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Obama’s first commercial, currently being shown in Iowa, shows Republican praising him.

Full text story about the first Obama commercial is below:

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OBAMA IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT ‘08! 

So were you among the 15,000 or so people  in Illinois on Saturday to  witness Obama’s announcement? Did you  watch the live streaming webcast?

I was lazy and didn’t feel like getting up early to watch myself, so I watched it yesterday at my leisure.  It’s 30+ minutes long, however, most of it wasn’t speech, but rather music over top of watching Obama smile, wave, and shake hands before and after his speech. Honestly, I think the music may have been my favorite part. Their choice of songs was amusing and had me laughing.

While listening, I also signed up for “My” BarackObama.com account.  The Obama campaign has been criticized in the past for having a lame non-interactive site.  Well, it seems someone’s taken note and produced the most community oriented interactive campaign sites I’ve ever seen (okay, I don’t visit many politicians’ websites, but still!)

The new Barack Obama site is set up like a social networking site à la Myspace/LiveJournal. You can create a profile and network with people in your local area, invite friends to join, blog (I think I’ll keep my Today.com blog), find out about local events, and I suppose most importantly to Obama: FUNDRAISE by creating a fundraising goal page and then email all your friends begging for contributions on Obama’s behalf in order to watch your fundraising goal bar inch up.

Oh and any new hip politician site isn’t complete without their very OWN BLOG.  Keep an eye on it for the latest updates!

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Here is a Preview Video of an announcement set to be made live on the web tomorrow morning at BarackObama.com

Senator Obama will be making a speech about his plans for the future in Springfield, Illinois on Saturday morning.

We are all invited to watch a live video feed of the event on BarackObama.com, which will be a brand new site in the morning.

Here are the details:

Live Video Feed from Springfield, Illinois
10:55 AM Eastern / 9:55 AM Central / 8:55 AM Mountain / 7:55 AM Pacific
http://www.barackobama.com