How's this for Obama's unity and hope?

Michelle Obama, on Good Morning America (rough transcript):

GMA: Could you see yourself working to support Hillary Clinton should she win the nomination?

MICHELLE OBAMA: I'd have to think about that. I'd have to think about that, her policies, her approach, her tone.

GMA: That's not a given?

MICHELLE OBAMA: You know, everyone in this party is going to work hard for whoever the nominee is. I think that we're all working for the same thing. And, you know, I think our goal is to make sure that the person in the White House is going to take this country in a different direction. I happen to believe that Barack is the only person who can really do that.

And it's clear that Michelle Obama and her husband are working from the same game plan:

"I'm confident that I will get her votes votes if I’m the nominee, it’s not clear that she would get the votes I got if she were the nominee.” - Barack Obama

I've said repeatedly that Democrats should stop the circular firing squad and quit providing the Republicans talking points to use against our nominee, whether it's Clinton or Obama. I've heard lots of Obama supporters, and now Senator and Mrs. Obama, indicate that they might not or will not support Hillary Clinton if she wins the nomination. I haven't heard Clinton or any Clinton supporters say that about Obama.

How's that Obama message of hope and unity and changing politics and looking towards the future looking now? I'll support Obama if he's the nominee, on the grounds that any Democrat is better than any Republican. Clearly, though, Obama doesn't think of loyalty in the same terms that I do.

If you're wondering why I used the Dewey for President button, it goes back to the 1948 campaign for president, when Harry Truman said that Thomas Dewey refused to take concrete positions on substantive issues, instead preferring to sell "a special brand of soothing syrup -- I call it unity." I could just as easily have gone with Bush in 2000, with his phony "uniter, not a divider" line.