Vermont’s Independent U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has declined to endorse a presidential candidate…until now.

Ol’ Bernardo finally let his ol’ cat out of the bag this week – to the people of France, well, actually to the readers of Le Monde .

Sen. Barack Obama is his candidate.

Le Monde Capitol Hill writer Corine Lesnes ends her piece on Vermont’s one-of-a-kind senator with a little insight into things to come down Washington-way in January.

Cheer up, folks. Time to pull together. Brighter days ahead.

Here’s a translation of the kicker on Corine’s Le Monde piece:

“Bernie” and his group of progressive friends in Congress are already working on a program for first 100 days of 2009: medical coverage for all, reduction in military spending, reform of trade agreements, and the end of the war in Iraq … “I told Barack Obama not to worry for its first three months, we have already prepared the ground for him”, said “Bernie”.

Also… I caught this license plate down the block the other day.

Nice.

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Peter Freyne, 1949-2009, wrote the weekly political column "Inside Track," which originated in the Vanguard Press in the mid 1980s; he brought it to Seven Days in 1995. He retired it shortly before his death in January, 2009. We all miss him.