Appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation", Clinton senior strategist Howard Wolfson said McAuliffe is "absolutely right" that Clinton didn't want to apologize to Obama for the remark and said: "I think it was unfortunate to attack Senator Clinton's remarks without knowing fully what she had said."

Pretty clear why she is not likely to be Bam's selection for VEEP. Even Die-hard Clinton supporters immediately recognized and recoiled in horror by the remark. 

She rode the Obama "bitter" comment into the ground , including debate, stump speeches, television, radio and mailers.  Yet, when she has worse comments -- Bosnia (a clear lie), RFK (a false statement on primary length) not to mention the ghoulish subtext. She absolutely refuses to actually apologize to move beyond the controversy.

In addition, you can watch the whole interview, her comments are NOT taken out of context. She meant a long primary season -- the two examples are wrong, as numerous sources have stated. WJC had the nomination wrapped up after March, RFK had only participated in 13 primaries by June.

Her best tactic is to move beyond it. But, their group has thrown tactics to the wind a long time ago, and are just trying to hang on.