Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to serve on McCain's '08 Bid Board

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Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge will serve as national co-chair of Republican John McCain's presidential exploratory committee, the campaign said Wednesday... Ridge, a former two-term Pennsylvania governor, served as first head of the nation's newly created Department of Homeland Security from 2003 to 2005. He praised McCain's leadership in a statement announcing his support for the Arizona senator's bid for the White House...
Read the story at Sacbee.com

Former Democrat Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack Drops out of 2008 Presidential Race

Friday, February 23, 2007
Former Democrat Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack is dropping his bid for the 2008 Presidential Race after struggling against his better financed rivals and low poll numbers... At least that’s how I would call it.

I will be putting up a video of him officially dropping from the race when one comes out.

Until than... the way I see it, with Mr. Vilsack’s withdrawing from the race... is a field of eight Democrats still seriously running... with just 3 looking good in cash raised and popularity within their party. Those three are Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama.

With that... we wish Mr. Vilsack the best of luck in life. Who knows...? He might just get the nod to run as the Vice President Nominee next year!!!
AubreyJ.........

As promised... Watch the video HERE

File photo from TomVilsack08.com
(Note: I will drop Mr. Vilsack’s name, from the above list of those still running, in the next day or so.)

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama in a Virtual Shouting Match over Comments by Hollywood Bigwig David Geffen

FoxNews.com has a good read today that you got to check out. It goes in part like this... The battle to be the 2008 Democratic candidate for president went negative Wednesday, as leading contenders Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama got into a virtual shouting match. With more than a year and a half remaining before the next presidential election, the campaigns exchanged heated words after Clinton suggested Obama return funds to Hollywood bigwig David Geffen, who insulted Clinton in a newspaper article...
Read the rest of the story at link below...
Hillary Clinton, Obama in Hot Exchange Over Hollywood Heavyweight's Comments

Former Vice President Al Gore Rules Out A 2008 White House Bid

Former US vice president Al Gore has ruled out a bid for the White House in the 2008 elections... "I have no intention to run for president... I can't imagine in any circumstance to run for office again," said the former Democratic Vice President...
Read this story at FRANCE24.com

France is a good a place as any for a story like this one to come out on Gore...
AubreyJ.........
(Congress file photo)

Mitt Romney (R-Mass), The Former Massachusetts Governor, Officially Declares He Too Is Running For President

With the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. in the background, Mitt Romney formally announced his presidential bid today... "It is time for innovation and transformation in Washington. It is what our country needs. It is what our people deserve," Romney told supporters...
(File Photo by Mitt Romney’s Official Website)
Read the story at FoxNews.com

>>> Read the Press Release at link below...
Governor Mitt Romney's Presidential Announcement
>>> View the video HERE

Rudolph Giuliani Says He’s Committed to Running for President

Rudolph Giuliani said Saturday that he is
committed to running for president... He even suggested that a fiery 45-minute speech to a conservative audience here [a Republican State Convention in California] amounted to a declaration that he was in the race -- only to have campaign aides later try to tone down those statements...
Read this story in full at AMNY.com

Photo Credit: Jason Bedrick-Wikipedia

Senator Barack Obama Officially Launches White House Bid

Barack Obama announced his bid for president Saturday, a black man evoking Abraham Lincoln's ability to unite a nation and a Democrat portraying himself as a fresh face capable of leading a new generation... “Let us transform this nation,” he told thousands shivering in the cold at the campaign's kickoff...
Read the story at NCTimes.com

STUFF.co.nz has this take...
Obama pledges new generation of US leadership

* Watch the VIDEO HERE
(Official File BIO Photo)

Rudy Giuliani Files Candidacy Statement for White House Race 2008

In a sign that he's serious about running for the White House, the two-term mayor was filing a so-called "statement of candidacy" with the Federal Election Commission. In the process, he was eliminating the phrase "testing the waters" from earlier paperwork establishing his exploratory committee...
Read the story in full at FOXnews.com

Senator Clinton Calling Iran a Danger to the U.S. and Israel

Calling Iran a danger to the U.S. and one of Israel's greatest threats, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that "no option can be taken off the table" when dealing with that nation... "U.S. policy must be clear and unequivocal: We cannot, we should not, we must not permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons," Clinton told a crowd of Israel supporters. "In dealing with this threat … no option can be taken off the table."
Read the rest of the story at ABC NEWS - Politics