To save Obama the trouble of issuing a response, will offer the boiler plate. As you read it, imagine Whine-O presenting it to fawning reporters.

"Once again my campaign is being asked to waste time and effort responding to these distractions. Allow me to remind people that, just because my wife is friends with a terrorist fund raiser, and just because the official blogger of my campaign is a Marxist doesn't mean that I endorse or subscribe to those views.

I happen to know a guy who drives a Hummer - that doesn't mean I endorse the eco-terrorism that he does.

We are busy trying to save the world and these silly distractions don't belong in the new politics that we practice.

By the way, did you know that Hillary is a lesbian?"