Obama and Hillary's call for Party's Unity have been cold shouldered by PUMA folks. On the other hand the Anybody But Clinton (ABC) and We hate Clintons (WHC) Folks are taking their Clinton hatred to new levels. During the primary, the Clinton supporters amongst African American community faced different explicit and implicit threats and hatred. Amongst the Black Caucus House of Representatives, there were explicit threats of primary opposition. Now ABC and WHC folks are carrying out their threats to reality. NYTimes is reporting :

Brooklyn's 10th Congressional District, home to more African-Americans than any other in New York, gave Senator Barack Obama his highest margin of victory in the state. But the district's longtime congressman, Edolphus Towns, did not share his constituency's preference for Mr. Obama. Now some of those voters are pushing to oust him.

Kevin Powell is challenging Mr. Towns for his seat. "His decision not to back Obama shows he is out of touch with his constituents," said N. Chandler, a former city corrections officer who lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant and who had supported Mr. Towns in the past. "And I think the people of this district are ready for a change."

The tensions in the district echo those in a handful of races around the country as Democratic incumbents with large African-American constituencies try to soothe resentments and anger incited by their support for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Even after Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton embraced in Unity, N.H., on Friday and sought to put their divisions behind them, some strains are still evident closer to the ground.

In Georgia, Representative John Lewis, a prominent civil rights leader, is facing primary challenges from two black candidates who have been critical of him for backing Mrs. Clinton for months before shifting to Mr. Obama. To underscore the point, one of the challengers set up his headquarters in the same building that served as Mr. Obama's office for the primary. Nearby, in Savannah, Representative John Barrow, who is white but represents a district that is largely black, is under attack from a challenger who says Mr. Barrow was also late to endorse Mr. Obama.

Another New Yorker, Representative Gregory W. Meeks of Queens, faces a primary opponent who has sought to make an issue of Mr. Meeks's support of the Clinton campaign in a district, New York's 6th, where Mr. Obama drew nearly 56 percent of the vote.

The man seeking Mr. Meeks's seat is Ruben Wills, 36, a former chief of staff for State Senator Shirley L. Huntley and an organizer for Mr. Obama in southeast Queens. "I was on board with Obama from Day 1," Mr. Wills said. "Meeks had to be dragged across the line."

And Representative Yvette D. Clarke, of Flatbush, Brooklyn, is running unopposed but lost the endorsement of a vital organization, the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats, in part because she embraced Mrs. Clinton's candidacy.

Most of these seats are considered safely Democratic, leaving little incentive for the national Democratic Party, or its leaders, to get involved in the races.

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Now for all the Party Unity threads in MyDD, I'm wondering what would you say if former Hillary supporters now put up candidates against Obama supporters like Kerry, Pelosi et al in retaliation of what is going to Hillary supporters in Congress. This action by the ABC crowd is going to have ripples within the Party. I sincerely hope Clinton helps folks who supported her through the primary.

The Party Unity responsibility lies on all which includes both Hillary and Obama's followers. Folks, primaries are over, get over it. Support Obama for the GE...