Clinton's Luke-warm Denial of the Obama Muslim Rumors

Events of the last couple of days have finally made sense of Clinton's weirdly diffuse denial of the Obama Muslim rumors. When I first saw her denial, I thought "Wow, that was a little weird," but I didn't really think much of it. It's not what I myself would have said in her position, but meh. But in light of subsequent events, I guess the most plausible hypothesis is that she intentionally gave the most tepid denial she could get away with in order to allow the rumors to maintain some life.

This is some unbelievable stuff.