So, the buzz is that Hillary is open to being on the ticket with Obama. This may, in fact, be true. But what also appears to be true is that Hillary Clinton, her husband, and her supporters feel as if she's been treated shabbily by the Obama campaign and the press.

These feelings have no doubt been heightened in the last 48 hours when Obama's surrogates went out of their way - needlessly, many have added - to strip Hillary of 4 delegates in the Michigan compromise at the DNC Rules Committee on Saturday and by the gratuitous hit piece on Bill Clinton by Todd Purdum in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. The Clintons have held the levers of power in the Democratic party and held sway with the media for the better part of two decades, and in the span of two days we've seen them lose total control.

Maybe Clinton will push to be on the ticket because there really is no downside for her. If Obama wins, she's in line to succeed him in eight years (despite the fact she'll be 69 years old), and if he loses she'll again take the mantle as the early and prohibitive favorite for the nomination in 2012.

Even if Clinton knows Obama doesn't want her, by dropping public hints that she's open to joining him - as she appears to have done this evening - she inoculates herself against the charge that she's not a team player or that she's unwilling to unite the party.

Who knows how this will all play out. One thing to keep in mind as we are inundated with stories about the historic nature of Obama winning the nomination: he won't officially be the nominee until Clinton releases her delegates and they are all counted in Denver on August 28.