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* Potential presidential candidate Barack Obama Monday called for U.S. troops to start being pulled out of Iraq in 2007. The Illinois senator offered his thoughts on Iraq during a speech in Chicago -- the same day a new CNN poll showed that he is one of the top tier candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination if he chooses to run in 2008. (See Political Hot Topics below for speech coverage and a link to the CNN poll)
Just hours before Obama delivered his speech on Iraq, a new website urging the Illinois senator to run for president went live. The website, http://www.runobama.com/, is the brainchild of Democratic political operative Todd Webster, who served as former Minority Leader Tom Daschle's, D-South Dakota, spokesman as well as an aide on former Vice President Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign.
"To run for president is a huge undertaking and the goal is to let Barack Obama know there will be an army of grassroots supporters to help his campaign if he decides to run," Webster tells the CNN Political Ticker.
Webster, president of the public affairs and communications firm Webster Strategies, is not the only former Daschle staffer with an affinity for Obama. The Illinois senator's chief-of -staff is Pete Rouse, who held the same position with Daschle. And one of the South Dakota Democrat's top political advisers Steve Hildebrand is also an unpaid adviser to Obama. The new website, http://www.runobama.com/, joins www.draftobama.org in the Obama cyberspace draft movement.
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