Political Parrots

Just about anyone who watches CNN has seen the announcements of Senators Obama and Clinton for exploratory committees to advise them whether or not to run for the Presidency in 2008. OK, we in the Netroots know they are going to run. Just about anyone who has submitted entries for Jeff Foxworthy's "Redneck Yard of the Week" knows they are going to run. Hillary says she is in it to win. I don't doubt for one minute that she is in it for herself and not for the good of the American people.

What I find very interesting is that both Clinton and Obama are parroting John Edwards in that they decided to announce on their websites first. Yet some moron blogorter at the HuffPo said that Obama was first to announce. Wrong. Even Elizabeth Edwards posted a comment to correct the poster:

John's YouTube and RocketBoom statement was that tomorrow in New Orleans he would announce his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president. It was not in the least confusing, and it was also not "under the radar." It may be convenient to describe his online statement that way after your original post, but it is not accurate. Furthermore, he followed this in the next day with two town halls with live online streaming video and even took questions from the online audience. We welcome everyone to this medium, a medium where candor is important because people who care about the truth are listening. A better post script for your post would have been the words that John has used but seem so hard for people to say: "I was wrong."

Then Cindy Crowley at CNN said yesterday that Mrs. Clinton's announcement followed the lead of Barack Obama's earlier in the week (while covering Sam Brownback's announcement). Oh pulezze. What planet does that correspondent live on? Mars?

Robert Scoble has rightfully been speaking up about this issue. I'm glad he is.