A picture is worth a thousand words. Had they not forced Hilary to publicly decide not to attend - and at this point I believe she was forced by the party not to attend.
Obama would have lost many more Hilary Supporters.
The images of Hilary and Sarah standing together fighting Iran would have done alot of harm to Zero.
To a degree I once would have thought impossible, the Obama/Daley/Kennedy wing of the Democrat party has been making HRC grab the wiping end of the stick in public. Whatever they are offering (keeping the skeletons buried, giving her a good - but not actually powerful - job, etc) must make all that humiliation worthwhile.
Mr. niteowl77