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Friday, July 25, 2008

Obama Already Using Berlin Speech Clips for Fundraising

Gosh - who is shocked about this? Certainly not me...

This is from Jake Tapper over at ABC...

Shortly after 6 pm Central time -- just a few hours after Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, gave his speech in Berlin, which his campaign insisted was not political -- his campaign manager, David Plouffe, sent out a fundraising solicitation using the speech to raise campaign cash.

"As you may have heard, Barack has been in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia this week," reads the email, with a big red "DONATE" sign. "Today, he spoke in Berlin, Germany. In a city where a wall once divided the free from the oppressed, he talked about tearing down the walls that divide all peoples so we can address our common problems -- the threats of terrorism and nuclear weapons, global warming and genocide, AIDS and poverty. Watch Barack's historic speech and share it with your friends."

The letter offers a link to the video and asks recipients to please "forward this email to your friends, family, and colleagues."

The Obama campaign took umbrage at Tapper's blog post. Tapper responded...

The campaign calls the above blog entry "misleading." You be the judge.

Well I thought they would at least wait until the weekend to crank up the PR Machine. So much for that "not a campaign speech" thing...

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