The other side of the whole “Superpac not coordinated with the campaign” technical angle is this classic…

When asked by reporters this afternoon if President Obama’s speech to the United Auto Workers union was a campaign speech, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney denied it.
“No at all,” said Carney, “The president was speaking to American Workers which he enjoys doing.”

Yeah.  Yeah.  Really enjoys it.  Particularly when he is introduced with a whole “Four More Years!” chant.

When asked if the president was directly challenging Mitt Romney when he mocked critics who said, ‘Let Detroit go bankrupt,” Carney would only say that a “number of critics” said that phrase. (A New York Times op-ed by Romney at the time was titled ‘Let Detroit go Bankrupt.’)

La de dar.

“I got to sit in a Chevy Volt, even though Secret Service wouldn’t let me drive it,” Mr. Obama said, to cheers. “I enjoyed sitting in it. And four or five years from now, when I’m not president no more and I can drive myself, I’m going to buy one.” For that, he got a chant of “Four more years!”

This was Tuesday in the state of a big primary, with elliptical references to his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney.  I kind of don’t get what the point of pretending this isn’t a campaign speech is, with a knowing wink and nod.  Of course, a President has just about every speech having to be a campaign speech (it’s the only way to get things done, the whole “bully pulpit” thing.)  Franklin Roosevelt in 1944 never campaigned, you understand.  He just made a round-trip inspection circuit through all the swing states of that year.

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