IN IOWA, ND, & other "predominately WHITE STATES"................................The self-proclaimed unifier BARACK says that it's a racist thing to say that 91% of African-American voters in SC voted for an African-American guy!!!!...EVEN JESSE JACKSON said that Bill Clinton's accurate remark that Jesse won SC & lost the nomination was historical.....
I was truly impressed by Barack speech in 2004; however, his misleading statements (i.e. that he was RIGHT ABOUT THE WAR FROM THE BEGINNING - when BARACK DID NOT VOTE AGAINST THE WAR - but, as a surrogate to Kerry [on whose campaign I worked lots], he said he "didn't know" how he would have voted had he been in the U.S. Senate at the time].....GIVE ME A BREAK (to quote Bill Clinton as to why Barack has been given one bye after another & not vetted - all in the fear of being called a racist).....
Obama admitted that he didn't detach from Rev. Wright earlier because he hadn't heard the racist, sexist & anti-American words - that he claimed were "taken out of context'" [until Rev. Wright's famous trifecta weekend of interviews with Bill Moyers, the NAACP & the National Press Corps - where he laid out that Barack "had to do" what he did & that Barack is a "politician"............Clearly, it was only when Barack was "outed" by Wright that he didn't tell it like it was - that he chose to LOOK AT THE ENTIRE LECTURES/SERMONS of hate & then - he denounced Rev. Wright - who has not been seen/heard from since.....HMMMMM...
Barack left his church (which had volted him into his IL State Senate seat via votes & money - along with REZCO)....with a caveat that he felt that the media was bothering the worshippers....It would not surprise anyone who is objective to see Obama re-join that church & re-connect with Rev. Wright if he gives up his aspiration to become a national leader in the future if he loses this election cycle.
Barack is a trained lawyer (although neither he NOR his wife are able to practice law in IL because they are not registered as current attorneys)...Therefore, he KNOW FULL WELL that IF his parents DID get "married", it was a void marriage because his father was married with children in Kenya. His father was about 26 & his mom was 17 when she got pregnant by his father.....Hey, these things happen - but TELL THE TRUTH...Actually, the truth about a dual abandonment by his never-married parents would make his rise to fame even more amazing & respected.....PRODUCE THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE!!!!
The web has lots of false & demeaning things on it about all sides...but Barack refuses to give the public a copy of his birth certificate - so that actually creates MORE suspicion...Was he born in Hawaii to those parents he cited? If so, what's the big secret?......
WHY IS BARACK HIDING HIS HALF-BROTHERS & SISTERS from Africa from the public (his father's other children)?....He only cites his mother's other child - his half-sister who lives in HAWAII....
Where is Barack's grandmother (that he threw under the bus when he cited her as a racist - only to further explain it with another racist statement, "That's how white people think" - when ignorantly explaining that all whites go to the other side of the street when confronted by a group of black youths....TRY DOING THAT IN AN AMERICAN CITY!....HOW CRAZY!!!....Yes, some older folks & younger folks would avoid certain types of people...including African-American youths - [especially if they had a prior attack as in Barack's grandmother's case]; however, many of us live in diverse neighborhoods & work in a diverse workplace & we don't do what Barack thinks is "usual".....
Do "usual" confused teens do coke, pot & alcohol?
People worried whether or not Bill Clinton inhaled pot...Barack admits he did coke, alcohol & pot as a teen in a private HS that his (albeit white) grandparents sent him to as a child.....Barack says that he was "confused" in a white society....HMMM...Look at the photos of his school.....Will he do coke as a president in a predominately white environment - because he is not comfortable...? Where are his HS friends, his college friends?
Barack talks of Columbia & Harvard....Why does he discount his Occidental College days at school before he transferred to Columbia (which school)?
Barack says he was the president of the Harvard Law Review as though that was the same as the prestigious EDITOR.....misleading??!!!
Did Barack really get an offer to join a large or medium law firm after his graduation from law school - or did he take the community service job because he had no other offers - or because he wanted to prep for a life in politics?...It's no big deal - unless he is misleading people to think he had a choice......DID THE FIRM HE SPENT THE SUMMER BEFORE HIS THIRD YEAR OF LAW SCHOOL OFFER HIM A JOB (maybe not - because that's where Michelle worked).....LET'S HEAR THE TRUTH!!!!.....It is not a secret that very few law firms would give an offer to minorities - even at that time......SO LET'S HEAR THE REAL TRUTH....
THE VETTING SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED AT THE HANDS OF THE DEM PARTY or IN THE DEBATES....It didn't...............the anti-Clintons, the misogynists, the slanted media & those racists who felt it was time to turn a new leaf (perhaps in an effort to "prove" they were not prejudiced - as in the case of a former KKK member who endorsed Barack)..........all helped to create a bizarre situation where NEITHER candidate in the DEM PARTY got the required pledged delegates...and somehow Barack & Company, in conjunction with the media CROWNED him the winner - along with 1/2 for FL & MI - based on votes he never received/earned - while taking away earned votes from HILLARY (who won 73 pledged delegates in MI - but only would receive 1/2 of 69 - while BARACK would get 1/2 of 59 delegates he did not earn - & could have easily gone to HILLARY if there was a re-vote - which OBAMA REFUSED TO DO.....................
SO - it's all about the FINAL DECISION of supers in AUGUST - (not JUNE)...HILLARY DID NOT CONCEDE & SHE WAS PRESSURED FOR MONTHS TO LEAVE A RACE - even though males(with much fewer than her 18,000,000 votes & 125ish shy of beating Obama on pledged delegates) were allowed to go to the convention....(e.g. Kennedy & others)...
THE DEM RULES ALLOW THE SUPERS TO DO WHATEVER THEY WANT UP UNTIL THE LAST MOMENT...Let's hope they do the MATH:
HILLARY WON DEM/BLUE STATES & all the large ones (except IL); she won SWING STATES BY LARGE MARGINS (Obama didn't)....Obama won RED STATES that will be Mc Cain's in the November election....
IF THE DEM PARTY CHOOSES TO GO FORWARD WITH OBAMA WHO HAS HURT WOMEN & MINORITIES WITH HIS RACIST & SEXIST STATEMENTS, Mc Cain will win - because the powers that be did not listen to the grassroots people on the ground.....but rather the "usuals" who have lost almost every Dem presidential race in the last 40 years .........................
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