Hilary Rodham Clinton is in for a fight

If the early fundraising is any indication of things to come for the Democrat nomination, Hilary might just not be the leader very long. Relative new comer, Barack Obama is winning over some of the big money people. That will not bode well for Clinton who is expected to be a strong fundraiser and she expects to raise more than $100 million dollars.

Unfortunately for Hilary, Obama seems to be winning over the Hollywood elite and if he continues to win them over she just might not raise enough money to bankroll her run for the White House in 2008.

As far as I am concerned it couldn't happen to a better person. If she smart she would drop out and get behind Obama or Edwards and help them win the nomination.

Barack Obama makes it official; he is running in 2008

Over the weekend the junior Senator from Illinois officially tossed his hat into the already very crowded ring for the Democrat nomination for President in 2008. The very charismatic Obama will face very stiff competition from the money raising machine in Hilary Rodham Clinton.

One of the advantages Obama will have over Clinton is that Obama never voted for the war in Iraq like Hilary did and that will come back to haunt her even in 2008. However, Obama's relative inexperience will be a barrier against Hilary who has been around the political block so to speak.

Obama won't have to fight an uphill battle against the issue of the War in Iraq, since he wasn't in Congress at the time of the vote to give Bush the authority to go to war in Iraq. As a matter of fact, one of the main reasons he won the Senate seat he holds now was because he campaigned on his stance against the War in Iraq.

Hopefully he won't concede to early to Clinton and sticks around for the whole fight and ultimately beats out Hilary for the Democrat nomination.

Is the media trying to generate a controversy?

The media is making a mountain out of a mole hill over the request by Speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi to have a military jet available to her to fly her nonstop to her home district of San Francisco.

The request isn't unusual since it became policy that the Speak of the House, who is third in line of succession to the Presidency would be afforded military transport back and forth to their home district. This policy went into effect follow 9/11 and has been used by former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.

It appears that the reason it even peaked the medias interest is because she requested a plane that could make the trip nonstop from Washington to San Francisco. To satisfy her request would require a military version of a 757 commercial jetliner.

To avoid any hint of misuse of the plane, some travel restrictions are placed on the use of the jet; family members can accompany the Speaker on the plane, but they would have to re-imburse the government at the regular commercial coach fare and the plane cannot be used by her to attend political functions.

It sure seem to me that the media is trying to make a big deal out of a non-issue and even the White House back her request for the plane.

Exxon Mobil is linked to a group seeking to debunk Global Warning

It was reported that a think tank that lists Exxon Mobil as a contributor circulated a letter offering $10,000.00 to any scientist willing to debunk the recent report on Global Warming.

It wasn't very shocking to read that one of the biggest contributors to the causes of Global Warming would be linked to group that is trying to discredit all the scientific community that has spent years researching the effects of the rise in global temperatures and the suspected human causes.

First we find out that the Bush Administration is being suspected of pressuring scientists into downplaying the results of the study and now we see that Exxon Mobil may have been doing the same thing.

The same company that reported a record profit last year of over $39 billion dollars from the sales of oil, is trying to down play the reports results that burning of fossil fuels is a leading cause greenhouse gases.

If the Bush Administration would put more effort into creating an environmentally responsible Energy Policy as they do trying to debunk Global Warming, we would be much better off.