Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton sought together Monday to swing this state to blue, mocking the Republican ticket by saying the election's theme should be "jobs, baby, jobs" for people hurting in a nearly unprecedented economic crisis.
It was the first time the opponents from the Democratic primaries had appeared together since early July. Those were understated affairs compared to the wild, sign-waving, overflow crowd of more than 50,000 people that gathered outside a sports arena to see them side-by-side as the sun set.
Clinton, sharing nearly equal billing with the man who beat her for the Democratic presidential nomination, got the "jobs, baby, jobs" train going by saying that the "drill, baby, drill" chant that is popular in speeches and crowds at events for Republican John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, misses people's real concerns.
Later, as Obama spoke, he picked it up at his audience's urging. "Jobs, baby, jobs -- you like that don't you?" he said to cheers.
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I so hope that Jobs, Baby, Jobs becomes the new chant as Obama barnstorms in these last two weeks.