There are those in the Obama camp who believe that they never had it so tough once Mrs Clinton had left the stage.

Some reports from the Obama camp suggest a national security team could be named by the end of the week.

The Obama camp, ahead in pledged delegates, advocated that superdelegates follow the will of the voters and back whichever candidate had the most pledged delegates.

I can only imagine the licking of lips going on in the Obama camp at the choice of legitimate attack material Romney has gifted them over the years.

Nonetheless, the Obama camp is well aware that Mr Clinton could provide crucial assistance on the campaign next year as their candidate struggles to win re-election.

It's ridiculous for the anti Obama camp to jump all over this as though it somehow points to a personal failing of the president.

"Look, if it doesn't work out, then hopefully the nominee will get over it," he told one donor in discussing the possibility of a Clinton victory and its ramifications for the Obama camp.

In what the Obama camp called a coup, Mr. Spielberg lent his name to the Feb. 20 event.

Ferraro resigned from Clinton's finance committee on March 12, 2008, two days after the firestorm began, saying that she didn't want the Obama camp to use her comments to hurt Clinton's campaign.

The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had "worked aggressively behind the scenes" to push the story.