I think I’ll go with Occham’s Razor on this one.

Look to the ‘conditions’ BHO’s campaign set up to get THE message: give us your data and we’ll put you in the front row for this ‘historic event’. Now then, that being said, does anyone think BHO was REALLY going to stiff the drive-by media on this one?

The end result: Obama’s campaign gets a butt-load of data on potential minions, the press gets thrown a bone. The Obamabots who got stiffed: they’ll get over it the first time they get a ‘personal message’ from the Dear Leader-in-waiting.

No, I think everything went as planned.