Reply #23: I've got a notion

[TheDoorbellRang]

that it was the Obama campaign itself that put this out there right now.

If these videos had come out with such a splash early on, it would have sunk him before he even got started. If the Clinton campaign wanted to play "gotcha" with them, they would have surfaced in the week just before the PA primary. McCain would have played them out in swiftboat season -- August. From the Obama campaign's POV, it's surfaced at the optimum time: right past one string of primaries and now six weeks to diffuse before the next one. And he is diffusing it beautifully.

Over and over in this campaign he's run circles around the opposition. The only time the other side scored was the NAFTA smear right before OH and TX. I think this is just the latest example showing he is a master of the political chess game. I am more and more impressed every day.