Mike Gravel, 2008 Presidential Candidate on Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. Includes the wonderful news that Mike will be at the NH Debates.

Candidates Clinton, Biden, Obama and Edwards respond to Sen. Harry Reid’s assessment that the Iraq war is lost.

The online social networking site MySpace and reality TV producer Mark Burnett are teaming to launch the search for an independent presidential candidate.
The political reality show “Independent” comes with a $1 million cash prize and a catch: The winner can’t keep the money.
The prize can be used to finance a run for the White House [...]

Analysis of the MSNBC conversation (wasn’t a “debate” at all), mainly on the issue of Hillary vs. Obama on responding to terror attack.

On March 19, 2007, David Ehrenstein of the LA Times wrote a column about Hollywood and politics. The headline of his column: “Obama, the ‘Magic Negro.’” Then on March 21, 2007 the Rush Limbaugh show aired a parody produced by Paul Shanklin, imitating the Rev. Al Sharpton singing, “Barack The Magic Negro.” Limbaugh has continued [...]

“How black are his politics?”. A racist question, but that’s okay. No one else cares, so CandidatesBlog won’t make a stink about it either. In this video, Eric Dyson defends (through attacks, not actual “defense” as the word is normally used) Barack Obama from criticism of being all flash and no substance.

Candidates Edwards, Obama, Biden, Kucinich and Dodd debate partial-birth abortion.

John Edwards doesn’t believe there’s a “global war on terror,” at least not in the simple-show-of-hands sense.
This is something a lot of Democrats say privately — and something mainstream pols everywhere else in the world say publicly — but it contests a Bush administration premise in a way very few American politicians have been comfortable [...]