Obama was off the campaign trail Friday, visiting his ailing grandmother in Hawaii.
But now he will campaign for his party's 2010 candidates from afar, holding fund raisers but not hitting the campaign trail in most of the contested RACES.
Instead of calling Mr Obama "naive and irresponsible", as she often had on the campaign trail, Mrs Clinton praised the Democratic nominee's "grit, determination and grace".
Most of the time, presidential debates feature the candidates repeating the same policy talking points they have uttered over and over again on the campaign trail.
Barack Obama got an unsolicited reminder of this on the campaign trail in 2008, when an off-the-cuff remark about the need to “spread the wealth around” provoked some shrill retorts.
On the campaign trail lately, Obama has been confronted by disillusionment — the woman who was “exhausted” defending him, the mother whose son campaigned for him but was now looking for work.
