Obama needs to make peace with the Clinton campaign if he wants to win in the fall

[Onlooker]

[flor de jasmim]

1. But if they want to keep the tarnish off their legacy, the Clintons should "make nice"

[Ron Green]

2. Obama WILL make peace with the Clinton campaign, because that's leading by example.

No matter how nasty the attacks that came from her side, the new way of doing politics must model adult behavior. I think that's what Obama's effort is all about.

[BlooInBloo]

3. I can't wait to hear what the Clinton campaign staffers say after she quits.

[Triana]

4. THEY make 'war' with him and it's up to HIM to make 'peace' with them?

How's that?

I think the Clintons need to save themselves. And I think Obama can win without them - and I'm not sure that isn't the ONLY way he can win.

EDIT: Obama will do what a gentlemen and statesman will do - I expect he will be even-handed and gracious in how he handles the Clintons as he has been thus far. But IMO, he "owes" them no olive branch. Quite the opposite.

[Onlooker]

8. Yep, sort of like us with Iraq

We make war with them, and now it's up to us to make peace. Seems counterintuitive, true, especially if you believe to the victor goes the spoils.

[bigtree]

5. I think he's doing an outstanding job of holding that all together at this point

I expect nothing but the best behavior from him. I don't expect I'll be disappointed. He's a good Democrat and a gentleman.

[MikeDJohn]

6. I have seen Obama supporters make war on Hillary, But how has

Obama made war on her? Obama always speaks glowingly of her abilities and her tough campaigning for something she believes in!

Hillary on Obama? Not so much glowing rhetoric, in fact, very little at all.

Now who needs to "make peace" with whom?

[TahitiNut]

11. Yup. Lots of crooked finger pointing going on.

:shrug:

[bowens43]

7. That's ass backwards, Clinton needs to make the peace

after all, she is the one who campaigned from the gutter. Obama has been nothing but gracious to hillary and supporters throughout this primary. He will continue to be gracious.

[kenny blankenship]

9. It's not even possible until the Clintons show that they desire it

They have to stop attacking him first of all, wrap up their campaign and begin to support him the way normal ex-candidates support the nominee. Until then the best thing for Obama to do, the only thing to do, is to go on ignoring them and their divisive rhetoric.

[tularetom]

10. He doesn't need to but he probably will

and in the process he will make her look even more helpless and spiteful than ever.

I think the clinton "campaign" will implode in the next couple of weeks.

[Tippy]

12. I am sure he will try...but I am not sure Hillary will do the same

Everytime I hear her make comments about Obama she usually speaks with a froked toung

[MercutioATC]

13. No, he needs to continue to sell himself to ALL voters.

Singling the Clinton campaign out is ridiculous. Their candidate lost...it's time to get on board.

I'd have expected the same if the situation was reversed. We're Dems. Our nominee shouldn't have to coddle us to have us vote against the Repub in the GE.

[invictus]

14. There is no "making peace" with the Clintons. They only help themselves. As Hillary herself said ...

"You are either with us, or against us." If you not for increasing the Clintons' power, enriching them, or glorifying their shameful presidential legacy, then you might as well be dead to them.

[endarkenment]

15. How exactly is the Obama campaign supposed to do that?

What is your suggestion for 'making peace'?

[Jamastiene]

16. Nope, he can do it without us.

If you don't believe me... well, the poll results are speaking for themselves.

[endarkenment]

17. Not voting, or not voting Democratic?

[redqueen]

18. Uh... it's not Obama or his campaign calling Hillary and her supporters "elitist".

How does the candidate who's not taking pot shots "make peace" with the campaign that is, despite the fact that they've already lost?

[CakeGrrl]

19. Another post made on Opposite Day...

Talk to the people throwing the kitchen sink and all the garbage in it if you want to get to the source of the 'war'.

[DearAbby]

20. Obama has done nothing to divide this party

Clinton has. Clinton needs to make peace...Her supporters need to see how divisive the clinton campaign really was (is)

[rucky]

21. Why not Kucinich, Gravel, Dodd, Richardson, Biden & Edwards camps?

they lost, too

[Anexio]

22. I said, FALSE

Obama doesnt need to make peace but I think he should make peace.

Not sure how he can do that though. Clinton seems a little bit bitter.