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Boss for Barack

Obama racks up yet another endorsement in the music primary, this one from small town poet laureate Bruce Springsteen. On his Web site, the Boss implicitly defends Obama’s “bitter” comment:

At the moment, critics have tried to diminish Senator Obama through the exaggeration of certain of his comments and relationships. While these matters are worthy of some discussion, they have been ripped out of the context and fabric of the man's life and vision, so well described in his excellent book, Dreams of My Father, often in order to distract us from discussing the real issues: war and peace, the fight for economic and racial justice, reaffirming our Constitution, and the protection and enhancement of our environment.

The Boss may have read Obama’s book and liked it, but he must have missed the title: It’s Dreams From My Father.

It’s actually a common mistake. But you’d think the Obama campaign would catch it in the vetting process.

In fact, they’ve made the same error before. In a press release responding to a Los Angeles Times piece about exaggerations in the partially fictionalized book, the campaign mentions “Yvonne Lloyd, a mother of 11 who was the basis for the character “Shirley” in Dreams of My Father …” [E.A.]

Granted, press releases are always riddled with copy errors, but come on, forty million dollars a month should at least buy you an editor.