A pretty petty thing for Obama to say; it almost sounds like a threat. Maybe he should look at why he clearly is not the choice among registered Democrats in the Primary. It's not just because of Bill Clinton's popularity among Democrats.

Democrats have not warmed up to Obama, and seemingly are cooling off as we go deeper into this process.  Obama can be excused that he believes that they would move on over to him, but I don't think that is very certain.  Obama would lose a lot of the women who have come out just for Clinton, many voting for the first time in their lives.  A lot of them would remove themselves from the process again, especially given that their choice remaining would be Obama, the guy who bashed Hillary and Bill as liars.  That will definitely leave some hard feelings amongst her most loyal supporters.  There are also many Gays and Lesbian voters who have no use for Obama for reasons already discussed.  He would not just take them all over, some would just not bother.  Hispanics as a group are not very interested in Obama, and the lunch-pail Democrats (making under $50,000) are also very apprehensive about Obama.   On the other hand, Obama has what groups?  Youth voters?  Hillary is very strong in that segment in her own right, for a good chunk of the year she actually led in the youth voter demo.  She should have no problem getting most of them to come over to her.  The same is true for AAs, who have always had a special affinity for Hillary and Bill Clinton and should come to us in numbers we have seen in the past (94% or so voting Democratic.)  Leaves Indies, and it remains to be seen how they react to a Hillary candidacy.  

Overall, it looks as if Hillary would be more likely to pick up most of Obama's support, with the natural Clinton constituency groups somewhat less likely to be as reliably "there" for Obama.  

Well, Obama can take this loyal Dem for granted, to be perfectly honest.  But still, it's a rude thing to say.

I do think the people who are like "all my friends will stay home if Hillary is the nominee" need to look more closely at the actual numbers.  All the candidates have very high approval numbers among Dems.

Here's the video:

http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/308380.aspx

The guy just oozes arrogance when he says it.

Obama is proving himself more and more to be an egotistical ass.  

I have never in my life heard a Democratic candidate even HINT that his supporters would not of course support the nominee.

It's a tacit threat, an attempt to strongarm the party, and shows all the pure selfish ugliness that is under all that pretty speech.

He is losing support with Dems like crazy.   The Party needs to wake up, or they are going to have an Independent running with a token D beside his name.  Liebermann, anyone?

He is NOT the choice of the Democratic party. Oh, and he's also lying.  The latest Rasmussen has his negatives HIGHER than Hillary's.  He's at 51%, She's at 50%.  

I'll still vote for him, but the comment still rankles me. Is it too much to expect someone running for the freaking Democratic nomination to tell people why Democratic ideas are better than Republican ones? As Howard Dean would say, I want someone who represents the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party. If he talks like this now, what's he going to sound like during the general election?

That really irked me- as if he's saying he won't campaign for her if he loses or ask his supporters to forgive and forget and support the Democratic nominee.  It was just very pompous- of course we know his standard procedure by now and if he is criticized for it, he'll say "that's not what I meant."