Letters to the Editor
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a pox on her house
This (along with her campaign's push to seat the MI and FL delegates after-the-fact) is ultimately why I do not support Hillary Clinton for the nomination, and will hold my nose for her in the general election should she get the Democratic nod.
I could live with her high negatives, with the irrational Clinton-haters, with her weak defenses of her indefensible stance on the war, with her toadying to corporate power, and so on. Even with those, she's still light years better than the Republican candidates (Even McCain. His nose isn't browned from Dubya's sphincter for nothing, folks!).
But her campaign (and her campaign's backers) making up a fake controversy over these "present" votes (which were a pretty astute political ploy, by the way) is beyond the pale. It seeks to confuse the facts surrounding a crucial women's issue (an issue where one could argue that Obama could considered her better).
It's straight out of the Rove playbook, and it cheapens her and insults the intelligence of the electorate. And it should give every Democrat pause, regardless of what combination of chromosomes you have.