Obama Apologizes for Saying U.S. Troops' Lives Wasted in Iraq.

From abcnews.com
"Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., entered the race for the White House over the weekend and is immediately feeling the hot spotlight of scrutiny that accompanies a presidential campaign.

Obama has twice apologized since implying that U.S. troops had died in vain, telling a rally crowd in Ames, Iowa, on Sunday, "We ended up launching a war that should have never been authorized, and should never been waged, and on which we have now spent $400 billion, and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted."

Barack on 60 Minutes

A clearly enamored Steve Kroft interviews Senator Barack Obama on the Big Sixty.

Obama Winning Myspace Race

From SFGate.com
In case you're counting, a new group blog called techPresident tracks, among other things, how many "friends" the leading presidential candidates have on MySpace.

Sen. Barack Obama is leading all Democrats with more than 38,000 friends. Sen. Hillary Clinton is in second place with about 12,000 even after a sudden plunge in the number of friends professing support. (That's John Edwards in third place on the techPresident graph, followed by other Democratic candidates.)

from techpresident.com

The Clinton MySpace page, which isn't an official campaign site, is back up and has posted the following message:

"For some reason MySpace deleted us recently. We are working to get back to 24,000 friends. Please re-add us send out a bulletin letting your friends know to support Hillary on MySpace."

Obama Aims, Fires at Hillary

From London's Telegraph newspaper












and from Politico.com

NewsMax: In Iowa - Obama Hot, Clinton...Not So Much

From Newsmax.com

Obama's Rapid Response to Aussie PM's Attack

Yes.
Team Obama has learned a lesson from the Madrassa Mess. Instead of letting negative comments from Australian Prime Minister John Howard marinate and generate more bad headlines than necessary - the Senator came out swinging immediately.
Sunday morning, Bush buddy Howard was bashing Barack's plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. But by early afternoon the Senator's staff had issued a very well crafted response. Then, by mid-afternoon...networks like CNN were airing comments from Obama himself, as he fired back from Iowa.