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Obama/Hillary Unity Rally Set To Take Place In A Town Called ... "Unity"
The Obama campaign has just announced the details of his planned joint appearance with Hillary this coming Friday -- their first appearance together since Obama clinched -- and it has to be said that the specifics are pretty artful.
They're holding a joint rally in a town that's actually called "Unity, New Hampshire." And that's not all: In "Unity," the Obama campaign says, each candidate received exactly the same number of votes! One hundred and seven apiece, to be exact.
You can't make this stuff up. What was the likelihood of finding a place called "Unity" for a unity event -- let alone one where both candidates pulled exactly the same support?
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Barf.
June 23, 2008 1:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, come on! Can't you imagine how much press they're going to get out of this? The kind you simply can't afford to buy (well maybe Obama could but I digress . . .)
NH is a swing state; It's been good to McCain in 2000 and 2008.
This might be too cute for us hardened liberals but it will shut out the media sun on McCain for two days! Not that he's had too much of that because he's such a complete bore!
June 23, 2008 1:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
How Hallmark.
June 23, 2008 1:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Was this Mark Penn's idea?
Oh well, a little over the top, but kind of funny.
June 23, 2008 1:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
That is just way to cute. Makes me agree with Timbo212. Barf.
June 23, 2008 1:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know, there is so much sacharine to this, I may have to get screened for bladder cancer.
June 23, 2008 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now, just imagine if they had decided to hold it in Intercourse, PA . . .
June 23, 2008 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
EEEEWWWWWWWWW!
June 23, 2008 1:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Funniest line of the day!
June 23, 2008 1:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder if any candidate has ever had the stones to hold a rally there? (not counting locals)
June 23, 2008 2:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh wow. It's really a real place, for real.
June 23, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
OK, that's some hokey shit right there.
June 23, 2008 1:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is starting to look like they may be setting the stage for Senator Clinton to be the VP pick. Why else would they be stressing the tie vote in Unity.
June 23, 2008 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nah -- I wouldn't read that much into it. This is still to do with repairing the damage done during the primary season.
Now if having Clinton around campaigning for him somehow begins to cause a surge in support for Obama in key states, then perhaps they might think again about it, but I suspect that's not going to happen.
June 23, 2008 1:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL- Obama sure likes the symbolic venues.
It is a bit much but it is good theater.
June 23, 2008 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I really hope they triple-checked the vote tallies here, otherwise the whole event would make them a laughingstock.
June 23, 2008 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
If they felt compelled to pull a gag like that they should have staged it in Amityville. At least the off-chance of uninvited demonic attendees might have taken a little hokey out of the shit.
June 23, 2008 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Amityville? Nah, too close to Massapequa (aka Matzoh-Pizza).
The Jewish-Itailian demographics of the area are much more suitable to Lieberman-DaMato than to Obama-Hillary.
June 23, 2008 2:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Whichever aide, from whichever camp, came up with this idea, needs a serious raise! This is way too cute -- what delicious tongue-in-cheekness!!!!
And if it was an aide from the Clinton camp, then I am almost ready to forgive that &%^# campaign!!!
June 23, 2008 1:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now, just imagine if they had decided to hold it in Intercourse, PA . . .
Posted by HOKNY
June 23, 2008 1:26 PM
That would really be putting The Unit in Unity!!!/
June 23, 2008 1:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, it's a bit much for me as well. We must be liberals.
June 23, 2008 1:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, I guess we are a more cynical bunch.
This is probably a good move then, since we are into General mode- us liberals are no longer the target of the Obama campaign. It is the people in the middle who they need to convert.
June 23, 2008 1:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, it's a bit much. But it's just going to generate that much more press.
June 23, 2008 1:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
As if they needed a catchy name to attract media coverage to their first joint appearance since she conceded. Uh huh.
June 23, 2008 1:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess 'PleasehelpmegetbackthatmoneyIspent OH' was all booked up.
June 23, 2008 1:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lighten up, all ye griping liberals! I am as liberal as any in the gang, and I just laughed out loud when I heard it first on MSNBC...it is really too funny! 107 votes a-piece!
June 23, 2008 1:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Like the double rainbow that greeted mourners at Tim Russert's memorial following the ukulele performance of Somewhere over the rainbow
This is a message from God
June 23, 2008 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
How 'bout
http://preview.tinyurl.com/4xdoap
June 23, 2008 1:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did they uh, build the town for this event?
June 23, 2008 2:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hrmphhhhhhh! Tacky, tacky, tacky!!!!!! Whoever came up with that????? Bah! Silly. And to think we were having sooooooooooooooo much fun with the FISA thing. Unity? 107 votes apiece? who wants a bet that it was the HRC people who came up with it? She does NOTHING to him. Even her women voters have moved on, for Pete's sake.
June 23, 2008 2:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
OMG! I can go to this event! It's right near my house! I have never seen Barack! Yes, Unity, New Hampshire!
June 23, 2008 2:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
you live right next to Lebanon. heh... I'd love to live in blue state.
June 23, 2008 3:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
JohnMcscf-LOL! that is too much. havent laughed like that since this morning. thanks with tears streaming down my dusky doe eyes.
June 23, 2008 2:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does this mean that when the PUMA crowd hear about the Obama/Hillary Unity event, they will start eating their cubs?
June 23, 2008 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
You can't make this stuff up.
Seriously. Someone should have told them this before.
June 23, 2008 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
I grew up in the next town over from Unity, NH (Goshen). It is at least a hour and half drive Northwest of Manchester, NH.
Unity is an extremely small town, as you can guess by looking at those vote totals and basically fits your stereotype of a small New Hampshire town.
Kinda wish I still lived in that area, because I would love to go to this event.
June 23, 2008 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Liam- that was PRICELESS!! You guys are killing me here. I have not laughed like this in ages. Thanks so much. It feels like a different world right now.
June 23, 2008 2:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
At least they didn't select Intercourse, PA for their appearance. I'm grateful for that.
(My husband and I actually spent 3 days in Intercourse a couple of years ago. Seriously. It's a nice little Amish village.)
June 23, 2008 2:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
What?
You dont think the pack mentality voter wont eat this up?
June 23, 2008 2:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/county/#val=NHDEMPRIMARY22
They are correct in the 107 votes each.
June 23, 2008 3:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Unity, Maine is a much better spot.
It's right up the road from me.
June 23, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Eat Your Heart Out Sargent!
June 23, 2008 4:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
McDouche will respond by holding a symbolic event in Freedom, NH now, just watch (the fact that there is a Freedom is almost as sickening as Unity)
Whoever wins should then have an event in Success, NH... an unincorporated Township, population 0, east of Berlin, NH...
NH is full of absurd town names, and they're usually the most backwoods towns available
June 23, 2008 4:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, I am in Vermont, but this is about 35 miles from me. It's close to Dartmouth College in Hanover, of which I am the president and chief CEO.
June 23, 2008 7:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
thanks for the CV.
June 23, 2008 10:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
I grew up in a town that borders Unity, NH (Charlestown, NH, childhood home of Carlton Fisk), and I've driven through it a few times. There is no 'downtown' to speak of, not even a gas station or a general store. Supposedly they were in our school district but I never actually knew anyone from there, My mom still lives in Charlestown, she actually knows folks in Unity. This town is so small, they have a major problem if more than three toilets are flushed at the same time.
June 27, 2008 10:34 AM | Reply | Permalink