He's In (plus '08 thoughts...)
More official statements to be made about and all of that, but Barack Obama is running for President. Sign up to receive updates by email, or read some information about him, or watch a brief video statement at barackobama.com.

I can tell I'm not going to pick sides anytime soon between Obama and Edwards, though in all honesty it will be hard not to vote for a dynamic, intelligent black man with a legitimate chance to be President. When would our next chance be? That being said, if Obama becomes too cautious, or too conservative and Edwards stays true to the path he's on currently, I could easily go the other way. We're lucky to have 2 such candidates running on the Democratic side - young, progressive, with their own brands of idealism...compare to the stodginess that is the GOP offering of McCain or Giuliani.

How will Hillary fit into this mix? I'm predicting not very well. It's shocking how she could have gone through Bill's campaign, which was so much about passion and change and youth and empathy and then herself be running so much an insider, establishment candidacy. I thought that's the way Republicans nominate Presidents, not Democrats. We're not even to the Winter Meeting yet, so this hardly matters, but I'm having a hard time envisioning what a campaign of hers could even look like? She might turn out to be great, who knows.