if it’s 2007, it must be campaign season

Rudy’s camp is claiming dirty tricks (and McCain’s camp got off the best rejoinder: “I thought it was a security company“)

Meanwhile, on the other side of the race, Barack Obama is promoting his connubial bliss, with which a certain stern former First Lady cannot compete. Gawker, natch, has the best innuendo—along with some devastating supporting (photographic) evidence.   ———

*** The Times reports things rather differently:

Indeed, an adviser to one of his possible rivals in 2008, Senator John McCain of Arizona, half-joked yesterday that it was interesting that Mr. Giuliani’s businesses included security consulting.

“I’m surprised that something like that would ever leave the custody of a campaign, and that such raw and frank information would be around the countryside,” said the McCain adviser, John Weaver