Obama Campaign Responds to Clinton’s Latest E-Mail
I’m not on the mailing list for either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, but damn if this response from the Obama campaign to Clinton’s latest e-mail message isn’t fun to read (Clinton message in regular text, Obama campaign response in brackets and bold):
To: Interested Parties
From: Clinton Campaign
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Re: Keystone Test: Obama Losing Ground [Get ready for a good one.]The path to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue goes through Pennsylvania so if Barack Obama can’t win there, how will he win the general election?
[Answer: I suppose by holding obviously Democratic states like California and New York, and beating McCain in swing states like Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Virginia and Wisconsin where Clinton lost to Obama by mostly crushing margins. But good question.]
After setbacks in Ohio and Texas, Barack Obama needs to demonstrate that he can win the state of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is the last state with more than 15 electoral votes on the primary calendar and Barack Obama has lost six of the seven other largest states so far — every state except his home state of Illinois.
[If you define "setback" as netting enough delegates out of our 20-plus-point wins in Mississippi and Wyoming to completely erase any delegate advantage the Clinton campaign earned out of March 4th, then yeah, we feel pretty setback.]
Pennsylvania is of particular importance, along with Ohio, Florida and Michigan, because it is dominated by the swing voters who are critical to a Democratic victory in November. No Democrat has won the presidency without winning Pennsylvania since 1948. And no candidate has won the Democratic nomination without winning Pennsylvania since 1972.
[What the Clinton campaign secretly means: PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT WE'VE LOST 14 OF THE LAST 17 CONTESTS AND SAID THAT MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA WOULDN'T COUNT FOR ANYTHING. Also, we're still trying to wrap our minds around the amazing coincidence that the only "important" states in the nominating process are the ones that Clinton won.]
And there’s much more where that came from over at NPR.
Obama’s press/communication people are snarkalicious. That’s a good thing.
Only because I’ve been out of the loop for a while because of my living situation can anyone inform me of the origins/why this was sent out or communications of thit kind were going on for a while? BTW, that whole issue between Obama and Canada has slplit parliament wide open. Stephane Dion, leader of her majesty’s official opposition has demanded an inquiry into the matter in Parliament (which could result in head’s rolling in the Canadian government). I can’t wait to see how this plays out on both sides of the border (I live in Ontario at the moment)