Why would anybody - Obama in particular - care that much in the first place?

The US has dealt more or less cordially with troublesome allies in the past - President Charles de Gaulle, for example, who pulled France out of NATO at the height of the Cold War.

Obama - or the mystery puppeteers called "They" - would have to assume that Strauss-Kahn would almost certainly be elected (a big if right there) and then decide that if he were, his policies would be intolerable.

And since the pretend "victim" in such a scenario would have to stand up to cross-examination at the trial, they would have to make sure that her story could never, ever lead back to them.

But as we know from all the other conspiracy theories, you can't beat "Them" because they have godlike powers of omniscience and forethought and making sure that nothing ever goes wrong - except that their plots are so clumsy that guys making conspiracy videos in the basement can figure them out.

(And whatever the outcome of thsi case, "They" will have arranged it for their own ever-darkening purposes.)