By now you've certainly seen at least one of Mario Diaz-Balart's baselesssmearsagainst Joe Garcia. You would think that if a sitting member of Congress is going to toss out what little integrity he has left, he would limit the mud-slinging to only his opponent. You'd be wrong about Diaz-Balart.

He's now sending his lobbyist/personal secretary/campaign manager to make personal smears against a decorated Iraq war veteran.

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Markos makes a post that deserves clarification:

Not so. I have no idea why Markos is pulling DailyKos out of the "Blue Majority" page, but MyDD dropped out of the "Blue Majority" ActBlue page in the Fall of 2007, nine months ago. The reason why MyDD dropped out of it was because of BlogPac's (which Blue Majority funded) decision to target Red State Democrats that hold seats where only a conservative Democrat can win.

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Act Blue has announced it's latest Candidate to be added to the Blue Majority page.

Quoted from OpenLeft by Chris Bowers

I just made my first contribution to Barack Obama, and I did it though the Blue Majority page on Act Blue. Now, I am asking you to do the same, since Barack Obama is the latest candidate to be added to the Blue Majority page.

Ever since the Blue Majority page was launched nearly one year ago, we at Blue Majority knew that we would add the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee to the page. In my opinion, Barack Obama has now emerged as the presumptive nominee. With a pledged delegate lead of 162, a popular vote lead of more than 800,000, barring a spectacular collapse and / or a highly unlikely thwarting of the popular vote, Barack Obama will become the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. When he reaches 2,024 delegates, which at this point requires only 42.7% of the remaining delegates to be decided, he will control both the credentials committee and the majority of the non-disputed delegates at the floor of the convention. At that point, the only way that Barack Obama loses the nomination is if he decides that Hillary Clinton should be the nominee instead. In other words, Barack Obama has become the presumptive Democratic nominee, and it is time to start supporting him.

Importantly, my rationale for endorsing Barack Obama goes beyond his status as the overwhelming favorite to win the nomination. As a progressive, there are two key ideological markers that I believe make Barack Obama a better choice than Hillary Clinton: the Iraq war and the DLC. First, Barack Obama opposed the invasion of Iraq from the start, and rejected the neoconservative principle of pre-emptive warfare as one of his main reasons for opposing the war. Being able to identify the invasion of Iraq as a colossal mistake makes Barack Obama far more qualified to lead our country than candidates who both were, and still are, unable to recognize why the war was such a bad idea. Comparing Obama's and Clinton's statements on the death of 4,000 American soldiers in Iraq, it seems clear that Hillary Clinton still believes in the neoconservative vision for Iraq, while Barack Obama does not. The second ideological marker is the Democratic Leadership Council, an organization formed to push the Democratic Party and the national political debate to the right on a variety of issues. While Hillary Clinton is a member of the DLC's leadership, Barack Obama has repeated refuses to be associated with the group.

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Friends,

As you already know, today is the last day of the all important 3rd quarter filing deadline for campaigns and I'm sure your inbox has been filled up with requests for donations and support. I want to take a moment to first thank everyone at DailyKos, Openleft, MyDD, and the Swing State Project for deciding to add my race to their Blue Majority page as well those of you who have decided to support my race and the other Blue Majority candidates. The support of bloggers is incredibly valuable and we simply cannot win without your help. Today, I want to take a moment to address you in video which is something I haven't been able to do as often as I like (though your contributions are helping us build out our staff and increase our capabilities):

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Were you waiting until the last minute before making your contributions this quarter? If so, we're getting just about there, with the quarter ending this Sunday. So the time is now to head over to the Blue Majority ActBue page to make an important difference. For the week, we're hoping for 500 donors and we're getting close. Head over and make a contribution of even $10 today.

Want to help out your favorite presidential candidate or another federal candidate not on the Blue Majority list? No problem! Head over to ActBlue and make a contribution today, too. The money that comes in through Sunday will be extremely important as it will make it on to the third quarter campaign finance reports, which serve as an important guide to the politics watchers and donors alike to the viability of candidates.

So one more time, go to the Blue Majority ActBue page today and make your difference felt.

Feel free to consider this an open thread, perhaps on the candidate(s) you're supporting this time around. What Senate campaign should we be throwing $5 to before Sunday night? Which congressional campaign are we missing?

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