The irony of the heavy-handed (yet, admit it, sort of brilliant) symbolism of holding Friday's Obama/Clinton event in Unity, NH, a town where the two literally won an equal number of votes in January, is that we Democrats are doing just fine in the unity department.
But hell, this certainly can't hurt:
No one cared much about Unity -- the town or the ideal -- back when more than a dozen candidates were competing in the New Hampshire primary. [...]That will change on Friday, when former rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign together for the first time since he won enough delegates to secure the Democratic presidential nomination. As they try to ease tensions and bring their party together, they are seizing upon both the town's symbolism and symmetry -- each received 107 Democratic votes in Unity on Jan. 8, plus one write-in vote apiece from Republicans.
Friday's rally will be held outside the Unity Elementary School, where Principal Chip Baldwin first thought the Obama staffer who showed up last week was just another photocopier salesmen.
It's no coincidence, of course, that this week was also the first peep we've heard from Bill Clinton about his support for Barack Obama. One suspects, though, that in time it will become more effusive than this one-line statement he released through a spokesman:
"President Clinton is obviously committed to doing whatever he can and is asked to do to ensure Senator Obama is the next president of the United States," McKenna said.
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