[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.]

I’m sorry, but the notion that Obama would fake Bin Laden’s death for political advantage … 18 months before the election … is uncommonly stupid, even as stupid conspiracy theories go. All other objections to the theory aside, the simple and obviously reality is that, if he was going to do something like that, it would make absolutely no sense whatsoever to do it now. The alternate-universe conspiratorial Obama would obviously have done it last fall, or would wait until next summer/fall. This is almost literally the least logical point on the entire political calendar to “Wag the Dog” in such a fashion.