Quick '08 Update

Submitted by Travis Valentine on 7/20/07

- For a glimpse of the sorts of questions that will arise in next week's YouTube/CNN debate, be sure to check out YouTube's site. The number of video submissions, which close on Sunday the 22nd, have reached 1700.

- As his campaign blog points out, Joe Biden, demanded results from U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker. Biden said: "We’re not staying, Mr. Ambassador, we’re not staying. We don’t have much time. Political benchmarks better be met, or we’re in real trouble because we’ll have traded a dictator for chaos.”

- Ron Paul is going to be profiled in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine. His campaign website has a preview. If you can't wait for Sunday's profile, check out this video of Ron Paul speaking in Las Vegas. (On a side note: Gov. Mike Huckabee might be a great musician in his own right, but playing Tears for Fears in his YouTube video gives Congressman Paul some cred.)

- Two interesting articles, one by JFK speechwriter and advisor Ted Sorenson and the other by JFK biographer Richard Reeves, are featured on Barack Obama's blog.

- Related note: Be sure to read Matt Bai's article on the experience of the current candidates in the race for the White House. Bai notes in the piece that, "At no time in modern history, however, have the crowded fields of both parties been so dominated by relative newcomers."

- In a speech on foreign policy in Des Moines, IA, Bill Richardson focused on issues like diplomacy and immigration. Read more in the Des Moines Register.

- Fulfilling the latest of his 12 Commitments, Rudy Giuliani unveiled his plan towards energy independence. Feel free to comment on Giuliani's plan (and/or his commitments in general) below.

- As Jonathin Martin points out in The Politico, Mitt Romney once supported similar age-appropriate sex education that Barack Obama supports. Yet he's lambasting Obama over his stance. How history has come to check present-day Mitt...

- Pleading him not to wait for the next hurricane, John Edwards encouraged President Bush to use his remaining time in office to tackle poverty in this letter. I wonder if the President reflecting his time on his Road to One America tour.

- The McCain campaign highlights the support of its intrepid New Hampshire following in the YouTube video below:

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