The McCain campaign is charging that the Democratic National Committee "attacked" Cindy McCain this morning -- and argues that this is at odds with Barack Obama's recent insistence that family members be "off limits."

There's only one problem: The DNC isn't attacking Mrs. McCain at all.

In an email blasted out to the media this morning, the McCain camp noted that the DNC had sent to reporters this article about Mrs. McCain.

"When will Sen. Obama do as he promised and `speak out against' Howard Dean and the DNC for their attacks on Mrs. McCain -- or at least demand they stop?" McCain spokesperson Brian Rogers asked in the email.

I received the DNC's email this morning, too. And nowhere in the email does the DNC attack Mrs. McCain.

The article that the DNC drew attention to reported that the McCain campaign had failed to reimburse Mrs. McCain for a flight in her company's private jet to New York City, where she attended a fund-raiser for her husband. The article quotes two Republicans criticizing the campaign for this.

The entire email from the DNC consists of criticism of the McCain campaign -- not Mrs. McCain.

The McCain camp is trying to argue that the DNC's circulation of the piece is at odds with Obama's claim that he "would never consider making Cindy McCain a campaign issue."

Is the DNC making a "campaign issue" of Mrs. McCain? In a sense, yes. But Mrs. McCain herself isn't really the issue. It's the campaign's failure to reimburse her. The same story could have been written about anyone else the campaign had failed to reimburse.

And it's absolutely false of the McCain campaign to say the DNC is "attacking" her.