First, my heartfelt congratulations to Senator Barack Obama for his historic victory in becoming the first African-American in United States history to achieve the Democrat nomination for President of the United States!

I wish that Obama – with his natural-born gifts of intelligence, soaring oratory, and political passion – were a conservative. We conservatives would cherish such a gifted politician.

But, alas, he remains a hard-core Marxist who only recently – and solely for calculated political reasons – distanced himself from fellow radicals and Chicago “machine” operatives Rev. Jeremiah Wright, domestic terrorist William Ayers, Rev. Michael Pfleger, convicted fixer Tony Rezko and the Windy City's favorite extortionist, Jesse Jackson.

Considering the company Obama keeps, and the hardball they play, it was totally unexpected that his moment in the delegate sun would be eclipsed by – himself!

What was conspicuously missing from Obama’s victory speech was his testicular fortitude – or, as they say in New York, cujones. Ironically, but accurately, this is a quality that only five weeks ago was attributed to none other than Hillary herself by the president of the Sheet Metal Workers’ union in Indiana, Paul Gibson.

Instead of standing on his golden podium and announcing that he and his excellent team of advisors had already chosen his running mate – and then introducing his VP choice – he allowed his opponent to steal the spotlight and grab the headlines.

In stark contrast, Hillary’s aggressive rejection of Obama’s electoral-college victory had all the earmarks of Clinton Cujones on parade! Just as in 2000, Democrats like Hillary prefer to ignore the fact that in our system of government, it is electoral – and not popular – votes that matter!

Upon learning that she had lost the nomination, Hillary chose not to speak about her willingness to support the nominee and move forward on his behalf, but instead launched into one of her boilerplate campaign speeches, reminding America of all her socialist hopes for our country, and repeating, ad nauseum, that she had won the popular vote.

She ended her remarkably ungracious speech by telling the audience that she was taking the next few days to "think about” what she had to do to go forward.

What does that mean? To me, it means that Hillary fully intends to go all the way to the Democrat convention in Denver, Colorado, and to use the Clintons’ legendary “scorched earth” strategy to bury Obama. Never mind the buzz that she will “suspend” her campaign on Friday. To “suspend” it is not to end it! The very word reeks of Clinton manipulation and suggests that she’s using it to buy time in order to sharpen her machete.

The idea that Hillary become Obama’s VP – ostensibly because he couldn’t possibly win in November without her “women’s” vote – has dominated the airwaves, with Clinton flak Lanny Davis even launching an online petition to drum up support.

But as even the politically disinterested know, if Obama made this choice, he would need a full-time food-taster!

On Tuesday night, Obama had the perfect opportunity to cut off the head of the snake of the Clinton Machine. This would have told the American electorate all they needed to know about the way Mr. Change and Hope would deal with America’s enemies.

Instead, he left the testicular fortitude to Hillary.

Nevertheless, Obama is not only the Democrat nominee, but he is now the de facto head of the Democrat Party and the Democratic National Committee. The idea that he needs Hillary’s “women’s” vote is ridiculous. As a diehard conservative, I can say categorically that even hypnosis could never compel me to pull the lever for a liberal. In the same way, Hillary’s voters will never pull the lever for a Republican.

As for Obama striking a deal with the loser by paying the bills she racked up in her woefully mismanaged campaign, this too is ridiculous. If he capitulates to Hillary’s “I’m entitled” demand, what will he do with the Draconian demands of Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

You don’t need Hillary’s “women’s” vote, Sen. Obama, and you don’t need to pay her bills. You need to cool it with your high-falutin’ Ivy League talk and find yourself some cujones!