The Web on the Candidates

• TPMCafe features a post from the Nation's Katha Pollitt in which she deviates from netroots orthodoxy by attempting to understand why Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwen's presence on the John Edwards campaign was controversial. "The man is running for president, not king of the blogosphere... He wants -- he needs -- the votes of people who have never looked at a blog in their lives, who are deeply religious, culturally staid, and easily offended in about a thousand ways." she writes.

The Candidates on the Web

• Possible presidential candidate Wesley Clark has joined forces with VoteVets.org, a Iraq and Afghanistan war vet group, to produce StopIranWar.com, a site that protests President Bush's "saber rattling" toward Iran and asks Americans to sign a petition against military force in Iran.
• Over on Hillary Clinton's blog, communications director Howard Wolfson responded to David Geffen's disparaging comments about Clinton and in support of Barack Obama. "If Senator Obama is indeed sincere about his repeated claims to change the tone of our politics, he should immediately denounce these remarks, remove Mr. Geffen from his campaign and return his money. While Democrats should engage in a vigorous debate on the issues, there is no place in our party or our politics for the kind of personal insults made by Senator Obama's principal fundraiser." The comments thread is full of support for Hillary but also features calls for peace among the Democratic candidates, and level-headed critiques of Hillary's response to Geffen.
• Joe Biden and Chris Dodd are featuring videos of their speeches at the the AFSCME Democrats Forum in Nevada

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