He did the unthinkable, I mean those of us who followed the primary did see how Hillary and Obama teared each other apart, but then he appointed her as his secretary of state.
To paraphrase the Godfather, that was a matter of "keeping your friends close but your enemies closer."
If she didn't end up on BO's team, she would have knocked him as a talking head for four years. And he'd be looking at an uphill battle this week. She wouldn't have run against him. She'd never tear the party apart a la Teddy Kennedy in 1980. But she would have made his re-election an uphill climb this year.
I still don't believe there's any love lost there. But they're both smart enough to realize that other old proverb: The enemy of my enemy is my friend
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