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Clinton faces defiance of her appeal for Democratic party unity
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 26 - 08 - 2008


Senator Hillary Clinton, who brought her
presidential bid within a hair's breadth of winning her party, was
expected to appeal later Tuesday for her 18 million backers to get
solidly behind rival Barack Obama in the general elections, according to dpa.
But ahead of the much-awaited speech before 4,400 Democratic Party
delegates in Denver on Tuesday, many supporters continued to be
unhappy about a prospect of forced unanimity and were trying to force
a state-by-state roll-call vote the next evening.
Many in the Obama camp fear such a display of support for Clinton,
who won more than 40 per cent of delegates in primary elections,
could undermine the party's bid to reclaim the White House in
November.
Tension between the Obama and Clinton camps over the plan has
become fodder for media speculation, even as the New York senator on
Monday tried to publicly quell the spat.
"This is Barack Obama's convention as it should be," she said in
broadcast remarks. "What we are doing is bringing everyone together
with the same level of commitment."
She warned it would be a mistake for her supporters to vote for
Republican presumptive nominee John McCain in the general elections.
"Anyone who voted for me has so much more in common with Senator
Obama" than with McCain, she said.
Yet her supporters are still pushing for the formal recognition of
her accomplishment as a woman who went further in her bid for the
party's presidential nod than any woman in US history.
And some say they will defy her request and that they won't be
railroaded into voting for Obama Wednesday night in the roll-call
vote.
Maryland State Senator Mary Boergers, a diehard Clinton delegate,
said there's a move afoot to collect 800 signatures that could force
a rules fight over the state-by-state roll call that the Obama
campaign is apparently trying to cut short with a rules manoeuvre.
"I respect what (Clinton's) saying. I have a different path to
unity," Boergers told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
The Clinton dynasty already dominates two evenings of the four-day
gathering that will end Thursday with Obama's acceptance speech
before 75,000 people at Ivesco field's Mile High Stadium.
Her speech Tuesday evening will clinch an evening designed as a
salute to Clinton, complete with a video prologue, and to women's
accomplishments in politics. The day marks the 88th anniversary of
women's right to vote in the US.
Clinton is not, however, delivering the so-called keynote speech,
to be given by former Virginia governor Mark Warner who is locked in
a hard battle for election as US senator. In 2004, Obama rose to
national promise when the party gave him the "keynote" role to boost
his chances of winning a US senate seat held by a Republican.
On Wednesday, before the roll-call vote, Clinton's husband, former
president Bill Clinton, is to speak.
Boergers likened the "huge pressure" on Clinton delegates to
switch to Obama, to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's "Kremlin"
tactics.
"Whoever doesn't go along with the programme is subversive,"
Boergers said. Obama's people "seem to be terrified of having the
votes counted."
Boergers said she feels an ob|gation to her Maryland voters to
cast her ballot for Clinton.
Clinton is "going to tell us to vote for Obama? It's not up to her
to convince me to vote for Obama. It's up to Obama to do this."


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