president obama is after all, an ex-president with 65% in independents. this is democrats and republicans giving democrats advice, echoing president obama, who warned about this before the campaign even got going at a town hall in berlin earlier this year. >> one of the things i do worry about sometimes among progressives in the united states, maybe it's true here as well, is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, ah, i'm sorry, this is how it's going to be. and then we start sometimes creating what's called a circular firing squad. where you start shooting at your allies because one of them is straying from purity on the issues. >> well, that sentiment is being echoed now. cnn political commentator paul