Campaigns everywhere are trying to raise some last minute cash before the quarterly campaign deadline. The award for the weirdest last minute fundraising bid goes, without a doubt, to Robin Carnahan.
The Carnahan brain trust just sent out a fundraising email complaining about "raking in money from Washington lobbyists, Big Oil and Wall Street interests."
You might be able to see this coming.
If you think that sounds strangely familiar, you probably heard her announcement yesterday that she would be hosting a pair of fundraisers with Barack Obama. One might recall that he was the nation's top recipient of BP campaign contributions or that the biggest private contributor for his presidential campaign was Goldman Sachs, who contributed just short of $1,000,000 to his campaign.
For good measure it might be worth pointing out that Obama also went back on one of his central campaign pledges and hired more than 40 lobbyists for top Obama administration jobs.
The contrast highlights what some have called a lack of moral clarity in Robin Carnahan's campaign - one that can't be smoothed over with poorly produced web videos.
And there it goes.
A lack of moral clarity has to be an understatement, given her refusal to discuss her past, ads that caught national attention for their misleading qualities, her brother's ties to BP and her transparent back-and-forth on whether she wants to be identified with Barack Obama.
What changed with Obama? One thought is that Carnahan thinks she can control the crowd in a private fundraiser: making sure that no one gets footage or pictures of her tied to a President with a sinking approval rating that might make its way into an advertisement.
In either case, it smells like desperation.
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