From the NYT:

Former Vice President Al Gore will appear in Detroit tonight for his debut campaign appearance with Senator Barack Obama, extending an endorsement and urging all Democrats to rally behind the party’s fall ticket.

Let’s be honest, this is just another excuse for Dr. Gore to bloviate about global warming.

ABC News is confirming that the “son of a mill worker” himself, John Edwards will be endorsing Barack Obama at an event tonight.

Up to this point Edwards and his wife have allegedly remained “neutral” and refrained from publicly endorsing anyone. But let’s be real, it’s not like Edwards was ever going to endorse anyone but Obama.

John Edwards is America’s biggest fraud and it goes without saying that he was gonna jump on whatever bus the cool kids were on, which for Democrats is whatever bus Barack Obama is riding on.

In his first major public address since a cancer crisis, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the “hope of the entire world” that the U.S. will change for the better.

“This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better,” he said. “This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama’s audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed.”

He went on to compare Obama with Nation of Islam founder Fard Muhammad, who also had a white mother and a black father.

“A black man with a white mother became a savior to us,” he told the crowd of mostly followers. “A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall.”

It’s a real ringing endorsement to have a racist thug like Farrakhan sing your praises. The real change we need in this country is for people to reject idiots like Farrakhan instead of gathering to hear him speak.

-Chris Jones

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will endorse John McCain on today, giving a boost to the Republican presidential front-runner days before the big California primary.

The two will appear at a news conference after touring a Los Angeles-based solar energy company and the governor will make his endorsement official, his senior aides confirmed.

Schwarzenegger’s endorsement comes as McCain heads toward the nomination, the only Republican candidate to have won three hotly contested primaries in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida since voting began earlier this month.

This latest endorsement is another setback for Mitt Romney. Although he certainly looks Presidential and has maintained a conservative message throughout the campaign, Romney’s message for some reason isn’t resonating with voters.

Even if some conservatives have doubts about Romney, staunch Republicans have big doubts about John McCain because of his tendency to break from the party when key votes are at stake.

So it would seem that Romney could really use that to his advantage, but for the moment it looks like McCain just about has a lock on the nomination.

-Chris Jones

Barack Obama is being endorsed by fellow Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats’ 2004 presidential nominee who lost to President Bush that year with John Edwards as his running mate.

Besides any potential help for Obama, the endorsement is a slap at Edwards, Kerry’s former running mate.

The two had their differences during the campaign over strategy and spending, and Edwards has said he would have been more aggressive in challenging the unsubstantiated allegations of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth questioning Kerry’s military record.

Pat Robertson, one of the most influential figures to the evangelical segment of America announced his support for Rudy Giuliani’s candidacy this morning.

Robertson’s support was coveted by several of the leading Republican candidates and provides Giuliani with a major boost as the former New York City mayor seeks to convince social conservatives that, despite his positions on abortion and gay rights, he is an acceptable choice as the GOP nominee.

One major effect of Robertson’s support for Giuliani is that it will quiet talk in social conservative circles that nominating Giuliani would lead “values voters” to abandon the Republican Party. This proves what I have suspected all along. “Value “voters” are planning to be pragmatic this time around.

In a post 9/11 world, abortions and gays just don’t have the same weight they once did. The number one concern of social conservatives and with almost all Republicans is which candidate will most aggressively fight the War on Terror?

With every single stump speech the Democrats prove they are too weak and too emotional to be trusted with National Security. They don’t have the guts to get the necessary information out of terror suspects no matter what it takes.

-Chris Jones