Letters to the Editor
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There are perfectly good reasons to loathe Hillary
At the risk of dredging up an old argument, I'd like to point out that Hillary has not just been on the receiving end of the dirty politics game. She has been a willing participant in the mudslinging.
Take, for example, the contest in New Hampshire. Obama's volunteer army was reporting for the last few days that nearly everyone was asking about his stance on abortion--hardly a surprise, given how heavy-handed Hillary was in sending out mailers attacking Obama for voting 'present' on abortion legislation in Chicago. Never mind that Planned Parenthood specifically asked him to do so. Never mind that he wanted to vote 'no.' Never mind that he gets full marks for defending a woman's right to choose. No, she chose to play dirty and send out highly dishonest mailers, and that, my friends, is the rarely-heard story of New Hampshire's primary.
I consider that kind of political game a scumbag's tactic, and so I consider Hillary a scumbag. Were it, say, Janet Napolitano, or Kathleen Sebelius, or Claire McCaskill still out there campaigning, I might question her sanity, but assuming she hadn't played dirty the way Hillary did, I would certainly not loathe her.
Now, I highly doubt that everyone who loathes Hillary has a proper justification for it, but there are certainly legitimate reasons to be found.