From the LAT:

Hsu’s undoing began two weeks ago with articles raising questions about his fundraising activities in the Wall Street Journal and about a criminal case in his past in The Times. In his letter, said a person familiar with its contents who asked to remain anonymous, Hsu contended that those articles were planted “by a politician who pledged ‘hope and change’ “ — an apparent reference to Sen. Barack Obama, Clinton’s main rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.

“This is a sad and baseless allegation,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said. “We had no knowledge of his past criminal behavior, fugitive status or a potential straw-donor scheme until reading it in the newspaper.”

Is the LAT now attempting to pass the buck to Senator Obama here and make Hsu and Senator Clinton victims? I hope not as they have done some strong reporting on this issue to this point.

There does not appear to be any proof in the statement about Mr. Obama planting anything, just supposition.

I said in an earlier piece I wrote on this whole affair that I feared we might just have a teflon candidate in Mrs. Clinton. Has that begun to materialize?