Here’s a portion of an e-mail that Obama campaign manger David Plouffe sent me and countless others. Just thought that everybody needed to read this:

Dear Adam,

When we won Iowa, the Clinton campaign said it’s not the number of states you win, it’s “a contest for delegates.”

When we won a significant lead in delegates, they said it’s really about which states you win.

When we won South Carolina, they discounted the votes of African-Americans.

When we won predominantly white, rural states like Idaho, Utah, and Nebraska, they said those didn’t count because they won’t be competitive in the general election.

When we won in Washington State, Wisconsin, and Missouri — general election battlegrounds where polls show Barack is a stronger candidate against John McCain — the Clinton campaign attacked those voters as “latte-sipping” elitists.

And now that we’ve won more than twice as many states, the Clinton spin is that only certain states really count.

But the facts are clear.

For all their attempts to discount, distract, and distort, we have won more delegates, more states, and more votes.

Meanwhile, more than half of the votes that Senator Clinton has won so far have come from just five states. And in four of these five states, polls show that Barack would be a stronger general election candidate against McCain than Clinton.

We’re ready to take on John McCain. But we also need to build operations in places like Pennsylvania, Indiana, North Carolina, and Oregon that will hold their primaries in April and May.

The end of the portion I’ve included is especially interesting. The Clintons are talking up Pennsylvania like it’s the end all, but Indiana and North Carolina follow up a week or so later on the same day. Combined, the states have more delegates than Pennsylvania. Oregon is also an important contest, and one which Obama should win handily. I guess what I’m saying is this: Let’s not continue to allow the Clintons and the media to keep running their spin game on us, moving the goalposts and skewing the realities of this race in the process.

(hat tip: crisdecuba.com)

Paul Abraham’s Huff Post piece on how Obama helped Bill Foster win narrowly edges out Daily Kos commenter Jsn’s “saying that Hillary has Executive Branch experience is like saying Yoko Ono was a Beatle” nugget of a comment.

Barack Obama — not Hillary Clinton — actively, with TV ads, supported Bill Foster’s attempt to win Dennis Hastert’s (former Speaker) seat in the House after Hastert’s resignation. Supporting Foster so openly was a risk, as it could have (and we know, would have) been used by the Clintons to raise doubt about Obama’s ability to rally support. After all, one thing Bill Clinton did not have was coattails — he lost the House for the first time in 40 years, and it remained in Republican hands for 12 years.

We keep hearing about delegates, super delegates and even the popular vote when it comes to the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, but what about states? Barack Obama has already won that war, which is why we probably aren’t hearing about it.

Now, BHO has won 27 contests to Hillary Clinton’s 14. One of his wins was the Virgin Islands, so let’s change the score to BHO 26, HRC 14. The Clinton camp keeps on saying that there are 12 contests left, but only 10 of those are states (Guam and Puerto Rico aren’t states) and Obama looks like he is going to carry Wisconsin. Make the score BHO 27, HRC 14 once again, with only nine states remaining. Hillary could win all nine and still wouldn’t catch Barack Obama.

This needs to be talked about. Why? Because while I have no doubt that Obama can win big blue states like New York and California, I just don’t see Hillary competing in red and purple states as well as Obama can, with Ohio probably being the exception because of its unique and unfavorable demographics. She’s also basically said that many states don’t matter, something that could come back to haunt the Democratic party in the general election should she capture the nomination.

My point is, the ability to win as many states as possible definitely matters. Shouldn’t it matter now just as much as elected delegates and votes (I still expect Obama to win both, by the way)?

You know what, Hillary, you’ve done more than lose my vote. And that’s saying a lot, because I’m a die-hard Dem who cares about healthcare and the future of the Supreme Court a great deal. Given your past, however, I don’t think you’ll win your healthcare battle should you pull off a miracle and come back to beat Obama and then beat McCain. And I definitely don’t trust your judgment, so there goes worrying about the Supreme Court appointments, or the Iraq war for that matter.

Anyway, what you’ve done is change my opinion of you.

Votes like a Republican, at least when it comes to Iran and Iraq. Praises Republicans. Supported by neocon radio hosts. Installs fear like a Republican. Looks like a Republican, sounds like a Republican, must be a Republican. Even if HRC’s a light G.O.P. brew, in my eyes she’s more than crossed the line. Ah-nold is more of a Democrat than she is at this point. Hillary’s gone all Liberman on us. No, that’s not a good thing.

You’ve disgraced the party with your praise for McCain, Hillary, but in the process you’ve opened our eyes. You and John McCain do share Commander-in-Cheif experience–the exact same C-in-C experience we’ve had for eight years and want absolutely no more of. No thanks. Good riddance.

From this point forth HRC is McCain Lite. Why any Democrat would drink McCain Lite when there is a fine true Democrat pilsner out there is beyond me, but I’m determined to help stop the madness. Barack Obama might not get in the mud with you and those other pigs like Harold Wolfson and Mark Penn, but I have my fucking shovel out. I have no problem getting dirty with you pigs, slingin’ mud. Let’s do it; I’m in this thing until every last Dem has put down their McCain Lite hogwash in favor of a tall, refreshing glass of Obama.

Larry David, the brilliant creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld, rips into Hillary over at the Huffington Post about the now infamous “3 AM” ad:

How is it that she became the one who’s perceived as more equipped to answer that 3 a.m. call than the unflappable Obama? He, with the ice in his veins, who doesn’t panic when he’s losing or get too giddy when he’s winning, who’s as comfortable in his own skin as she’s uncomfortable in hers. There have been times in this campaign when she seemed so unhinged that I worried she’d actually kill herself if she lost. Every day, she reminds me more and more of Adele H., who also had an obsession that drove her insane.

With all this bogus talk about Clinton momentum, lets’ take a look at the actual numbers as of today:

• Barack Obama didn’t lose any ground this week. Despite all the talk about Hillary Clinton’s big confetti–really, confetti when you are behind in a race that has a long ways to go?–victories, she only netted somewhere between plus-four to plus-10 delegates Tuesday. Obama netted plus-nine delegates in Washington D.C. alone.

• Barack Obama is way ahead in delegates. Even including super delegates, HRC is still at least 100 total delegates behind no matter who you ask.

• Barack Obama has won 27 out of 41 states. He has also won 13 of the last 16.

• Barack Obama is winning the total popular vote.

• Barack Obama crushed the monthly fundraising record by raising $55 million in February. HRC raised $35 million, and gloated about it for a week.

• Barack Obama beats John McCain 52-40 percent in the latest head-to-head poll. HRC only 50-44.

Who’s winning this race? Who still has momentum? Even at 3 AM those numbers aren’t fuzzy at all. Yes, we can!

With all this talk from Hillary Clinton about her and John McCain’s experience, maybe there should be a McSame video for the two of them as well. After all, their votes on Iran and authorizing the Iraq war were the McSame. For now, enjoy the governor bush version…