{"id":15936,"date":"2008-06-20T10:10:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T14:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/15936.html"},"modified":"2008-06-20T10:10:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T14:10:03","slug":"step-by-step-obama-and-clinton-come-together-for-common-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/step-by-step-obama-and-clinton-come-together-for-common-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Step by step, Obama and Clinton come together for common goal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hillary Clinton’s gracious, classy concession speech in DC a couple of weeks ago went a long way towards promoting some intra-party unity, but to her enormous credit, the senator is just getting started. Clinton vowed to work her heart out to help Obama, and it’s clear she meant it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s campaign announced Friday that he will campaign with former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton next week, a step toward unifying a fractured Democratic Party after a bruising primary fight.<\/p>\n

Obama’s campaign said in a brief e-mail that said the two senators and former opponents will campaign together for the first time on Friday, June 27, and more details would be forthcoming.<\/p>\n

A day earlier, Obama and Clinton also plan to meet in Washington with some of her top contributors in an effort to calm donors who remain frustrated with Obama’s presidential campaign. The former first lady will introduce Obama to her financial backers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s worth remembering that this can’t be easy, on a personal level, for Clinton. For the last few months, she wanted to share a stage with Obama, not for a campaign rally, but for a 23rd debate. Clinton was a “team player” in her concession speech and said all the right things, but it would have been easy for her to take some time to readjust to post-campaign life and decline invitations from the Obama campaign, at least for a while.<\/p>\n

But Clinton is doing the opposite. What’s more, next Friday’s event isn’t an isolated gesture.
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\nLate yesterday afternoon, Clinton, as she’s done before, urged<\/a> her top fundraisers “in no uncertain terms to throw their weight” behind Obama.<\/p>\n

“I am going to do everything I can to ensure victory for Senator Obama,” Hillary told her fundraisers on the call. “I am asking each of you to do the same. I really believe we’ve got to see a Democrat sworn into the White House this January.”<\/p>\n

The call, which [Greg Sargent] was able to listen to in its entirety, left little doubt that Hillary was unequivocally signaling to her top financial supporters — who are being actively courted by Obama — that the time had come for them to do their part in getting him elected President.<\/p>\n

Hillary added that “the stakes are too high” to do anything but “do all we can to elect Barack Obama President,” in order to “turn the economy around” and “protect a woman’s right to choose.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As long as we’re on the subject, I just wanted to add one thing. There’s a new email that’s been making the rounds, encouraging liberal, Democratic Clinton supporters to support conservative, Republican John McCain, and responding to the Roe question.<\/p>\n

The email argues, “Please do NOT threaten me with ‘Roe vs Wade.’ Been there, done that. Eight years of Ronald Reagan followed by four years of George HW Bush and we still have our reproductive rights.”<\/p>\n

I’d just add two points. One, women’s rights extend beyond just Roe<\/a>. Two, there are four votes to overturn Roe on the Supreme Court right now, and McCain would add a fifth. Indeed, he’s vowed to do exactly that<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s not spin; that’s arithmetic. I’m delighted reproductive rights survived the Reagan and Bush years (though these rights hardly survived intact), but the right is one vote away. Choose wisely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hillary Clinton’s gracious, classy concession speech in DC a couple of weeks ago went a long way towards promoting some intra-party unity, but to her enormous credit, the senator is just getting started. Clinton vowed to work her heart out to help Obama, and it’s clear she meant it. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s campaign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}