Perhaps he is Paul's Father?

Joe Biden (who announced yesterday he is running for president) commented that Senator Obama is 'clean'.

Perhaps he just got him confused with Paul McCartney Grandfather in A Hard Day's Night

'He's very clean'.

Seriously, the first day running for president and you have to spend a bunch of time saying nice things about Senator Obama to dig yourself out of a hole. That can't be fun.

OneMan

Biden is in

The Trib and others are reporting that Sen. Joe Biden officially announced he is running, no exploratory committee for him. His site is www.JoeBiden.com


OneMan

Sen. Obama the early years

Over at the Politico they have some feedback from folks who worked with the senator back when he was with the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG). Follow the link to learn more, nothing earth shattering.

OneMan

This is Huge!

Glad to see John Stewart is treating things with the weight they deserve.

Some TV Ads Developed By Folks as seen on YouTube

There is some here



And Here




Finally Letterman offers up one Advantage for Sen. Clinton




OneMan

Of course he was wearing a White Sox Cap.

Sneed (Chicago area gosip columnist) had this bit about Sen. Obama

Cap flap: In case you didn't notice, Sen. Barack Obama was wearing a White Sox cap at the Bears game Sunday. The Sox are the favorite team of Mayor Daley, whom Obama endorsed for re-election the following day. It's called covering all bases.

Or Mike it's called he lives on the south side so therefore logically would be a Sox fan (like any sane person).


OneMan

Cong. Rush backs Sen. Obama

Congressman Bobby Rush (D-Chicago) who once was challenged by and beat Sen. Obama in a Democratic Party Primary is endorsing Sen. Obama for President. I have to admit this is a bit of a surprise.


OneMan

Some more web stuff.

Someone has created an Obama page on MySpace that has 22,507 'friends' at this point. There is also an interest group on Facebook, but OneMan can't get to it.

It will be interesting to see how the campaigns use social networking sites this time around, I think they are going to be helpful during the primary season more than for the general election.

OneMan

Polling Roudnup

Remember this is early gang....

From CBS 2 Chicago

CBS News, Washington Post Find Obama Not Connecting With African Americans

From NewsMax

Hillary Tops Obama By 19% in Time Magazine Poll

Also from NewsMax

According to Real Clear Politics, a preference poll for Iowa voters completed in December showed Obama and former North Carolina Senator and Vice-Presidential candidate John Edwards tied for first at 22 percent, favorite son Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack at third with 12 percent, and supposed front-runner Clinton in fourth place with just 10 percent.

OneMan

Sen. Obama and universal health coverage...

CBS2 in Chicago and others are reporting

Every American should have health care coverage within six years, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday as he set an ambitious goal soon after jumping into the 2008 presidential race. "I am absolutely determined that by the end of the first term of the next president, we should have universal health care in this country,'' Obama told a conference of Families USA, a health care advocacy group.

The story points out it is a common theme among the possible Democratic candidates.

The full text of the speech is here go take a look. I will offer a couple of thoughts on it however.

One thing is he does speak about how the uninsured cost every one, the number of business no longer offering coverage. These are themes on the issue I think might work. For the insured to really take this issue to heart to some degree they need to see how it causes them a problem.

From the speech.

But because we haven't updated technology in the rest of the health care industry, a single transaction still costs up to twenty-five dollars - not one dime of which goes toward improving the quality of our health care.

This is simply inexcusable, and if we brought our entire health care system online, something everyone from Ted Kennedy to Newt Gingrich believes we should do, we'd already be saving over $600 million a year on health care costs.

This is a bit easier said than done but it is an interesting example in terms of using Newt and Ted.

OneMan

A response on the school thing

Is over at Archpundit, follow the link. I think the issue is just about dead now.

John Kerry Takes a Pass

Sen. Kerry is not going to run in 2008 for president.

CNN and Others on the Madrassa Rumors...

CNN has a piece on it including talking to a former classmate. Eric Zorn has an Open Letter about the subject. Snopes lists it as the top rumor on it's list (and provides more debunking). Zorn has some more here. Some Illinois based blog thoughts on the subject here.

I suspect it is better this gets exposed to sunlight now that later in a campaign.

OneMan

Some of Sen. Obama's Comments About the State of the Union Speech.

From Reuters

SEN. BARACK OBAMA, ILLINOIS DEMOCRAT AND POSSIBLE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
"The President offered some serious proposals tonight on two issues -- energy and health care -- that we all agree must be addressed. But the last election proved that politics-by-slogan and poll-tested sound bites aren't going to cut it with the American people anymore, and that's why the real test of leadership is not what the president said to Congress tonight, but how he works with Congress to find real solutions to the problems we face.

If you follow the link it also has reactions from other posible candidates such as Sen. Kerry.

A Bio piece on Senator Obama

Very Good if you ask me.




Also the way they make the code available to put it into your own blog is brilliant. Increases exposure makes people feel 'part of it'.

OneMan

It will take about $100 Million Dollars

From the Chicago Tribune

To wage a serious presidential campaign in 2008, the ante is $50 million raised by Dec. 31 of this year, said one adviser to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). And that is just to get a place at the table.

Remember you can't raise more than $2,100 per donor. You would need 47,619 people to give the maximum in order to meet that number or just about the capacity of U.S Cellular Field in 2003 (they removed some seats since then) for maxed out donors.

OneMan

Some Illinois Spin on The 'School' stuff

Some local Illinois perspective on the stuff about Obama's early education.

OneMan

Newsweek Talks about Mrs. Obama

Newsweek had a story about Michelle Obama today.

OneMan

THIS IS NOT THE OFFICAL OBAMA WEB SITE...

Please keep that in mind. For my other blog go here.

As seen in The Beacon News

The Beacon News had a story about the site today. If you want to see my normal blog go here.

Here is a recent post from my other blog

People who may be looking into Sen. Obama for the first time there are a few things I want to say.

As someone who has blogged about Sen. Obama for a long time (my first Obama post over three years ago).
Someone who was written for the Obama Truth Squad in the past.

Someone who is a minor Republican Party Official (very minor).

If you think his past drug use is going to be Achilles heel,
you should in fact get off the drugs. Seriously, no one seemed to care much in Illinois. If they did we could have found a better replacement candidate for Jack Ryan than Alan Keyes.

The Obama is a Muslim thing. Seriously do you think Christian America is
going to buy into the whole 'Well his dad was so therefore...' thing? Using the
logic she used in this posting the early Christian Church should have never
trusted Paul. Because of who his dad was we should question where is loyalties lie? How screwed up is that?

The his middle name is Hussein thing. If people are not going to vote for him because middle name, God help our democracy. Seriously, Mrs. Austin Mayor had a point along these lines with Illinois and the last name of Ryan almost 3 years ago.

Like it or not, even large numbers of Illinois Republicans who dealt or knew Sen. Obama back when he was in the state senate describe him as likeable. They may say he is a screaming liberal, but they felt he was likeable. That is something that is going to be hard to overcome. Mocking his last name and his faith is not going to be the way to do it.

I will have some more on this down the road.

OneMan

The exploration begins

From Todays Sun Times

Sen. Obama

"If I recall Dr. King, he wasn't hanging out in Manhattan. Dr. King was not in Beverly Hills. Folks said 'Why are you going to Harvey? Harvey has lots a problems.' I said that why I'm going to Harvey."

That will kind to silence the critics.