KELSEY COLLIER-WISE — Crossposted to DakotaWomen.

While Hillary isn’t my #1 candidate, I really do want to like her. A lot of friends and people I respect are Hillary fans and I want to understand what they see in her. But when she pulls crap like this, it’s really difficult for me. If she wants to point out the differences between her positions and Obama’s, that’s fine. But there is no question that in this case, she (or someone working on her behalf) purposely distorted his record for political gain. The local Planned Parenthood has explicitly said they asked him to vote this way and he did. If anything, this shows his commitment to the pro-choice movement. For NOW to assert that because he went with his local Planned Parenthood’s strategy instead of theirs, he’s somehow not totally pro-choice is the height of B.S. If they were honest, there’s plenty in Hillary ‘every abortion is a tragedy’ Clinton’s record that they could take issue with as well.

Admittedly, Hillary being a woman is a plus for her as a candidate in my book. But that doesn’t mean she gets a pass for every misstep she’s ever taken or that she can engage in whatever Rove-like tactics she wants in the name of winning.