Opinion: Is Sigmund Freud actually supporting Hillary Clinton?

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Rep. Joe Sestak is in his first House term from Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District. Before that, the Democrat spent 31 years in the U.S. Navy, ending up as a three-star admiral. So he’s a little new at this live TV interview stuff.

Andrea Mitchell was talking with him on MSNBC a little while ago and naturally focused on his party’s ongoing, increasingly bitter and divisive political struggle to capture the presidential nomination in what started out to be a very positive looking year for the Democratic Party’s recapturing of the White House.

Mitchell wondered out loud to Sestak if the fight between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton continued all the way up until the Democratic National Convention in Denver in late August, might this rip the fractious party apart with little time left for healing before the Nov. 4 general election?

Sestak, who’s endorsed Clinton in his state’s April 22 party primary, said no, he really didn’t think so.

He thought if Clinton won the nomination, Obama would turn right around and loyally tell his people, ‘Support her.’ Whereas if Obama won the nomination, Clinton would turn right around and say, ‘Support me.’

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Then he caught himself. ‘Support him,’ Sestak quickly added.

-- Andrew Malcolm