CaribWorldNews, NEW YORK, NY, Weds. June 4, 2008: Just moments after U.S. Senator Barack Obama, was declared the presumptive Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, Caribbean American media practitioners were adamant that Senator Hillary Clinton should not be his  choice for vice president.

Media workers CWN spoke with were thrilled at the historic nomination of the son of an African migrant but insisted that Obama should put any thoughts of taking Clinton on his ticket out of his head.

`I don’t think she can give him anything he can’t do by himself,` said Jamaican journalist Stan Smith.  `What she needs to do is to campaign for him and she can do that and be truly effective without being on the ticket.`

`No way,` added Shaun Walsh, executive producer of Whatz Up New York. `She has her own agenda and her and Bill (Clinton) will out stage him… Plus they have way too much baggage.` 

Radio broadcaster Ron Bobb-Semple agrees. `I feel that it could create chaos because you know Bill (Clinton) will be right there and he could be destructive in this process,` added the Tampa-based Guyanese national. 

Senator Clinton last night admitted defeat but failed to concede.

But despite how the media workers feel about Clinton, last night they were brimming with pride on Obama being the presumptive nominee.

`I am happy for him as a candidate who ran a very, very skillful campaign,` said the Washington-based Smith. But he added that he now wants to see Obama run a general election campaign and speak more directly on foreign policy. `He needs to deliver a serious foreign policy speech,` said Smith, and draw on the experience of military and foreign policy experts.

Bobb-Semple called the Obama lead in delegates `a touching moment in the history of this world.`

`It is so unprecedented it gives you goosebumps … to know this man from whence he came to rise to this level, it is historical,` he added.

Walsh too was brimming with excitement. `I’m very excited but I want to see what role Clinton will play in getting him elected and what our elected officials who endorsed her will do now he’s the obvious nominee.`

Obama for his part last night stressed the theme of unity in front of 17,000 supporters in St. Paul`s, Minnesota, urging them to put Americans first. And he insisted he was ready to take on McCain, who earlier in the night poked fun at Obama`s policy of `change.`

`This is our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face… our time to offer new direction to this country we love… God Bless You,` added Obama.

Obama last night reached the 2,110 delegates he needed to wrap up the nomination.