Reply #11: All you have to do is look at the timing and ask cui bono?

[TheDoorbellRang]

I already suspect this is so, and have said this here and here.

The media likes its political sh*tstorms but one can also notice that the public has a rather limited attention span. Best to do these as close to election time as possible: eg., NAFTAgate, Swiftboaters.

For the Clinton camp, optimum release time would have been the week before PA primary.

For the McCain camp, optimum release time would be August -- assuming Obama would have sat on his hands and done nothing to diffuse.

For the Obama camp, optimum release time would be...right now! Right after a whole slew of primaries where he is already ahead, and with weeks to go in which to diffuse, or de-fuse, the stinkbomb. Notice the Rezco debunking by Obama was done the same day -- two stinkbombs in de-fuse mode at the same time.

IMO, Obama is one wily chessplayer.