Most campaigns either provide their external fundraisers with scripts to use or otherwise take steps to ensure that these contractors remain in legal compliance, Wallner. That is a very big deal, as anyone who has any idea of this will tell you. That's because the Wallnerian "Oh, let's find ways around the campaign finance laws" really is not standard practice.

However, that said, you're probably correct in asserting that Obama wasn't standing right next to the woman as she called; normally, principals aren't directly involved in this kind of nuts-and-bolts stuff. That's more fundraising director level, if that.

So, for your final posting of the day - you're allowed three, which is too generous in my mind - please explain how your squawking over Obama's purity on this is compatible with your equally assured squawking that Edwards personally fired Amanda Marcotte. The world is in awe of your mind-reading abilities, Wallner, please enlighten us.