Barack Obama and
Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to mend rifts within the
party on Friday after their combative primary fight, heaping
praise on each other as they campaigned together in a
town chosen for the symbolism of its name -- Unity.
Clinton, once considered the inevitable Democratic
nominee, praised her former rival for ''his grace and his
grit'' and said John McCain and the Republican Party
had probably hoped the two Democrats would not join
forces against them in the November election. A day after
introducing Obama to some of her top financial backers,
Clinton encouraged her supporters to join with his
''to create an unstoppable force for change we can all
believe in,'' urging those who had backed her not to
vote Republican.
