First, I have been (and remain) a great Hillary Clinton admirer. I think she would make a terrific president.

Further, I think Obama is pretty long on rhetoric and shorter on substance than I'd like.

HOWSOMEVER, I've finally decided it's time for her to hang up her gloves and concede the fight to Obama. I'm convinced that the Democratic party just MUST mend fences and get behind one candidate, which it's now pretty durn clear can be no one but Obama.   Any further divisiveness is just the Democratic donkey shooting itself in the hoof (to mangle a metaphor).

And I hope she will follow through with her promise to campaign hard for the final Democratic candidate (i.e. Obama). That would go a long way toward mending some of the damage and hard feelings from the rough campaigning that has gone on, on both their parts.

Dave Oesterreich