By Kristin Jensen
June 27 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton said she will devote herself to the election of Barack Obama, her former rival for the Democratic nomination, and asked her supporters to join them in the battle to win the White House.
``We may have started on separate paths, but today our paths have merged,'' Clinton told more than 4,000 people gathered at an outdoor rally in Unity, New Hampshire. ``Today we are coming together for the same goal -- to elect Barack Obama as the next president of the United States.''
The event in the town of 1,700, the first joint campaign appearance by the two candidates since the primaries ended, marked a closing of Democratic ranks behind Obama for the general election campaign against Arizona Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee. Unity has symbolism beyond its name: in the January New Hampshire primary Obama and Clinton each drew 107 votes there.
``This was a hard-fought primary campaign,'' Clinton said before Obama took the microphone. ``Today and every day going forward we stand shoulder to shoulder.''
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Now that we’re beyond Hillary, we can look forward to the first female VP, Sarah Palin, to become the first female President of the United States in 4 years!
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