Hillary can’t very well run herself as Obama the Second. Of course she’ll have to distance herself.
Now Team Obama jabs at Her THighness to give fair warnings early. They are still in control, and she’s just a famous private citizen (albeit a very powerful one).
Both sides had it coming.
She has been running as jeb's! siamese twin - a darling of Soros, the crony faction of Wall St. and the Chamber of Commies.
With Bernie barking at her cankle drapped heels, she's had to re-launch lefter and re-re-launch lefterist. But the conundrum for her is, as you said, distancing herself from homobama without alienating the dem base (funny how their party actually seems to give a rat's a.. about their base vs the GOPe).
I would guess that homo is a closet bernie boy in the absence of a commitment from the squaw from Scandinavia, so of course he's going to let slip the dogs of JustUs.
cankles won't go down without a fight though. It will be entertaining - this mafia war between the gangs of Chicago. The union gimmedats vs the welfare dimmirats.