LOS ANGELES - The Golden State's First Lady, Maria Shriver, was in Los Angeles Wednesday for a Barack Obama gathering and her message to those still hanging on to the idea of Sen. Hillary Clinton becoming president was simple: Do what you have to do, but get over it and get over it quickly.

At a "Women for Obama unity cocktail reception" at the home of longtime Democratic activist and former studio head Sherry Lansing, Shriver didn't mince words according to a report in today's Los Angeles Times.

Many of the guests were firm Clinton supporters. Shriver, a backer of Barack Obama and the wife of celebrity governor and John McCain supporter Arnold Schwarzenegger, was there to help convince them that disappointment need not lead to defection.

"I know many of the people on McCain's campaign," she said. "A lot of them worked on my husband's campaign. I can tell you they're tough and they're organized. You must focus on the repair work. If you don't work to heal the rupture, the fight will be all that's remembered. .... No one did that in 1980 and we all know what happened: We lost that election."