Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

‘Hope’ and ‘change’ took a backseat to a different campaign theme this weekend at the Texas Democratic Party’s state convention in Austin: ‘unity.’ Party heads were pushing for unity between Hillary Clinton supporters and Barack Obama boosters every chance they had, hoping to buffer any fallout from Clinton’s anticipated suspension of her presidential campaign on Saturday. That’s no surprise considering the Texas convention is the first major event for the Dems after Obama secured enough delegates to claim the party nomination last week.

Obama and Clinton supporters in for the convention even informally organized a ‘unity pub crawl’Thursday night, where Clintonites met at Bull McCabe’s Irish Bar while Obama fans partied up the street at Club de Ville. At midnight the two sides would meet and “start the unity process.” But video of the peace talks between the two tribes meeting at the neutral location of the Austin bar scene shows the unity process ironically involves a lot of yelling, finger-pointing, and immature insults. All that these Jets and Sharks were missing was a Leonard Bernstein score.

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