My suspicion is that she's out there in the background. This is just a taste of whats coming Obama's way if he doesn't accept her help. If he accepts her on the ticket, all this goes away and within a flash everyone agrees this was all a bunch of hokum, just right-wing black-helicopter stuff.
If he doesn't accept her help, the pressure ratchets up until he does.
My suspicion is that she's out there in the background.
The Clintons always operate by 'remote conrol' so they can maintain 'plausible deniability'.
Look back at how they have carefully kept their 'fingerprints' off a great many events (such as Vince Foster's demise).
They're downright good at it!