Michael Goldfarb points out an Obama quote yesterday:

My goal is to have the best possible government. And that means me winning. So, I’m very practical in my thinking. I’m a practical guy. One of my heroes is Abraham Lincoln. Awhile back, there was a wonderful book written by Doris Kearns Goodwin called Team of Rivals, in which she talked about how Lincoln basically pulled all the people he’d been running against into his Cabinet. Because whatever personal feelings there were, the issue was, ‘How can we get the country through this time of crisis?’ I think that has to be the approach one takes to the vice president and the Cabinet.

Goldfarb argues with the substance of what Obama is saying, and rightly so. But the substance really doesn’t matter here. If Obama had been jumping up and down and shouting, “If we can work it out, Hillary will be my vice president,” he couldn’t have been more obvious.