Easy as…

In this video, two Edwards advisers — Jonathan Prince and Joe Trippi — try and fail to bake a pie:

And then Elizabeth Edwards asks for money.

It’s, uhm, not exactly the Obama “1984″ ad. I’m all for campaigns trying non-slick ad experiments, and I have an unaccountable weakness for behind-the-scenes trivia, but this sort of looks like one of those things that the fraternity brothers think would be really funny when they film at 2am but then forget they made it and wind up overdubbing the thing with soft core porn.

Maybe next time.

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