"Kudos to On Politics reader Kavi Grace, a New York lawyer and supporter of Sen. Barack Obama who blogs on his own time at Why We Need Obama.

He left a message overnight at my USATODAY.com community profile, pointing to a post he had written headlined "Clinton campaign lies about Obama donations."

That's a more accusatory headline than we would have written, but Kavi's findings are worth noting.

He saw our post yesterday that noted the response from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign to the economic address that Obama delivered Thursday. In this memo, the Clinton team said that Obama "has taken more money from the top 10 subprime loans than BOTH Senator Clinton and Senator McCain." The memo cited CQ.com as its source.

Kavi, though, sifted through public records and figured out that if you compare apples to apples -- particularly the money campaigns have gotten from employees of subprime mortgage companies, which is what the Obama numbers were largely based on -- it looks like Clinton has taken in $1.3 million to Obama's $1.2 million.

Lo and behold, The Wall Street Journal comes to the same conclusion this morning.

The Journal writes that:

Clinton officials said they didn't mean to say that their candidate was free of Wall Street ties. The point of the email, they said, was to counter (Obama strategist David) Plouffe's suggestion that Sen. Clinton was less trustworthy on the issue than Sen. Obama.

"The Obama campaign's attack implied that Senator Obama had no relationship with these lenders so we pointed out the hypocrisy of their attack," said (campaign spokesman Phil) Singer in an e-mail response to questions.

We reached Kavi by telephone this morning to verify his identity and thank him for sending along his findings. He said he's not one of those Democrats who would vote for Sen. John McCain if Clinton becomes the party's nominee, but has become disenchanted with Clinton over time.

His law firm, DLA Piper, includes among its lawyers Democratic heavyweights such as former Senate majority leader George Mitchell and former House majority leader Richard Gephardt."

From USA Today Blogs.

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