Done and Done. Love, Hillary

Hillary Clinton is done. It was reported this morning that she, "will be speaking on Saturday about how together we can rally the party behind Senator Obama. The stakes are too high and the task before us too important to do otherwise."

Seriously, this could have been done so long ago. I don't claim to be a political strategist unless I'm really drunk, but it seems to me like she should have dropped out much longer ago to help strengthen the democratic party and to rally the people who didn't support Obama for whatever reason. McCain has been the nominee since March, and has been able to campaign since then, perhaps giving him a slight advantage. Obama needs to campaign hardcore now until November.

It makes it difficult to even fathom having Hillary as a VP since most Obama lovers are wondering why she has damaged this campaign for so long and might now be looking to jump on the train. Although it would be almost comical to see an odd couple like Obama and Clinton run for president, I don't personally believe that it would be the winning ticket to the White House. It's like a political version of Heidi Klum and Seal, but without the funny looking kids. It's just hard to think of the people in the red states (further known as Jesus Land) voting for a woman and an African-American. It's sad, but I really don't think that our country has let go of it's prejudices enough to elect people who would be better for our country than McCain because of race and gender, and I really think that race and gender factors combined, it would probably make their heads explode.

Anyway, there's my $0.03.