While the Weekly Standard outdoes itself denying that the GOP has blood in its eye for Obama, this charming fellow — described as a "longtime, high-level Republican fundraiser" who has served as finance chairman for both the Florida and national party — emailed around this ha-ha-funny joke:

The joke concerns a group of schoolchildren discussing the definition of “tragedy” as opposed to “great loss” or “accident.” The punch line comes when one child says that if an airplane carrying Obama and his wife, Michelle, “was struck by a ‘friendly fire’ missile and blown to smithereens,” the event might be a tragedy “because it certainly wouldn’t be a great loss, and it probably wouldn’t be an accident either.”

Austin acknowledged sending the e-mail to his list of political contacts but said he forwarded it without fully reading it and didn’t know what it said. That list included at least two reporters.

Only kidding, right, guy? We wouldn’t want the Secret Service to come pay you a visit.