"Word torture"

AMMAN, JORDAN--The Obama campaign is planning a big public rally in a major park in Berlin on Thursday. Thousands of Germans are anticipated to attend when presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) delivers what is being billed as a "substantive" speech on Trans-Atlantic relations. Yet campaign top advisors Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod insist this is not a campaign event though it is conceived, organized, financed and executed by the campaign. ...

The Obama trip to Iraq and Afghanistan is taxpayer-funded official government business. The rest if [sic] paid for by the campaign.

[From Word torture: Obama staffers insist we are not really on a campaign trip. (well, maybe sometimes.) - Lynn Sweet]