Robert Novak says that Senator Barack Obama is definitely running. Meanwhile the advertisement above from DraftObama.org is running in Hawaii where the senator is vacationing during the holiday recess and some say finalizing plans on whether or not he will take the plunge in 2008.

Meannwhile as I pointed out not long ago there will inevitably be a turning point when all the amazing press the Senator has received will turn. According to an editorial in the Sun Times that backlash has begun. The editorial points to Barack Obama Inc. an article written by Ken Silverstein in Harpers which details what the author sees as the institutionalization of Obama softening his positions on issues and tying him into establishment ideas and causes.

Senator Obama’s office has rebutted the charges but it is a first sign that the prediction I made (an easy one at that) has come true. There is a backlash to the good press coming.