[This is a bit of a follow-up to a previous post about disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters and Democratic unity behind Obama.]

At a fundraiser, Hillary Clinton answered a question about allowing her delegates to vote for her at the Democratic Convention (echoing the goal of The Denver Group, the grassroots pro-Hillary organization responsible for the video in my previous post) by saying she believed that entering her name for consideration and allowing delegates to vote their conscience — instead of holding a simple roll-call voice vote — would actually help party unity.

“”I happen to believe that we will come out stronger if people feel that their voices were heard and their views were respected,” … “I think that is a very big part of how we actually come out unified.

“I know from just what I’m hearing that there’s incredible pent-up desire, and I think that, you know, people want to feel like, ‘OK, it’s a catharsis, we’re here, we did it, and then everybody get behind Sen. Obama.”’ Clinton told the California crowd. “That is what most people believe is the best way to go.”

In the video, Sen. Clinton also goes on to emphatically refute one supporter’s hopeful “what if” question of a possible surprise nomination for Clinton if some delegates change their minds, laughing and saying “That’s not going to happen.”

However, ABC News is reporting that Sen. Clinton’s people are still locked in a heated battle with the DNC and Obama’s campaign over Clinton’s visibility at the convention. Another ABC story notes that Clinton’s refusal to rule out letting her delegates vote may be a potential “bargaining chip” that she is holding over party officials to get a more prominent role.

David Axelrod, Obama’s chief campaign strategist, insists that “we’re gonna work this out.”

**UPDATE: Time’s Karen Tumulty also examines lingering resentment from the Clintons and Hillary supporters:

“For so many of my supporters, just like so many of Barack’s supporters, this was a first-time investment of heart and soul and money and effort and sleepless nights and miles of travel,” Clinton said. “You just don’t turn it off like that.”

Those comments — now playing in clips on YouTube—speak to not only the bruised feelings of Clinton’s many supporters. Embedded in those remarks, say friends and advisers, are hints of Clinton’s own feelings in the aftermath of a race in which she fought so hard and still fell short….

…But behind the united front, says an adviser, “it’s not a great relationship, and it’s probably not going to become one.” In private conversations, associates say, Clinton remains skeptical that Obama can win in the fall. That’s a sentiment some other Democrats believe is not just a prediction but a wish, because it would prove her right about his weaknesses as a general-election candidate and possibly pave the way for her to run again in 2012.

**UPDATE 2: And speaking of controversy over a former candidate’s role at the convention…Hillary isn’t alone: “Tabloid’s claims threaten Edwards’ role at party’s convention.”