Hillary won't be on the ticket ... but she should be

Millions of Americans are bummed. Including myself.
Today marked the official day that Sen. Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination, beating Sen. Hillary Clinton. She fought as long and hard as she could, but now, being a little more than 200 delegates behind Obama, it's time for the battle to be over.
It's a disappointment to the Clinton camp and to her millions of supporters. Optimistic feminists will claim a woman's time to be president is soon. Frustrated Clinton-loyalists will be resentful toward Obama and possibly vote for McCain.
One thing is for certain: Her supporters will prove to be a powerful agent in either helping Obama or destroying him.
A main piece of the puzzle is who he will choose to be his vice president. It needs to be an older politician who has reached across party lines and who has experience working with stabilizing bad economies, fixing foreign relations, and alternative energy sources. But he won't want someone grabbing the spotlight from him. It's time to face the facts: He won't choose Clinton to be his vp. There's honestly no way in hell.
He wants to prove he can do it without her and she's too prideful and bitter toward him to want to cooperate.
The problem is that he really needs to work on getting back the lower class and senior citizen votes. If he could get all of Clinton's votes, too, then McCain wouldn't stand a chance. The "dream ticket" idea surely is a dream, but theoretically it shouldn't be too far-fetched.
Nearly a quarter of people who voted for Clinton are claiming they'll vote for McCain in November, because they're not pleased with Obama. That number should be alarmingly surprising, but it's not, because Clinton and Obama have been at each other's throats the whole campaign.
Even one of my good friend's moms said to me today "This might be the first election I vote Republican, because I hate Obama so much." It's just insane.
The truth is, people: Obama and Clinton stand for the same things. End the war in Iraq, increase taxes on the upper class, pull the country out of debt, increase the number of fuel-efficient cars, lower gas prices, spread a positive image of the U.S., save the housing crisis, help low-income families, give more money to the education system, push all companies to be environmentally-friendly and end the blood-thirsty reign of American arrogance as its diplomatic policy.
Those are the things that need to change in order for our country to take a step in the right direction. The president will have advisers, other politicians, world leaders, lobbyists and organizations providing suggestions about what to do and how. But when it boils down to it, Obama and Hillary want to accomplish the same goals. They might just have a slightly different approach and different resumes. But they both want to work for the Democratic party, for the working class and to improve live in the U.S.
Although I strongly feel Clinton is more capable of carrying out the presidential duties in a way that I find acceptable, I know Obama will be a fine president. And it's about damned time our president had a mixture of ethnicities.
I plan to vote for Obama in November, despite my loyalty to Clinton, because we must look at the big picture. Obama is ahead of McCain by 6 percentage points right now, according to a CBS poll. Six percent say they're undecided and that's who Obama should be really focusing on.
McCain's values are opposite of the Democratic Party. He wouldn't accomplish anything we'd want.
Democrats must stick together. That's the winning slogan of the 2008 presidential race.