The day before Missouri's Democratic primary, a mailer zipped across the state from "Paid for by Hillary Clinton for President" in Arlington, Va.

It came with this charge against Sen. Barack Obama: "He wants to raise Social Security taxes by a trillion dollars."

Now if that didn't set older tongues wagging, nothing will. Few had time to check this out before the Feb. 5 vote. In politics, timing is everything.

I phoned Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri ...

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