White House mistakenly sends out email with pro Obama message

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/white-house-acc.html

White House Accidentally E-Mails to Reporters Story That Maliki Supports Obama Iraq Withdrawal Plan
July 19, 2008 1:29 PM

The White House this afternoon accidentally sent to its extensive distribution list a Reuters story headlined "Iraqi PM backs Obama troop exit plan - magazine."

The story relayed how Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told the German magazine Der Spiegel that "he supported prospective U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's proposal that U.S. troops should leave Iraq within 16 months … ‘U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes,'" the prime minister said.

The White House employee had intended to send the article to an internal distribution list, ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports, but hit the wrong button.

The misfire comes at an odd time for Bush foreign policy, at a time when Obama's campaign alleges the president is moving closer toward Obama's recommendations about international relations -- sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, discussing a "general time horizon" for U.S. troop withdrawal and launching talks with Iran.

A nice fantasy, anyway.

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they must not be computer literate either like McCain...

or was it intentional...

who knows, between this and Iran it's all getting weird and I don't trust them.

Granted, I understand that an operation like the White House must have their own LAN in order to disseminate memos and directives, just the same, we're all still smarting from the last time they played little, private email games.

Sigh.

the first stop for which is "internal distribution"....or, "how do we want them to spin this" department.

Count on it.

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