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Posted at 11:08pm on Jun. 8, 2008 Barack Obama's "Hillary" Problem: A Continuing Series

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

I imagine that there is a lot of this going around:

I'd like to interrupt this Unity Day message with a small reminder to the Barack Obama campaign and the Democratic Party - unless he picks Hillary Clinton as his running mate - the day he announces his Vice Presidential candidate will be a day of disunity.
I hope someone is thinking about that. Because since today is "Why Hillary Lost" Day in the Media, they need to remember that Hillary Clinton got half of the votes. Yes, she lost . . . barely. Obama is in a tight race with John McCain and needs a unified Democratic Party and if he is set on NOT picking Hillary Clinton as his VP, I hope he has a plan for re-unifying the Party the day after he insists on NOT unifying, indeed, in dividing the Party by not choosing Hillary Clinton as his VP.

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Posted at 8:30pm on Jun. 7, 2008 Barack Obama's "Hillary" Problem

Because of the very same crass, power-hungry behavior we have come to expect from the Clintons, Barack Obama is presented with a fair amount of trouble. Despite Hillary Clinton's endorsement of Obama in today's speech announcing the suspension of her campaign, some of Clinton's supporters are not quite yet willing to come on board:

Cynthia Ubaldo, 44, a Clinton supporter in Columbus, Ohio, just switched her registration from Democratic to independent and donated $10 to Mr. McCain. The endorsement on Saturday is a mandatory, empty gesture, Ms. Ubaldo said.
"I'm sure Hillary's cussing Obama out to Bill and Chelsea as we speak," she said.
[. . .]
If he does not offer the vice-presidential position to Mrs. Clinton, "I'm going to be really angry," said Alida Black, another longtime Clinton supporter.
"Hillary is not interchangeable," Ms. Black added, warning Mr. Obama not to select, say, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas as a gesture to please women.
[. . .]
For Ms. Ubaldo, the Clinton supporter who switched registration and donated to Mr. McCain, the Republican nominee is not so much a protest choice as an appealing alternative.
"This guy is not a conservative," said Ms. Ubaldo, who does not have health insurance but does have a subprime mortgage.

I imagine that there are a fair amount of people like Ms. Ubaldo. Some of them are discussed here. They could have potentially transferred their loyalties long ago, but Hillary Clinton decided to drag out the campaign to the point that her supporters became quite embittered indeed. Oh sure, most of these people will go back to supporting Senator Obama. But some may not. And in a close election, that may make all of the difference in the world.

Barack Obama may have lots and lots of reasons to dislike Hillary Clinton at the end of all of this. She has done everything within her power to prevent Democrats from being able to come together earlier and united their party against John McCain. Maybe Obama can patch the party back together soon enough. But if he can't, and if more people like Ms. Ubaldo either sit on their hands or end up supporting John McCain, Obama will know who to thank.

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