Obama Weaves Silly Issue Of McCain’s Citizenship Into Gold

Obama may be a policy lightweight who uses flowery, feel-good rhetoric to cover up his radicalism but there’s no denying that he’s a deft politician. When the New York Times decided to make McCain’s birth on a US air base in the Panama Canal Zone an issue (some are trying to define the Constitution’s requirement that Presidents be “naturally born” Americans to only include citizens born within the borders of the US and not born to US citizens living, or deployed, abroad) I was quick to say that bringing up this issue was a good way to unite people behind McCain. After all, how more mean spirited can you get than to question the citizenship of a US Senator born (albeit while abroad) to the Admiral son of an Admiral?
Especially when that Senator spent five and a half years being tortured by Vietnamese socialists while serving his country?
But Obama has found the perfect way to defuse the issue. Rather than jump in with the ravenous left-wing hordes led by the Times down this rather stupid line of argument, Obama joined with Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill in sponsoring a bill (scrawled on note paper by McCaskill upon learning of the Times article) that would define “naturally born citizen” as including children born to deployed US troops.
A rather magnanimous gesture sure to inoculate Obama from the criticisms that are, and will be, flung at those questioning McCain’s citizenship.
Exit question: Was this entire story, which seemed too stupid for even the Times to run, a “set” to Obama and McCaskill’s “spike?” In other words, was this a set up to produce an absurd left-wing talking point that the left itself could attack in order to make its rather radical and far-to-the-left Presidential candidate look more mainstream?