We are definetly in “gaffee” mode with the candidates and Obama just gave his latest. Speaking to about 500 people yesterday he said the death toll from the Kansas tornadoes was 10,000 when in fact it was twelve. Meanwhile Alex Beam calls Obama the BradleyDeanBabbittTsongas candidate in his latest column and the latest Marist polling shows Sen. Clinton with a double digit lead over Obama.

Some are according to the Times Online.

Also in the article a bigger picture of things, some Republicans are also defecting to other Dems like Hillary Clinton.

According to figures compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, Obama and Clinton have vacuumed up more than $750,000 (£375,000) in individual contributions from former Bush donors.

According to CNN the Secret Service has agreed to protect Barack Obama. According to the report no “specific credible” threat has been made.

TechPresident has an article about the drama surrounding Barack Obama’s MySpace.

Apparently a staffer setup the page way back in ‘04. Once the campaign became official the 160,000+ friends became important and so they asked the staffer for access to the page. He gave them a price it would take to get it, they balked and ever since things have been in turmoil.

Is the fight for celebrities & politicians cyber presence guaranteed to them or will we continue to live in a world where anyone can be Hillary Clinton, John McCain or Barack Obama in the virtual world?

Sen. Barack Obama made some big headlines this week when he called for radio host Don Imus to be fired for making comments that were both considered sexist as well as racist. Obama said of Imus:

“I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus,” Obama told ABC News, “but I would also say that there’s nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude.”

Imus of course was fired for the comments and many now hope that the controversy will lead to a further mission, that of cleaning up the airwaves from racist and sexist comments in total. To do that it means cleaning up hip-hop music which is broadcast across America and often filled with very sexist and often racist lyrics. It is a fight Sen. Barack Obama appeared to join with the following statement comparing rapers to Imus:

They are “degrading their sisters. That doesn’t inspire me,” Obama said of some hip-hop artists when a man in a crowd of about 1,000 questioned him. The Illinois senator was responding to a question of what inspired him, and said God and civil rights activists. “And I think that we have not talked enough about the harmful images and messages that are sent. I think that all of us have become a little complicit in this kind of relaxed attitude toward some pretty offensive things,” Obama said. “And I hope this prompts some self-reflection on the part of all of us.

It is a good political position to be a part of, the problem is the following.

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