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Yesterday, the Senate voted on a measure expressing support of the character and integrity of General David Petraeus: "(It is) the sense of the Senate that General David H. Petraeus, commanding general, Multi-National Force-Iraq, deserves the full support of the Senate and strongly condemn(s) personal attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all members of the United States Armed Forces."

The vote was 72-25, including 23 Democrats voting for it.

Interestingly, none of the Democratic candidates for President who are Senators voted for it: Clinton and Dodd voted against it, Biden and Obama were absent, even though Obama was clearly in the neighborhood as (Fox News reports) he voted against a similar measure 20 minutes earlier and he voted on another bill just two hours later, so he chose to dodge the hard vote.

Although this "sense of the Senate" did not mention MoveOn.org, that's clearly who it was targeting. What a great tactic by Texas Senator John Cornyn to bring this measure and make Clinton and friends decide between dishonoring our nation's top military officer and sucking up to the most prominent far-left group.

Cornyn gave Clinton, Obama, and friends the opportunity to show their true colors, and to little surprise they are yellow rather than red, white, and blue.

You can see how your Senator voted here:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00344