Both senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will be appearing together in New York on June 26th for a fund-raiser at the Mayflower Hotel. The goal of the fund-raiser is to encourage Hillary Clinton’s contributors to become a part of Barack Obama’s team. Clinton met up with Obama on June 5th, which is about two days before Clinton ended her presidential campaign, and she endorsed Obama. The fund-raiser is to help benefit Barack Obama’s campaign but it will also help senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to help end her debt through helpful contributions from Obama’s supporters.

There is still friction between supporters of Clinton and Obama supporters.  The former Governor of Michigan, Jennifer M. Granholm who was a former Clinton supporter drew in loud noises of disapproval from Obama supporters when she mentioned about Senator Clinton. Obama then said about the issue, “I shut that down and made very clear that Senator Clinton deserves respect. She ran a great race, and we are moving forward because we want to win in November.” (NYTimes, 2008).  Last Monday, Obama campaign mentioned that they hired Patti Solis Doyle who was a former Clinton’s campaign manager.

So as you can see, both Obama and Clinton are working together and helping each other.  Although I am a former supporter of Hillary Clinton, I can only hope that she will work on her attitude and views. It is not about the color of the person’s skin and social class standard, it about what they are going to do when they get into office. I am really getting tired of seeing people who are STILL focused on the race of the person, and not getting past that.  It is 2008, not 1908! Get over it already and focus on the issues.  The race card was pulled when Obama first began the run for the presidential campaign, and he put that to rest.  I do not understand why people continue to bring it up.  Do they feel threatened because a person of a color has a chance to help change a country? It is time to work on changing those views and look past the color of a person’s skin and look at what the issues that they are addressing. There are subjects that I support of both Obama and McCain as I am viewing them as a person, not their race, or age.

I am happy that Clinton and Obama are doing this special event to help each other out. This shows me that they are willing to work together despite their differences, now lets hope that their supporters can learn from their example and do the same thing too.