Breaking News...Charlie Rose to Host Online Debates

Charlie Rose To Host First Live Online Presidential Debates

Yahoo along with the Huffington Post and Slate will host two presidential debates during the 2008 campaign. Hosted by Charlie Rose, these interactive debates will be available on the three websites and allow voters an opportunity to ask questions, as well as evaluate the candidates for their performances. [more]

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog

Is Gore in?

Sure looks like Gore is running...what an amazing campaign this will be.

MJ------------------------

Gore To Run For 2008 Nomination
CAPTAIN ED
Al Gore has insisted that he has no interest in returning to electoral politics and wants to focus on his media interests and on solutions to global warming. The former Vice President has shown no inclination to run against the wife of his former boss, at least not publicly. However, the London Telegraph reports that Gore has secretly begun to recruit a campaign staff and will challenge Hillary Clinton for the nomination:

"Friends of Al Gore have secretly started assembling a campaign team in preparation for the former American vice-president to make a fresh bid for the White House.

Two members of Mr Gore's staff from his unsuccessful attempt in 2000 say they have been approached to see if they would be available to work with him again.

Mr Gore, President Bill Clinton's deputy, has said he wants to concentrate on publicising the need to combat climate change, a case made in his film, An Inconvenient Truth, which won him an Oscar this year.

But, aware that he may step into the wide open race for the White House, former strategists are sounding out a shadow team that could run his campaign at short notice. In approaching former campaign staff, including political strategists and communications officials, they are making clear they are not acting on formal instructions from Mr Gore, 59, but have not been asked to stop."

Gore has run in the top tier of Democratic candidates without having announced any intention to run. Thanks to the buzz from his Oscar-winning documentary, Gore has not needed to eat up resources for traditional campaigning. With a new book coming out this spring, Gore will have even more free media access, expanding his reach and making him seem even more presidential than ever.

After jumping into the race, though, Gore has to win it. He has proven himself rather wooden on the stump in past campaigns. He has improved during his global-warming tour, but that may not equate to the kind of speechmaking that a presidential campaign requires. It will also task his ability to project a warm and engaging personality, rather than the cold scold of 2000.

A Gore entry will probably prove fatal to the ambitions of Barack Obama and John Edwards. Both have run on Gore's turf so far, and neither will outshine him with party donors desperate to find a credible alternative to Hillary Clinton. Gore has a great deal more substance than both candidates put together and will almost immediately be the chief challenger on Hillary's left, once he formally enters the race.

Given that Hillary's negatives keep going higher, Gore could easily convince the Democrats that he has more electability than his ex-boss' wife. If so, that gives the Republicans an opening among the center.

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/009757.php

Obama speaks on the day of the Virginia Tech massacre

Still a Thorn in Hillary's Side...

It's very interesting to read some of the particulars about the first round of fund raising. MJ

Donors Linked to the Clintons Shift to Obama

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/us/politics/16donate.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewan...

Video of Obama on Letterman

Symbolism and Barack Obama

Barack Obama, originally uploaded by Barack Obama.

More and More...Obama Is Changing the Game

I've tried to position this blog right in the middle of what I see as a rapidly changing new model for US politics. Its really fascinating to watch how this continues to unfold across the political landscape.

MJ

"In Politics, the Web Changes Everything

By David Frum
Posted:
Monday, April 9, 2007

ARTICLES
National Post (Canada)
Publication Date: April 7, 2007


Resident Fellow David Frum
Hillary Clinton had everything lined up to reprise the mighty George W. Bush
nomination campaign of 1998-99.
She would use the vast donor network
inherited from her husband to raise a $100-million campaign fund. This vast
treasury would deter potential rivals from entering the race. And should anybody
in the party murmur against this buying of the nomination, she would field a
team of party leaders to warn: 'Those who are with us now will be remembered
when we win. And those who are against--they will also be remembered when we
win.'
It worked for Bush. But it's not working for Clinton." [more]

http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.25921/pub_detail.asp

Behind the Scenes at Obama's Headquarters

Peek Inside Obama's Headquarters April 5, 2007 Phil Rogers takes a tour through Sen. Barack Obama's campaign headquarters.
http://video.nbc5.com/player/?id=88519

Obama Raises 25 Million !

Obama Shows His Strength in a Fund-Raising Feat on Par With Clinton
By
JEFF ZELENY and PATRICK HEALY
Published: April 5, 2007
The Obama campaign
announced it had raised $25 million only days after Senator Hillary Rodham
Clinton said her campaign had raisied $26 million.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/us/politics/05obama.html?ex=1333425600&en=a06fe28b1bcaec39&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Obama Fundraising Notes and Analysis

As I said nearly a week ago...Obama is right in the mix with fundraising so far. Here is more confirmation of that. MJ
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Obama, not Hillary, won the 1st quarter fundraising derby

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/04/obama_not_hillary_won_the_1st.html

Behind The Numbers: 83,531 Gave To Obama, 50,000 Gave To
Hillary

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/04/02/behind-the-numbers-8353_n_44779.html

Hillary Clinton Doomsday Machine....Enjoy!