A) If Hillary becomes McCain's VP she has to abandon pretty much EVERYTHING she ran on - universal health care, choice, equality, fairness in the tax code, getting out of Iraq.

B) If she for some reason decided that everything she ran on was NOT important, then she wouldn't be helping McCain heal or fix anything, since his platform is to stay in Iraq for a LONG time, keep W's horrible tax cuts for the wealthy, and to keep screwing the poor out of health care.

C) All of this is an exercise in futility, because can you imagine ANY Republicans voting for a McCain-Hillary ticket? ANY? They may get a chunk of the middle, but Obama would get ALL the Dems and the Repubs would stay home in disgust. If Hillary wants to guarantee an Obama win, this would be a good way to achieve it WHILE ALSO completely wiping out her entire future in the Senate or any political position (even as a Repub). In essence she'd be Lieberman to the 10th power.

So, in order for Hillary to heal the nation she needs to support Obama vigorously either as his VP or just a strong advocate and ally in the Senate or future cabinet, AND she needs to speak out STRONGLY AGAINST a McCain presidency that would CONTINUE NOT FIX the errors of the W presidency...