The Daily Background

Two notable quotes from potential Dem ‘08ers over the past 24 hours or so… First one is an exchange at the end of an interview between Senator Barack Obama and CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

BLIZTER: I’ll leave you with a quick political question Senator, uh, Senator Biden, your colleague from Delaware said the other day “I’ll be a little surprised if he actually does run. Obama is on everone’s number two list.” I guess that’s a backhanded compliment, you wanna be President, or you wanna be Vice President?

OBAMA: Well, you don’t run for Vice President [huge smile]

BLITZER: So what does that mean? You wanna be– you want to run for President?

OBAMA: I, I, I… I answered the question Wolf, I gotta go vote.

You can watch the video of that exchange here (YouTube).

The next quote is from an exchange between Al Gore and Matt Lauer on NBC’s The Today Show. The topic is Iraq:

GORE: I think that this Iraq disasters is not gonna wait till 2008 or 2010 or whatever [the Iraq Study Group] is talking about here, this is unfolding very rapidly. This is even worse than a civil war.

You can watch a video of that exchange here (YouTube).

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