A picture of Barack Obama’s top speechwriter playfully "groping" a life-sized cardboard cutout of Hillary Clinton would have caused bitter accusations of sexism during the primary season.

The picture (left) of the 27-year-old beer-pong player/writer extraordinaire, Jon Favreau, was taken at a party and swept the Internet last week after the image was posted on Favreau’s FaceBook profile. But in a show of the new post-election Democratic political solidarity, the Clinton camp has humorously downplayed any anger or outrage over the photograph. Not only did Clinton make no big deal of it, her senior adviser, Philippe Reines, responded with wry humor in an e-mail, saying, "Senator Clinton is pleased to learn of Jon’s obvious interest in the State Department, and is currently reviewing his application," he said in an e-mail. "He did, in fact, apologize and, as you’d expect, it was beautifully written."