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Clinton, Obama Court Votes in Selma

Posted on: Monday, 5 March 2007, 06:00 CST

Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama spent the 42nd anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Ala.

Clinton, D-N.Y., and Obama, D-Ill., spoke at ceremonies commemorating the historic crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.

For the first time since announcing her campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton was accompanied at a campaign appearance by her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

Obama and Hillary Clinton competed for African-American voters and white Democrats proud of their party's history in the civil rights movement as they appeared on a battleground of that struggle, The New York Times reported.

Hillary Clinton said the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had helped make it possible for Obama to run for president.

And by its logic and spirit, it is giving the same chance to (N.M.) Gov. Bill Richardson to run as a Hispanic, she said. And, yes, it is giving me that chance.

Obama had words of praise for both Clintons, the Times said.

We don't have time for other folks to divide us, he said before the march.

Some of us are caught in between, but isn't it healthy that we have the luxury to choose between two wonderful, gifted politicians? said Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a civil rights icon who has remained neutral in the race.

Source: United Press International

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