When Hillary clinches the nomination, we promise not to rake you over the coals. Or to say "we told you so."

I once heard a young boy say he couldn't be president because that's what white people do.

I began this primary season thinking it was really important we elect a person of color so that young children can look up and dream that they, too can be president.

Obama was my candidate. But then.

From yesterday's Wall Street Journal, I learned superdelegates come in two stripes: 1) sitting politicians, and 2) everyone else.

Which ones have been endorsing candidates lately?

Although Sen. Obama has picked up the endorsement of about 150 superdelegates since early February, many of whom are sitting politicians, recently he has had better luck among nonelected superdelegates. They don't risk the ire of constituents who might have favored Sen. Clinton or another candidate.

A few hold-out pols hail from rural, conservative white districts, the WSJ says. And despite a nice fat contribution from the Obama PAC, some "$10,000 from the Illinois senator's political action committee, federal records show," one Senator facing a tough re-election race told reporters "don't hold your breath" waiting for her to endorse him.

Many of us have noticed Obama going negative since last summer. The most intense attack was a recent conference call in which Obama's team said a fellow Democrat lacked the integrity to lay a wreathe at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

But that didn't matter, because the press saw Obama as a new kind of politician who didn't go negative. Perception is reality. It's the entire premise of Obama's campaign: he may be thin on experience, but he's above the fray. And yet.

Today we see the third liberal publication in two days running a lead story on Obama's "nasty" negative campaigning in Pennsylvania. This undermines his entire argument. How will the voters react? How will the Superdelegates see this move? These things take time to sink in. We may not know for a few weeks.

FDR repealed prohibition, opening beer taps his first few days in office. It wasn't just his policies that pulled us out of the great depression, it was his confidence and optimism. He often threw his head back and laughed, the press called him a "sunburst".

While this race is by no means over, Hillary takes the time on a Saturday night to celebrate small victories and throw her head back on occasion. ABC News' Eloise Harper reports:

Sen. Hillary Clinton stopped by Bronko's Restaurant and Lounge in Crown Point, Ind., tonight. Clinton stood by the bar and took a shot of Crown Royal whiskey. She took one sip of the shot, then another small sip, then a few seconds later threw her head back and finished off the whole thing.

Clinton later sat down at a table and enjoyed some pizza and beer, and called over Mayor Tom McDermott of Hammond, Ind., to come join the table.

"Every time I get around you we start drinking, senator,"  the mayor exclaimed.

Clinton nodded and raised her glass.

"It's Saturday night, though, Tom," she said.

The senator was eager to get a slice of pepperoni.

She turned to her ABC and CBS embedded reporters. She acknowledged that they need something interesting and unusual to write about, so she gave them that.

It's been a long primary season and still over a week remains before the Pennsylvania primary, which could end it all or extend the race even further.

It's time for a break. For some levity. A card game.

Let's play Pinochle.

According to this website, Pinochle is a simple game involving tricks, trumps, bids, passing, and something called "laying down meld."

There are variations in how to play. The variations include single-deck, four-handed (four players), partnership (two teams of four), auction, racehorse, and a racehorse variation called cutthroat.

If it sounds tricky, fear not, as Pinochle resembles other common card games in that Pinochle is a trick-taking game, like Euchre, Bridge, Hearts, Spades, and even the children's game War.

Now, to get started we have to decide what kind of deck we're going to play with. Common is a 48-card deck, but there are variations.