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As I said last Thursday in response to a War Room post wondering whether Obama's vote was "calculated" (not saying my thought was particularly original):
"Too many democratic senators had been drawn into the illegal acts. They had to vote for this travesty to save their own skins. Other democrats had to worry about the larger damage to the party that would occur when it became known the levels of complicity that existed between the dems and repubs in allowing these illegal actions. Obama was forced to hold his nose and vote for this for the good of the party as well as to buy/keep the full throated support of the senators who he will need to bring in votes in the fall. This was the calculation, not some calculation regarding repubs hitting him later on security, though that may well have been a secondary thought (suppose there is a terrorist attack before the election - imagine the hay that might be made out of a vote against this then).
