Bye Bayh..

The Tribune is reporting that Senator Bayh of Indiana is going to take a pass on running for president.

Part of the reasons for him taking a pass they site is the Obama effect.

The Draft Obama folks have a TV ad...

It's on YouTube..

NH Voters would like to see Obama stop by more often.

Yahoo has some reaction to his recent NH visit.

His audiences were rapt, despite his low-key delivery. Those in attendance compared him to everyone from Kennedy to Bono, clearly over any annoyance they stood waiting for an hour for the speaking program to start as the large crowd filed in.

Not bad at all...

Obama vs. Clinton

MSNBC has a item about the growing rivalry between the two senators.

Behind the scenes, of course, it's a slightly different story. "Don't tell Mama, I'm for Obama" has become the Obama campaign's unofficial motto. It's a reference to Clinton's nickname as first lady and an example of the conflicted loyalties of many Democratic political aides. Some are talking to both camps about possible jobs in the presidential campaigns. Meanwhile, Democratic senators who are not considering presidential bids of their own are remaining neutral.

Some Obama allies suspect that Clinton supporters generated recent rumors that former vice president Al Gore is weighing a 2008 bid, hoping to discourage donors from signing up with Obama just yet. On Monday, Obama tiptoed onto Clinton's turf, traveling to Manhattan to talk with big-time Democratic donors such as George Soros.

Obama does not want to end up like Mario

Chicago Tribune columnist Eirc Zorn makes a point in his blog about how if Sen. Obama does not run for president this time around he may end up being the next Mario Cuomo.

the un-scientific poll running on his blog right now has 84.7% saying he will run.

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Over at TINS

Rick has an interesting post about news and google hits of Hillary Clinton vs. Sen. Obama.

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Kos thinks he can win

Kos has a post with the title 'If Obama runs, Obama wins'. He takes a tactical look at the early primaries, worth a read.

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More on Sen. Obama and Rick Warren

Time has picked up on the Obama Warren thing now as well.
I guess my question is still, is someone's stand on abortion a showstopper when it comes to discussing anything else with Christians? I guess for whatever reason I really don't see the logic in that. If nothing else by screaming about it, they are just giving Obama more media coverage.

The last thing that political evangelicalism should do is play the fundamentalist to Warren's Graham. There are those like David Kuo, the former second-in-command at George W. Bush's faith-based office who expressed his frustrations in the recent book Tempting Faith, who feel that, as he puts it, "there is one camp [in Evangelicalism] who truly want to follow Jesus, and another, much narrower, the Christian political power brokers, who want to follow conservative politics." He thinks the latter will soon be exposed to the majority as wordly operators rather than God's servants and shrivel away. He regards some of Warren's more prominent critics this week as prime examples.

If those critics want to hang on a little longer... or for that matter, if they want to prove Kuo wrong both in his assessment and his prediction... or if they'd simply like to live up to the full meaning of their pro-life commitment, they might consider letting Warren host Obama in peace. Otherwise, more broad-minded Christians may eventually demand a different kind of leadership.

OneMan