Where is McCain when you need him? Matt Cover, CNS News:

White House visitor logs reveal that President Obama’s political campaign filmed two campaign videos featuring the president — inside the White House.

Federal law prohibits fundraising by the president in offices used for official business. The White House contends that the mansion’s residential areas do not fall under this prohibition, pointing out that presidents have used the White House for fundraising before without violating the law.

According to the logs, two “OFA Taping[s]” were conducted in November 2010, in the White House Map Room – in the residential area of the mansion. The tapings happened before Obama announced his candidacy for reelection.

OFA is the abbreviation for Obama for America, the official name of the president’s campaign. While he was not officially a candidate for reelection when the tapings were made, Obama has maintained his political operation throughout his presidency.

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According to federal law, “It shall be unlawful for an individual who is an officer or employee of the Federal Government, including the President, Vice President, and Members of Congress, to solicit or receive a donation of money or other thing of value in connection with a Federal, State, or local election, while in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties.” (Title 18, subsection 607 U.S.C.)

According to background information provided by the White House, President George W. Bush also filmed part of a campaign ad in the residential portion of the White House. President Bush also used a picture of himself in the Oval Office in a fundraising email from the RNC.

Recently, OFA released a video message from Obama announcing that Vice President Joe Biden had been added to a contest for donors to have dinner with the President. That video also was filmed in the Map Room.

In that video, first reported by CNSNews.com, Obama asked supporters to participate in a raffle for the dinner. The raffle is part of an OFA fundraising drive, and supporters who give to the president’s campaign can enter to win the dinner with Obama and Biden.

While the videos are not illegal – presidents have often used the White House as a setting for political material – they do show Obama continuing a controversial practice of using the White House to raise campaign funds as well as for other political functions.

Dude. This imperial faculty lounge poobah dismissed his own counsel and is fighting what amounts to an unsanctioned war that no one in the entire fucking country (save maybe noted anti-isolationist John McCain, who once again gives Obama full blessings, the mavericky mavericky maverick!) understands the purpose of — and this, following up instances of ignoring federal judges and, in the case of ObamaCare, the vast majority of the electorate.

Do you really think he’s going to care about a little bit of gray area when it comes to campaign law?

Let’s face it: it’s good to be the king. And to have John McCain pop up from time to time and shine your boots for you in public.