The Road Back For Hillary Clinton

Tonight, Hillary Clinton has a golden opportunity. And I am truly hoping she takes full advantage of her moment in history. According to officials, Clinton will concede the Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama tonight. She will not officially end her campaign, but that's purely for political reasons, for her future negotiations with Obama. That will not trouble me one bit. Clinton received a lot of votes and has tremendous support, it may be too much bad blood now for the VP slot, but Obama better find something she wants. And I'm okay with that too.

She ran a great campaign, a tough campaign. Yes, she made mistakes and she did things that people didn't agree with. Like it or not, that's politics. She does not have to hang her head. She should strongly and happily celebrate what she has accomplished. Hillary Clinton has proved that a woman can run and possibly one day become President of the United States. She definitely needs to challenge the nation about its views about gender and leadership, but she needs to do it in a way that educates and empowers, not divides. I hope that is the message she choses to send to the world without any hint of conspiracy, double-dealings, or unfairness. No sour grapes, no gripes.

She needs to passionately and unquestioningly back Barack Obama's president campaign one hundred percent and she needs to strongly demand that her most staunchest supporters to do the same. She needs to remind everyone that the ulimate goal is to restore a Democrat to the White House.

And she may not be able to do it tonight, but she should most definitiely do it in the near future, she needs to call Michelle Obama. They have a lot more in common then people will admit, Clinton could help her avoid some of the mistakes she made in the 1990s. She could help prepare Michelle for a nation that demands a president have a spouse, as long as said spouse does not have any intelligence or ideas of her own.