Here we go again. First we had the "Hamas Favors Obama" story a few months ago, which the McCain campaign spun as a "terrorists love Obama" smear. This week we had the "Al Queda Endorses McCain" story, which the McCain campaign has desperately tried to present as a "reverse psychology because the terrorists love Obama" response.
I haven't seen this in the US press yet (or British, for that matter), but Al Jazeera is reporting now that we have Iran announcing that it would prefer to see an Obama presidency:
Tehran would prefer Barack Obama to be elected as the next US president in the November 4 poll, Ali Larijani, the speaker of Iran's parliament, has said.
"We are leaning more in favour of Barack Obama because he is more flexible and rational [than rival John McCain], even though we know American policy will not change that much," he said during a visit to Bahrain on Wednesday.
How to deal with Iran and the crisis over its nuclear programme has been one of the central foreign policy issues in the US election.
Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, has spoken about holding talks with the Iranian leadership "without precondition", a stance which has been ridiculed by McCain, his Republican rival.
Anyone want to guess how the McCain camp will try to spin this one? Yeah...I think we already know.