I mentioned John Edward’s Widget the other day and today I have another widget for your Mac OSX Dashboard. This one counts down the days to November 2008!

That is what Mary Ann Ackers reports in the Washington Post.

This is going to take some time to work through the blogosphere (by time I mean a good hour or so) but it is being reported that Senator Joe Biden who has announced intent to run for President has said the following about Barack Obama: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy”

Now the original source of the story at the observer isn’t loading, my guess because it is now linked from Drudge and several other big Internet places (I am guessing it is in TotalFark now and will make Fark sometimes today) so it is bogged down. I used to believe if it didn’t come up it was because there was something untrue but have since learned as long as the source is somewhat reputable it is a traffic issue.

Anyway Gen. Wesley Clark was recently hit for some Jewish comments he made that made its way onto the Blogosphere and I am guessing Biden, who also recently made comments about Indians working at 7-11 & Dunk’in Donuts, is about to take a wallop of negative online press.

From Blog Talk Radio listen to Congressman Duncan Hunter.

This is from a few days ago (sorry, said I was catching up) and frankly this shouldn’t have been just directed at Senator Clinton but all the candidates. I imagine Matt Drudge, Arianna Huffington and the rest will have a huge impact on all of the 2008 candidates so it seems a bit unfair to put just one Senator in there when so many are running.

Still it is an interesting introduction to the bloggers out there who will undoubtedly have an impact.

From Yahoo originally from Quinnipiaq:

Democratic Field Clinton 38% Obama 13% Edwards 11% Gore 6% Biden 2% Kucinich 2% Richardson 1% Dodd 0%

Republican Field Giuliani 30% McCain 22% Gingrich 11% Romney 4% 6 Candidates at 1% (Brownback, Thompson, Hagel, Huckabee, Pataki, Tancredo)

General Election Clinton 46% Giuliani 43%

Clinton 46% McCain 42%

Clinton 52% Romney 31%

Edwards 44% McCain 41%

McCain 41% Obama 38%

From Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine:

Interesting read from the L.A. Times.

Here is some video to follow it up.

After Web video pitted John Kerry against John Kerry in 2004 (which the Kerry campaign in my opinion and almost every other thinking persons opinion, did a horrendous job of responding too) I have to say that McCain and others (look at how Mitt Romney is being bombarded with his own words) need to get out there and put together a comprehensive message on the Web and do it fast. In 2004 John Kerry was his own worst enemy and thanks to the endless hours of C-Span footage Senate candidates face a rough road ahead as their words are not just in the public record, they are in striking video and available for all.

I have always hated how 24/7 and broadcast news have endless hours of video of candidates much of which shows them saying the complete opposite of what they have to share at the current moment. Most of that video just stays in the vault allowing anyone to say virtually anything without every being checked by their own reality.

The Web (and comedy programs like The Daily Show) is changing that and candidates are going to have to quickly adjust. I like Senator McCain a lot so I hate seeing it done to him BUT it is still nice to see technology used this way.

Air America Radio the ‘liberal alternative to conservative talk’ has been on shaky ground since its beginning. Every year it seems another round of speculation comes that the network will go bankrupt and every year it seems someone steps in to save the company from bankruptcy.

Al Franken, former SNL writer, author of numerous books and full time radio talk show personality on the network (and founding member) announced his departure from the airwaves just as Air America was getting saved again. The move seems permanent, at least for the next few years, as many believe Franken will announce his candidacy for the Senate in Minnesota.

The Senate races for 2008 has been much slower to ramp up then the Presidential so I haven’t blogged much. Franken though offers a big name to the lineup and will surely add for some unique soundbytes, campaign rhetoric and a lot of interesting and heated backlash from the right which he has lampooned for so long.