The Tennessee Republican Party issued this press release today, in the wake of Barack Obama’s hesitance to denounce, or reject, anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan’s support in last night’s debate. Obama’s Muslim heritage poses so great a threat that the press release felt it was proper to use his full name: “The Tennessee Republican Party today joins a growing chorus of Americans concerned about the future of the nation of Israel, the only stable democracy in the Middle East, if Sen. Barack Hussein Obama is elected president of the United States.” [Update below!] And guess which photo they used to illustrate this point? MORE »

Christmas came ten months early this morning, when the Internet’s Matt Drudge claimed that some Clinton staffers had circulated this fantastic photo over the weekend of Barack Obama in his element on a trip to Kenya in 2006. Obama campaign manager David Plouffe slammed the Clinton campaign for “shameful offensive fear-mongering,” when really it’s just kind of funny. [Drudge Report]

It was weeks ago when we first learned about the Allen campaign push polls that asked potential voters how they’d feel if they learned that Democratic challenger Jim Webb referred to a woman or women as “thunder thighs.” And now, finally, we learn what the hell they’re talking about:

Webb referred to female midshipman at Annapolis as “thunder thighs.” (Baltimore Sun, 8/28/92)

ONCE AGAIN (we’re super responsible today, what with all this research), our exclusive investigation into this is after the jump.

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