Once a well-oiled machine that seemed to be able to do no wrong, it now demonstrates that it has a remarkable and bizarre instinct for the capillaries. I mean, honestly; who cares if Obama voted “Present” a bunch of times as an Illinois state legislator. Does the Clinton campaign really want to get into that? Because I can promise you that there have been more than a few occasions where Senator Clinton herself has voted “Present” on legislation. Does she really think that voters are going to base their choices on who took cover at what time under the umbrella of Robert’s Rules of Order or other authorities concerning parliamentary procedure?

Just watch: After the Obama campaign responds to this, we will have a “Whatever happened to the ‘politics of hope’?” emission from the Clinton machine. Because, of course, when Barack Obama started using the word “hope” in campaigns, what he really meant was “I’m going to drop my fists to my sides and let my political opponents use me as a punching bag. God knows, it’s the only honorable thing to do.”

By the way, for those of you too young to remember, this is indirect evidence demonstrating just how terrible George Herbert Walker Bush’s re-election campaign was in 1992. Weren’t the Clintons supposed to get better at campaigning as time went by?