Lynn Sweet Covers Barack and Hillary in the Chicago Sun-Times

Obama--Iraq media blitz:

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) poised for a 2008 White House run, sprinted through a series of interviews Wednesday night and Thursday morning in a mini-media blitz to react to President Bush's sending more troops to Iraq. Interesting, in the NBC interview this morning Obama, in response to a question, does not say if he will support Sen. Ted Kennedy's legislation that could force the president's hand on Iraq.

Obama hit CNN's Larry King, MSNBC, ABC's Nightline, and NBC's the Today Show at the top of the program this morning. (Here's his interview with Olbermann.) Contrast that to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), whose strategy on Bush's Iraq package is to avoid the national media spotlight.

Hillary Clinton gets key endorsement for 2008 bid:

Soon after Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) makes a 2008 presidential run official, she will win the endorsement of the nation's largest political action committee.

"We are going to be there early on," Ellen Malcolm, the president of Emily's List told me. The backing from Emily's List, while not a surprise, gives Clinton, who already has a muscular organization in place, an institutional running start over chief rivals Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.).