BHO

Theories are everywhere on the blogs about who pushed the photo of Obama in Somali garb to Drudge. I've seen claims that it was Clinton, that it was a Republican outfit of some sort and even that it was the Obama campaign. I don't have a theory myself, though I find it hard to believe it was Obama. But one thing is for sure: these are the kind of things we are going to see a lot of if Obama wraps up the nomination.

The Washington Post reported that at a McCain rally in Ohio, a right-wing talk show host, Bill Cunningham, repeatedly referred to Obama as "Barack Hussein Obama." From the article:

He used Obama's middle name two more times and referred to him as "a hack, Chicago-style Daley politician who's picturing himself as change. When he gets done with you, all you're going to have in your pocket is change."

He then mocked foreign policy statements of "Barack Hussein Obama," calling him the "fraud from Chicago" and saying that if Obama were to be elected president he would meet with the leaders of enemy nations. He said the "world leaders who want to kill us" will be "singing Kumbaya together around the table with Barack Obama."

The article said McCain did not respond to Cunningham's comments, but that he later said he will "make sure nothing like that ever happens again" and said "I absolutely repudiate such comments." I have a hard time believing the former.