Today's campaign flap

Matt Drudge, the celebrated internet gossip who broke the Lewinsky scandal, is reporting that Clinton staffers are emailing around a photo of Barack Obama dressed as a Somali elder and bemoaning that if this was a shot of Hillary it would be on the front of every magazine. The reason this is so controversial is that it appears to be playing into a whole bunch of smears that are doing the rounds that play up Obama’s middle name and make wild—and false—charges about his religious beliefs.