Has anyone mentioned that the Obama camp has played this precisely right? [View All]

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Come on, now. You know that the Obama camp did their own digging on every single potantial VP candidate, down to the dregs (and that's really where thoroughness came in handy!). They knew everything that's been circulating on Palin probably months ago. They have a file cabinet full of this stuff. So, what does Obama do on Friday?

He congratulates Palin, graciously, and continues on with his campaign.

A few surrogates get out their to express incredulity about the "experience" argument, possibly to bait the Mccain campaign into their increasingly wacky statements about Palin's national security creds.

But they know about trooper-gate, probably down to the fine grain.
They know about AIP, in all it's weirdo details.
They know about the various pregnancy rumors.
They know about the bridge to nowhere reversals.
They know everything.

But do they say anything about any of it? No. They welcome her to the race, and stay with the planned events, including a very successful 60 Minutes interview, during which they say little about Palin again. Meanwhile, a shitstorm is brewing all over the Internet about the very things they know. They don't have to be involved in any of it, and almost certainly weren't. They know how the Internet works. They know dirty will out on the Internet. So they wait. They campaign. They ignore it completely until somebody accuses them of being involved, at which point Obama says "No fucking sir. Not us. And cut the shit."

But dirty will out.

They know it.

It has been, again, a perfect political play.