I love that term, “reached out”. Typically liberal semantics.
O: “how we gonna get this Sestak/Romanoff thing off the front pages?”
R: “we got a heaven sent crisis - let's not waste it. Don't do anything to keep that oil from destroying the coast line from the Gulf, around Florida, up the east coast - “
O:” Right. Alinksi rules: Oh, and it's Bush's fault”