NPR: Obama Campaign vs. Clinton Campaign - The Clash of The Memos

[writes3000]

This kind of cracked me up. You think we get worked up here? Imagine what it must be like to work in the campaigns. Still, it made me laugh.

Obama Campaign Skewers Clinton E-mail Statement

Wednesday morning, the Clinton campaign sent reporters and bloggers covering the campaign a statement that consisted of questions and comments under the title of "Keystone Test: Obama Losing Ground."

The Obama campaign's communications department decided to annotate those questions and comments with some comments of their own... and boy, they held nothing back.

Below you'll find the annotated e-mail that has been making the rounds of the media. The Obama campaign's comments are in 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.)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/news/2008/03/obama_campaign_skewers_clinton.html

[Kittycat]

1. God I love their responses.

It's wonderful seeing some real humor injected in to this race. There's really no other way to take that memo seriously, except to be truthful and funny at the same time.

GOBAMA!