Obama and Clinton Will Raise Funds Together Next Week in NYC
EmailABC News’ Sunlen Miller reports: Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton will appear together at two New York City fundraisers next week in an attempt to raise money for not only the presumptive nominee but also to settle some of Clinton’s campaign debts.
"You know, I haven’t been closely involved with the details," Obama said, but "I think our respective fundraisers have been working together. As I’ve said before, I want to make sure that we’re providing Sen. Clinton with some help just as she is going out of her way to campaign on our behalf. We’re gonna be united. I want us to be able to concentrate going into the convention and — coming out of the convention — on winning this election."
According to the Obama campaign, the former opponents will hit the fundraising circuit in Clinton’s backyard for three fundraisers.
On Wednesday night, Obama and Clinton will attend two fundraisers in Manhattan –- one for Obama’s presidential campaign and one to help Clinton raise money to pay off the more than $10 million she owes to campaign debtors.
On Thursday morning they will appear together at a women’s fundraiser breakfast for Obama at the New York Hilton and Towers. Sen. Obama has been courting Sen. Clinton’s fundraisers slowly since Clinton suspended her campaign on June 7.
Last Thursday, Clinton and Obama held a joint fundraiser at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C. It was an attempt to introduce Obama to some of Clinton’s deep-pocket donors.
This is the first public appearance together for the former opponents since their much-publicized event in Unity, N.H., last Friday.
Blog updated with quote from Sen. Barack Obama.
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Posted by: scoob | July 5, 2008, 12:09 pm 12:09 pm
This sounds like another Obama flip flop. He claimed he would only collect money off small donors. But these meetings with Clintons big DONORS sound like trouble. Or has Obama been bamboozling us all along on this small time donations funding his campaign.
Posted by: help out | July 5, 2008, 12:18 pm 12:18 pm
Obama has proven himself to be just another politician saying what he needs to say to get elected.
He has been a huge disappointment. And I mean HUGE.
Posted by: Beth | July 5, 2008, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm
No Hillary as VP – no vote for Obama.
And, according to the latest CNN poll, many Clinton supporters are NOT supporting Obama. And there are 18 million of us. And Obama needs EVERY single one of us.
Obama is only leading McCain by a statisically insignificant margin.
Considering, the climate (i.e. Bush’s low approval rating, the weakness of John McCain as a candiate) he should be WAY ahead.
No Hillary as VP – no vote for Obama.
Simple as that …….
Posted by: ch | July 5, 2008, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm
you know its really sad here obama wants to help us american people as well as get our troops out of iraq try to gain other countries respect and all you people can do is sit here and trash him lie about him thats sad know i now there are some strong hillary supporters that are dissapointed she lost but to gon on mccains side out of spite out of obamas color well thats just sad when you all know obama and hillary both have similar policies dont you understand your not just voting for obama but an administration and i can bet she will be part of maybe not vp but something voting mccain what is that gonna do for hillary???
Posted by: ANGIE | July 5, 2008, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm
The hardest thing to do is try to bring the Democrat Family back together after all the infighting the last few monthes. But as least they doing the best they can.
Hillary’s talking points against Obama have been embraced by Karl Rove and his attack machine.
It would be up to Hillary to take the Republican Attack Machine on before the Convention. It would help all of us to defend her better.
Anther interesting poll was done in California after Hillary threw the kitchen sink, 3am ad and bittergate at Obama, The poll showed California Democrats voters threw their support behind Obama. If the California primary was held then she would have lost.
Posted by: Alex Smith | July 5, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm
John Edwards is already taking on Karl Rove in a debate. Hes taking on the Republican Dark Side that won the last two Presidential Elections. Hillary will not take on Rove and his bull dogs. How can she fight them? They would just throw her words back at her.
Posted by: Ruth Bean | July 5, 2008, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm
Unity is better than division. To lose gracefully is being a good sport. Everyone can’t win whether it’s the Olympics, Academy Awards, or Nobel Prize. We have to be grown up adults. Obama did not steal the nomination. He followed the rules that everyone agreed to and won. He was very nice in giving away delegates that he won, and generous to help Hillary with her debt. If one is emotionally healthy, they should be able to evaluate the situation, then move on. No one likes a sore loser. It is not the American way.
Posted by: Pearl Luker | July 5, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm
If circumstances change, and new information has come forward, earler decisions have to be altered or changed. This is common sense. It is not flip flopping. I’m glad Obama is not hard headed and stubborn. Some leaders will keep going in the wrong direction, even though they know they know they made the wrong decision,just to save face.
Posted by: Ponca Lin | July 5, 2008, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm
Angry people who are hostile and can’t accept their circumstances and move on live fewer years than people who can. Having the Fatal Attraction syndrome is painful. Yes, your candidate lost. The emotionally healthy approach would be to continue working for your beliefs, not switch party out of spite, then end up hurting youself.
Posted by: Perine Lee | July 5, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm
When Al Gore lost narrowly, his supporters didn’t whine like cry babies. Boo hoo hoo. If I can’t win, I’m going to take my marbles and go home. Boo hoo hoo. That’s not fair. Boo hoo hoo. Let’s change the rules of the DNC and “Move the bar” so I can steal the nomination.When Nixon lost narrowly to Kennedy, he supporters weren’t cry babies. Jill Trenary thought she would win the Ice Skating olympics in 1976, but Katerina Witt came out of nowhere and won. Things happen, get over it. Hillary lost.
Posted by: Jack Sparr | July 5, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
Jack Sparr -
HRC lost because she was squeezed out to a phony Affirmative Action nominee. In case you so-called educated, rich, elitist Obama supporters still do not get it, it is not whining if we do not support nor vote for your phony political Jesus.
Posted by: Jokerous | July 5, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
Obama having breakfast w/ HRC.
Hope he has a food taster.
Posted by: Miri NY | July 5, 2008, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm
jokerous
hillary was not squeezed out why becaus obama won his share of primaries and some super delegates support him why because hillary was a clinton the whole country as well as all the super delegates was suppose to run to her please people have their own minds
Posted by: ANGIE | July 5, 2008, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm
Political Realist -
It’s called deception. Too bad, you, as many good hearted BhO supporters, were fooled by a phony who has zero credentials for anything except making a few feeling-good speeches.
Posted by: jokerous | July 5, 2008, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm
Political Realist -
ps. Actually, we are going out to defeat this phony by voting McCain who probably will in fact get some good things done collaborating with the majority dems congress. Any of BhO’s agendas will surely be fillabustered in the Senate, and nothing can and will be done. Do you think he has the kind of skills or ability like Bill Clinton to pass an economic package with a 51-49 vote in the senate? Clinton brought about 8 years of unprecedented prosperity and peace in this country. BhO?
Posted by: jokerous | July 5, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm
You cannot have a phony who say things for the day to get his 50000 cheers in a football stadium, and then, changes them the next day when it is convenient and beneficial for his political gains. He is either no clue and being manipulated, or he is a political con-artist. Evidence seems to suggest that he is both.
Posted by: jokerous | July 5, 2008, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain are from the Senate. After they fight they are friends not the Congress where the Republicans yell at the Democrats. I heard a Republican Congressman threaten to bit a Democrat one time and it made the news. Senators are more civil.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton raising funds together means that they have moved on unlike so of the posters here.
Go Barack Obama 08
Posted by: Tim | July 5, 2008, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm
hillary and obama moved on the primaries are over hill accepts so why cant all of us DEMOCRATS UNITE
Posted by: ANGIE | July 5, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm
ANGIE -
Maybe it is so important for you someone had or had not a affair. If you are an “average” american, you were better off by a Clinton, but you are not by a Bush who proclaimed had no affair.
HRC stood her own ground and firm and would have won for sure in November. BhO deceived his supporters, and took no responsibilities for what he did. When responsibility comes, he chickens out. He made a speech protesting the war – what would you expect in an anti-war rally – when it had no real responsibility. He supported staying in Iraq after he came to being in the Senate, every single time when a vote takes place because he did not want to bear the phony title not supporting troops which would have not been beneficial for his political agenda.
What’s wrong with giving some tax benefit? It may not meant much to you, but it could mean more to the economy by reducing costs for transporting food into your grocery stores, clothing into your department stores. Talk to a trucker to see what they thing about gas tax holiday.
What policy does BhO have for Energy in the long term? He first opposes nuclear energy, and then, maybe he supports it. He proposes to build zero, nor more precisely, he has not proposed anything, to build nuclear power plants.
Like it or not, nuclear energy is the only energy source in the future, if you want your grandchildren to enjoy the same standard of living. And unlike BhO seems to understand, or more precisely not to understand, nuclear energy is safe and clean, if you undestand the science and technology.
Posted by: jokerous | July 5, 2008, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm
i am concerened with my childrens future thats why im not being bitter and voting for barack obama
Posted by: ANGIE | July 5, 2008, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm
Everyone –
As an Obama supporter let me apologize for Davis. You can see how he treats even fellow supporters who have any slight disagreements with his God candidate.
Most of us Obama supporters are nothing like him. We don’t clutch his picture and cry and yell pompous garbage at anyone who even slightly doubts His Lordship’s Obama fallibility. Many of us Obama supporters are disappointed because we see the same changes in our candidate that you do. And those of us who voted in the primary on issues and not charisma are disappointed.
So please don’t let jerks like Davis influence your support for Obama or your questioning of him. Every movement has it’s looney kool aid drinkers and he’s just today’s loudest.
Posted by: Political Realist | July 5, 2008, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm
one for Obama’s presidential campaign and one to help Clinton raise money to pay off the more than $10 million she owes to campaign debtors.
Barack Obama has practice in knowing how to pay someone off. His friend Rezko showed he how.
Posted by: waggdogg | July 5, 2008, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm
Why are we talking about anybody who is not the nominee? Let’s focus people.
Posted by: CC | July 5, 2008, 7:52 pm 7:52 pm
I will never vote for Obama for reasons that have nothing to do with my preferred candidate, Clinton. If Clinton had never run, I still wouldn’t support a lying, criminal racist, sexist fraud like him. The only reason she endorsed him was because she knuckled under to the DNC. Now Obama has her on a leash, dragging her to all his campaign stops, and sucking the money from her supporters. He’s so completely unfit, nothing Clinton can say or do will garner my support. I’ve lost respect for her over this. McCain 2008.
Posted by: Griffin | July 5, 2008, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm
And beside Hilllary R. Clinton is far more intelligent, interesting and the breath of fresh air that American has been waiting for.
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Ain’t that the truth!
Posted by: J | July 5, 2008, 11:50 pm 11:50 pm
J
if you would have listened to obama in the primaries you would see he is not flip flopping judging by your tone i take it your voting for mccain???
Posted by: angie | July 6, 2008, 12:13 am 12:13 am
angie,
No I am not voting for either of these two dolts. One is as bad as the other. I tried not to listen to Obama, I couldn’t take the ummm, ahhhh, I agree with Hillary. It was getting to much for me.
Posted by: J | July 6, 2008, 12:17 am 12:17 am
j
are you angry at obama because hillary lost?? i know it sucks but its time to get over it and move on
Posted by: angie | July 6, 2008, 12:20 am 12:20 am
j
you stated you tried not to listen to obama have you ever considered listening to him????
Posted by: angie | July 6, 2008, 12:22 am 12:22 am
angie,
I don’t need to get over anything. I didn’t like Obama from day one and McCain well enough said there. Feel free to vote for the idiot of your choice.
Posted by: J | July 6, 2008, 12:22 am 12:22 am
j
so i take it your not voting well its good to know you wont vote mccain very smart on your part but you have to remember your not just voting for obama but an administration and i bet hillary would be part of that and why dont you like obama hillary and him have all most the same policies
Posted by: angie | July 6, 2008, 12:27 am 12:27 am
Posted by: angie
There are other candidates besides these two and I may just write in Hillary even though it probably won’t count. At least my conscience is clear that I didn’t help send this country in to a bigger cesspool than it is already in.
Besides that until the convention nobody is the nominee. Who knows by the grace of God something might change before August on the anointed one and ruin him politically.
Posted by: J | July 6, 2008, 12:36 am 12:36 am
well j you have stated your case and one day you will find out what hillary is all about no but she wants obama to pay off her debt that she acumulated by running a bad campaign if she doesnt want to support him she dont need his money but remember hillary is no angel at the end of the day she is still a politican!!!
Posted by: angie | July 6, 2008, 12:40 am 12:40 am
dont you like obama hillary and him have all most the same policies
Posted by: angie
hmmmmm…maybe because he has none of his own???
Posted by: J | July 6, 2008, 12:41 am 12:41 am
j
responding to your last post
besides that until the convention nobody is the nomoniee who knows by the grace of god something my change by august to ruin him politically
you know j i bet hillary prays that all the time and i would watch my back if i were him shes so obsessed with being the first woman president no telling what she might do scary
Posted by: angie | July 6, 2008, 12:45 am 12:45 am
im sorry i dont see where hillary would make a good president she has no foreign policy experience and i know obama dont have much either but at least he went to iraq and talked with our military in 2006 hillary is not very liked in ny i have alot of family and friends there ok she was bill wife and first lady but i still think that doesnt qualify her for president i just feel she is to fake and shes in this more for her and not us
Posted by: angie | July 6, 2008, 12:51 am 12:51 am
what i meant was not assasanation even though hillary has mentioned that i mean secertly trying to destroy him with smears etc making him look bad
Posted by: angie | July 6, 2008, 12:54 am 12:54 am
you really have to lay off fox news and rush limbaugh obamas been in senate 4 years do your research on your own hillary has been senate for only 2 years seriously j stop watching fox news take your own time research obama wouldnt you want to find out the truth yourself not from the media or he said she said your own research i know its hard because we dont know obama and who doesnt know hillary clinton
Posted by: angiee | July 6, 2008, 12:58 am 12:58 am
no j
he has not lied i listen to everyone of his speeches he has not changed on everything thats the problem you dont listen to him you dont like him you only listen to the media and the bits and pieces you just stated you cant listen to him so how do you know once again your not getting all the facts!!
Posted by: angie | July 6, 2008, 1:04 am 1:04 am
what i meant was not assasanation even though hillary has mentioned that i mean secertly trying to destroy him with smears etc making him look bad
Posted by: angie
I must’ve missed that one.
Posted by: J | July 6, 2008, 1:16 am 1:16 am
Obama can not even come close to H.R. Clintons’, intellect, solutions and policies.
Obama has zero experience, so we will vote for McCain.
Posted by: Jkan | July 6, 2008, 1:19 am 1:19 am
Hillary Clinton is NOT going to get a cabinet position in a Mc Cain administration. I don’t think most of these comments are from her real supporters but posted by Rush Limbaugh Operation Chaos people. She has asked her supporters to vote for Obama because she knows Mc Cain goes against most of the women’s issues that she has worked for all her life. No reasonable person can stay angry this long, something else is their issue.
Posted by: Pearl | July 6, 2008, 8:13 am 8:13 am
Pearl,
Yes we all work for Rush Limbaugh. The issue is Obama has lied, flip flopped and has the resume that would fit on my pinkie finger nail. He says what you fools want to hear. Anybody with an ounce of sense wouldn’t vote for either of these 2.
Posted by: J | July 6, 2008, 10:06 am 10:06 am
Obama should raise enough money to more than pay off Hillary’s debt… Maybe he should not accept donations till Clinton’s debt is paid off… That would show his support of Unity.
Posted by: Giovanni | July 6, 2008, 10:08 am 10:08 am
and j
if you read senator obama has been senate for 4 years not 145 days as fox news and rush limbaugh would say
Posted by: ANGIE | July 6, 2008, 10:22 am 10:22 am
Why is Clinton not back in the Senate instead of trying to raise money?
She is no longer running for President, she should go back to work.
Posted by: Ron Sansone | July 6, 2008, 11:36 am 11:36 am
Hi angie,
Three of Obama’s four years in the Senate have been spent running for President. The man never voted on a serious issue, he either votes with the Demicrats or votes PRESENT on the tough issues.
Posted by: Ron Sansone | July 6, 2008, 11:40 am 11:40 am
I am sorry for the people that voted
for Obama. You honestly couldn’t see
through him how he speaks out of both
sides of his mouth..He can give a pretty
speech but that is as far as it goes…
He steals all of his ideas from others,
and he will lead this country down the
wrong path..Oh yes, we need change…
But I don’t think we need his kind of
change. He talks a good line, and sings
and dances a happy tune, but is that
what we need for this country…I don’t think so…McCain is not the right one either, so what do we do…We write letters to the DNC, e mail, and what ever else it takes to change who is
on the ballot..We don’t have much time,
but if we stick together, we can make
a change for this country….Our children is at stake here…We have run this country on 8 years of failure, we can not lose any more years of bad
policy depending on other countries to
bail us out…We as a free nation should not be depending on others for anything
but ourselves…What is stopping us from
demanding change at the convention..We
need to let Nancy, the DNC, and Dean we
will not take anymore foolishness and
we want an honest convention run…They have taken votes away from Hillary..The
media has changed the way this country has run it’s politics…we are at a
cross roads people…Let us stand up and
be counted and write letters and
e mails, and go to the convention if
it takes that to make changes..
Thank you…mshill
Posted by: mshill | July 6, 2008, 2:16 pm 2:16 pm
If you want Hillary to win do what everyone else is doing write her in the ballot in November.
Posted by: Matt | July 6, 2008, 4:31 pm 4:31 pm
umm Yeah obama has about 4 years in the senate 2 of these years he has spent running for president(even though he said he wasnt going to run at this time). I am very disapponted that Hillary didnt get the nod, I havent made up my mind if barack is gonna get my vote he has stop acting to scared to debate people and learn to talk without a prepared speech, so I know what he stands for besides not today not this time and change. Also Hillary has gone back to her job, last week she was visting some new york farmers who’s crops got ruined.
Posted by: rachel | July 7, 2008, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm
Yuck…I hate to hear Hillary standing with him on any stage. I’d rather her pay her debt from her own $109 million she and Bill earned. Bill didn’t help her win this thing anyways, so he owes her as far as I’m concerned.
I love Hillary and want/wanted her as POTUS big time….but would never cast a vote for Obama. AVOID THE PAIN…VOTE McCAIN! Even IF she were VP, I couldn’t cast a vote for BO.
Posted by: Debra | July 7, 2008, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm