[MRM]

What was so bad about that ad in the first place to make it so controvertial? I thought it was clever and well done. It didn't say anything untrue about Hillary and didn't even suggest things that aren't said out loud all the time.

Did anyone seriously think that anyone but an Obama supporter had done it? It was a pro Obama ad, for goodness sakes. It's not like it was hiding whose sympathies it was out for. There was no reason to think that any Republican had anything to do with it. It just didn't make sense to think it was anything but an independent production by some Obama supporter.

A hatchet job by the RNC would have looked completely different and would have exploded in a way that made both Hillary and Obama look bad. A perfect example is the rumors that Obama once attended a madras in Indonesia as a student. Turns out that the rumors were not only false but were planted by someone close to Hillary's campaign. My understanding is that this much has been established and is not seriously disputed anymore, but I might be behind the times. But a good Republican hatchet job would have been to plant the madras story and then lay it at the feet of Hilary, thus discrediting both campaigns and getting them to start shooting at each other. The Apple rip off add for Obama doesn't do anything like that and therefore does not make for likely Republican sabotage.