Sweet blog special: Obama raises potential of Clinton “inevitable” win in fund-raising appeal.

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HIGHLAND PARK, ILL.–Who are the people doing the loudest talking about the supposed “inevitablity” that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) will be the Democratic presidential nominee? That’s chief rival Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who is stalled in national and the more important early state polls his wife Michelle.

On Thursday morning, following an appearence Wednesday night on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Obama sent out a fund-raising appeal titled “Inevitable.” It used the line Obama has been using about Clinton. “I’ll tell you what I told him: (Leno) Hillary is not the first politician in Washington to declare “Mission Accomplished” a little too soon.”

Invoking Clinton’s name rings the cash register for Obama. A small dollar e-mail appeal invoking Clinton collected $1,254,785 in two days for Obama.

the letter…

XXXX,

I’m leaving the Tonight Show studio and I wanted to share something.

Jay Leno just asked if it bothers me that some of the Washington pundits are declaring Hillary Clinton the winner of this election before a single vote has been cast.

I’ll tell you what I told him: Hillary is not the first politician in Washington to declare “Mission Accomplished” a little too soon.

We started this week $2.1 million behind the Clinton campaign — a lead they built in large part with contributions from Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs.

We don’t accept money from federal lobbyists or PACs. But we’ve already cut that advantage in half with small donations from people like you.

Let’s close the rest of that gap now. Please make a donation of $25:

https://donate.barackobama.com/closethegap

Thank you,

Barack

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