When San Francisco blogger Sasha McGee noticed that Gavin Newsom was being feted by PG&E and AT&T at the Denver convention, it wasn't much of a surprise to see a DLC candidate running for governor of the largest state. What was a surprise, was that Moveon was also listed as a sponsor.

I have little doubt that Senator Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic Nominee had it not been for her caving to right wing talking points and voting for the Iraq War. Being on the wrong side the the biggest foreign policy disaster in a generation is what advanced her career from inevitable nominee to junior senator. At the time, many of us in the netroots were flabbergasted, we knew it was a disastrous course of action and came to the conclusion that those who sided with George Bush and the neocons either had no grasp of the situation or were doing it for as a purely political calculation (and a poor one at that as Clinton discovered).

Iraq was the single biggest foreign policy decision, but when it comes to the global climate crisis, I'm getting a sense of déjà vu from the positioning and language used by San Francisco Mayor and 2010 California Gubernatorial hopeful Gavin Newsom as to why he's siding with PG&E against the Sierra Club on clean, renewable energy.

As many of you saw, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom gave a green speech introduction for Van Jones on Sunday at Netroots Nation. But immediately after his green speech, a local blogger asked a very important question:

I just asked Newsom if he would support the Clean Energy Act.  At first, he said yes -- absolutely.  Then he said, "oh are you talking about the one about PG&E?"  I said yes.  He said, "oh no it's horrible."  I asked him to elaborate, but he would not.  I then asked, "is that because your consultant [Eric Jaye] is working for PG&E?"  Newsom denied it, but really.  It was kinda pathetic.

Indeed. As we all know, Al Gore thinks the entire country needs to go 100% clean electrically by 2019 and Mayor Newsom won't try for his city to do the same by 2040?

Disclosure: MySpace is paying my travel
MANCHESTER-Following John Edwards and Barack Obama, tonight (7PM eastern) John McCain will be the first Republican candidate to participate in a MySpace/MTV interactive forum.

It should be an interesting night. On one had, New Hampshire's same day registration provision allows candidates on both sides of the aisle potential for a youth surge not showing up in the polls -- which could be a substantive boost in the expectations spin. For McCain specifically, he has been bleeding market share in the MySpace friends primary. I'll be looking to the interactive perspective as it fascinates me. What do you think I should be looking for during the event?

Late in the evening of October 23, 2004, I coined the term Blogosphere Day. At the time, I was directing the online campaign in PA-08 for Ginny Schrader (D-Blogosphere) and was trying to do anything possible to hype her campaign. Little did I know what would become of a two minute entry on dkosopedia.

To be perfectly honest, I'd forgotten about it until it showed up in the National Journal just as Tim Tagaris and I were plotting on when to kick of the online fundraising for Paul Hackett. The rest, as they say, is history.

Today, there has already been $16,395 raised online for ActBlue. Yet if every US Senator who has applauded the event were to max out, that number would triple.

A couple of other thoughts on the tradition and on teamwork...

I'm proud to announce Director Robert Greenwald will be the very Special Guest at tonight's blograiser in San Francisco. And Digby is headlining our event in Santa Monica. Tonight will so be what comes before Part B.

Out in CA we are doing end of the quarter, real world events (one in SF and one in LA).

We are pretty much asking people to donate to the Calitics actblue page and show up at a bar. If you live nearby, attend. If you don't, you should throw one of these for your actblue list in your state.

This should become a tradition -- we have five more chances to do it again before the '08 elections. What do you think, are you up for throwing some coin towards your favorite candidates and throwing back a few with your favorite netroot-types at the end of the quarter?

Hillary Clinton supporters supporters have such poor taste they chose a song from Celine Dion as her campaign theme song. It wasn't actually even a song, but was created for Air Canada as an ad tune. It was contract work (something Hillary's chief advisor knows a thing or two about).

But it gets better, check out the lyrics:

I'm burning, yearning
Gently turning round and round
I'm always rising up I never
Want to come back down

Remember, this is a song for Air Canada (a foreign company, at tha). It seeks to tap into the emotion of people who just want to go somewhere, but don't care to come back down to end up anywhere. It isn't about a goal, just about hearing voices saying to keep running. A song written to be an ad that talks about Spin and Ambition for the sake of it -- maybe Clinton supporters don't have poor taste, just know their candidate well...