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"Personally, I&amp;#x27;m waiting to pop the champagne corks until I know for sure that Hillary Clinton has finally exited the stage&amp;amp;#8212;e.g., when I am listening to her give a concession speech, in which she concedes, on CNN. But like a lot of people who&amp;#x27;ve been carefully watching this campaign, I&amp;#x27;m thinking ahead to the future, and what it&amp;#x27;s going to take to heal a rather fractured coalition of Democratic voters. The party needs some healing, and while I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s going to be nearly as bad as some Clinton supporters have been making it out to be, it&amp;#x27;s going to take some work&amp;amp;#8212;from the Party, the nominee, and the former candidate. A couple of thoughts: 1) The party elders have to throw down the gauntlet by saying that the Democratic Party is united and it is supporting Barack Obama. They&amp;#x27;ve been really slow during this campaign, but clearly, things took a turn this week when they finally gave Clinton the boot. Good. There isn&amp;#x27;t time for any of them to whinge or make demands for Clinton to be the vice-president, (a choice that must be Obama&amp;#x27;s and Obama&amp;#x27;s alone). Party elders have to tell voters to keep their eyes on the prize. 2) Barack Obama must continue being gracious to Hillary Clinton&amp;#x27;s supporters. He&amp;#x27;s been working very hard to make them feel welcome. And while there are so many reasons why she can&amp;#x27;t be his vice-president, maybe he could put a different woman, like Sebelius, on the ticket? 3.) Hillary Clinton must start being gracious. She could start by not making any more speeches like that awful one on Wednesday. In the end, it&amp;#x27;s not just good for the party, and it&amp;#x27;s not good for her future prospects, either: people will forgive a lot if she campaigns hard for Obama; she might even lose some of the &amp;amp;quot;divisive&amp;amp;quot; label that&amp;#x27;s been clinging to her for so long.&amp;amp;nbsp; What do you think needs to happen for the Democratic party to heal itself? Or do you think these wounds are really as bad as people say they are? &amp;amp;#8212;Caille &amp;amp;nbsp; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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