Obama's '08 Decision Coming Soon

Illinois Democrat Says He's Still Considering A Presidential Run

(CBS/AP)  Sen. Barack Obama is almost ready to make an announcement about his potential presidential campaign, he said Sunday on Face The Nation.

"I will have something to say about that fairly soon," Obama told Bob Schieffer. "Obviously, there's been a lot of talk. It's something that I've been considering. I've said I've been considering it. And we'll be making an announcement fairly soon."

When pressed for a more specific timetable, Obama only smiled and said, "It will be pretty soon."

Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton have both hired senior aides while courting potential supporters in Iowa, New Hampshire and other key states.

Iowa's caucuses will kick off the nominating campaign in January 2008, to be followed by caucuses in Nevada and primaries in New Hampshire and South Carolina.

Clinton, who is on a weekend trip to Iraq, also has hired staff, met with activists and tried to settle on a Washington-area location for her campaign headquarters.

The moves by the two come as Democratic Senator Chris Dodd launched his campaign this week and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson prepared to make an announcement before the end of the month.

Obama and Clinton would clearly be the Democratic field's heavyweights — one vying to be the nation's first black president, the other the country's first female chief executive.

[randalds]

Give 'em Hall? (sigh) Got to proof read!

[randalds]

As of this morning he announced he is definitely in and I finally have re-discovered my enthusiasm for democratic politics again! Give 'em Hall Barack! You have my vote already!

[longyang-2009]

01/19/98 Newsweek, Page 62

January 6, 1964, was a long day for Martin Luther King Jr. He spent the morning seated in the reserved section of the Supreme Court, listening as lawyers argued New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, a landmark case rising out of King's crusade against segregation in Alabama. The minister was something of an honored guest: Justice Arthur Goldberg quietly sent down a copy of Kings account of the Montgomery bus boycott, "Stride Toward Freedom," asking for an autograph. That night King retired to his room at the Willard Hotel. There FBI bugs reportedly picked up 14 hours of party chatter, the clinking of glasses and the sounds of illicit ***--including King's cries of "I'm f--ing for God" and "I'm not a Negro tonight!"

[toosweet_org]

NO just changed my mind...
www.clintonedwards.com
and OBAMA as ATTORNEY GENERAL!

[toosweet_org]

Oh Come on Barack Obama, thats crasy...you dont think you can win in the primarys against Hillary Clinton do you??? Howabout the Clinton/Obama 2008 ticket...SOUNDS GOOD!
www.clintonobama.com

[mdmx66]

Obama/Oprah '08. The O team

[jsilver2th]

Edwards & Obama? - lookin good
or
Clinton & Gore? - it worked before

[edjohn66]

Barak Obama and Wesley Clark, 2008!!!

[notblue]

Who? Borat Obama? I keep hearing he is some kind of rock star, I guess the left wants someone with zero experience running the last of the worlds superpowers. Can't wait for the 08 election! I think him and Hillary will be great entertainment, a few laughs and a few songs.

[processor2]

It will be interesting to see how the Clinton(s) politically destroy Barack Obama while simultaneously proclaiming to "feel the pain" of black people.

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[skyhawk761]

FARTKNOCKER2, again please tell us all just what WAS the Republican plan. That's right, they were going to be throwing flowers at our feet. This goes along the same line as the press doesn't show the progress we have made over there. Tell us what progress has been made. Don't say we have been building hospitals, schools etc. we are the ones who blew them up in the first place. Come on, give me an answer but please don't throw out the same old *** that Hannity and Limpbaugh tell you daily. Think for yourself and quit being a sheeple.

[t_barr]

It's a 2-party system, folks...

Yep, it's a two party system where according to an on going CNN poll 90% of the American people say it's broken. And I mean broken badly. What choice did it give us the last time? Basically we had Cousins running against each other. Some choice. Both NWO elitist shrills. And I refuse to vote for some NWO witch, who made it her career for eight years, to try to abolish the Second Amendment. No Way.

We the People have awoken. And we're mad as hell. Just wait and see how we vote.

Ron Paul '08

[skyhawk761]

Rusty50, and just what was the Republican plan for Iraq? There was none and that is why we are in the situation we are in now. So what is the Chimps answer to this, throw more fuel on the fire. Just keep on spewing the same old Repub talking points.

As far as 08 I could definitely vote for a Obama Clinton ticket, that would be William Jefferson Clinton for VP not Hillary.

[plowhandle]

There are still idiots that want to throw their vote away and make it possible for another Republishit candidate to win by splitting up Democratic votes by supporting INDEPENDENT or libertarian (with a small 'l') candidates ? What kind of fools are you people ?

John Anderson sounded like a nice guy way back when - but he's in history's dustbin now...just where he belongs.

It's a 2-party system, folks...you'd think you would get used to it by now. Not going to change anytime soon.

Obama's NOT READY, pure and simple. If he runs, he blows his wad and will be relegated, along with Henry Hyde and the rest of Illinois' lackluster pols, to history's crapheap.

[bluestardad]

Obama; Go hard or go Home!

[bildooreilly]

I'll be voting with you T_barr...

[tibu987]

grazinggoat................
You are off on a tangent. Look at my previous three comments.
I am not looking at anything you are suggesting.
Not Africa, not Muslim, not his name, not his being black or white.
What I did say is that he has a brief record in the Illinois Senate and has been promoted and advised by someds pretty sleazy types in Chicago and Illinois.
I was actually for him when I found out that for all his eloquence and his saying all the things we want to hear, he has some political baggage that is pretty low class.
Check it out for yourself. I am doing my homework and I wish that everyone would do theirs before they vote.

[hillaryin08]

I wonder is Senator Obama really knows that Hillary is going to be the Democrat Candidate in 08? The Clintons have the Power, Money and Connections to make this happen. Their qualifications are exactly the same except for the First Lady bit if you can count that as a qualification. The only way that any of these guys has a chance is that Hillary doesent run. I'm sure he will be getting a phone call this week.

[t_barr]

Obama, Hillary, McCain, whatever. You can have them all. They are all just NWO shrills. I'm voting for the person who shares my views about how the Federal Government should abide by the Constitution and be run as the Constitutional Republic it's supposed to be. How dare the sitting President refer to the Constitution as just a GD piece of paper! He should have been Impeached the next day! Not to mention his North American Union Treason... Whatever...

I'm voting for a real American, Ron Paul. The only real choice I've seen in too long a time.
Ron Paul for '08

[grazinggoat]

Rusty50
Whatever Democrats decide, it's not gonna affect the Iraq war outcome. All decisions are still in the hands of Walking-Liar (though, obviously, he's NOT deciding as per many's view here).

It's up to the clown in white house to get us out of Iraq the same way he got us in, not only that but he's pushing us in another one with Iran.