Azizi said,

Ashley Todd lied because she thought that inciting racial fears and anger would benefit the McCain campaign.

Perhaps. Or perhaps in part.

I'm tempted to suspect that the real story of the cutting is something she didn't want to get out for other reasons, and she seized on the political possibilities as an afterthought, as a way of covering up the "real story".

Still just as discreditable, of course, but to me more believable.

Dave Oesterreich