Bill Richardson Offers an Olive Branch?

Some might have thought that Richardson's statement today:

"There are some who speak of a team of rivals. But I've never seen it that way. Past competitors, yes. But rivals implies something harder edged and less forgiving."

Was directed at Obama or the overall premise of this "team of rivals" mentality that has been recently pushed in the media. Chris Cillizza believes this message was for the Clintons.

I'm not sure, he could be correct or this could be Richardson doing what has been done by the President-elect recently, trying to downplay some of the things said on the campaign trail. We saw this clearly the other day when the questions concerning Obama and his campaign staff's past comments about Hillary's foreign experience be poo poo'd as the media "just trying to have fun".