Per the Chicago Tribune, Rick Pearson recounts an interview with the Senator. A couple of interesting excerpts:
Why run:
"First of all, it requires some megalomania. It's kind of crazy. ...
"What I at least think about is, whether through luck or happenstance or serendipity or convergences between my biography and events, do I have a particular ability to bring the country together around a pragmatic, common-sense agenda for change that probably has a generational element to it as well?"
Experience factor:
"I think that experience question would be answered during the course of the campaign. Either at the end of that campaign, people would say, `He looked good on paper but the guy was kind of way too green' or at the end of the campaign they say, `He's run a really strong campaign and we think he's got something to say and we think he could lead us.'"
Here is an interesting piece from Time. It's got some numbers from a poll taken of Iowa Democrats. It turns out former Senator John Edwards is in the lead, but Obama has made a strong showing.
From KPUA out of Hawaii, Democratic leaders in the state are getting together to collect petitions in an attempt to get the Senator to run.
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