Reuters, quoting Susan Sheybani, “an assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt.”

When questioned about this, her response: “Oh, I was just kidding.”

Yeah. Sure.

Saw a pointer to this in the Salon article on John Kerry’s speech to the DNC. Thought it deserved more play, as an example of the underlying attitudes held by the Bush/Cheney campaign.

—Thomas Leavitt, posting from Santa Cruz, CA