Sunny-Side Up.

      

From Reuters:

Hillary Clinton ended her presidential bid and endorsed Barack Obama on Saturday, urging her supporters to unite behind his candidacy and help recapture the White House for Democrats in November.

In the first step toward healing the wounds of a sometimes bitter five-month Democratic nominating battle, Clinton told a cheering crowd at her final rally that she would work hard to put Obama in the White House.

She urged her supporters to unite behind the Illinois senator in his general election race against Republican John McCain.

"I will work my heart out to make sure that Senator Obama is our next president," Clinton told a crowd of about 2,000 at the National Building Museum in Washington. "I ask all of you to join me in working as hard for Barack Obama as you have for me."

Sen. Clinton ran a tough, historic campaign.

I have an affinity for "tough".

(Betty.)

And, yeah--to look questioningly at gender or race has long seemed antiquated to me. I acknowledge Hillary's role in putting a lot of that in the dumpster where it belongs.

Still, I don't want her on the ticket in November.

Please, no executive ménage à trois. I'm not interested in the psycho-drama and Clintonian reality programming that we'd invariably see. 

If this is, indeed, a "change" election, cut it clean.

Don't look back.

Hillary Clinton is a policy wonk. Her campaign's health care plan appealed to me, and--with a White House push--she conceivably could lead the way to crafting meaningful health care legislation in the Senate.

She's already proven that her voice reverberates in those halls.

That's no small accomplishment.

But I do not want her--or the Two-For-One with Bill--on Barack Obama's ticket.

I'm cynical, too, but I'm not yet dead inside. I am a hopeful man, and I'd like to keep that little glimmer aflame.

I'm a Blue Sky guy. 

So I'll walk the Strand, I'll stick my toes in the sand and the surf, and I'll wait to see who Barack Obama chooses to take that run with him at further history.

And I'll do my best to always keep the sunny-side up.