Clinton campaign sneakily pushed the Obama/Colbert story.

Well, during the last day or so behind the scenes, the Clinton folks, who play hardball, have been shopping around to some writers (not this one) a story idea that a couple of prominent Obama supporters had lobbied the South Carolina Democratic Party's executive council last week to keep Stephen Colbert off the state's primary ballot, which they succeeded in doing.

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No matter how persuasive the Obama supporters were, it seems unlikely they were responsible for the overwhelming 13-3 vote against Colbert, who with his commercial sponsor and one-state national campaign was mocking South Carolina's primaries. He won't be on the Republican ballot either. Colbert made another publicity spectacle out of abandoning his campaign. And, hopefully, the country will be able to heal.

But, anyway, what's wrong with a candidate's representatives expressing an opinion about another candidate to party officials?