So Obama is almost certainly not running for the 2008 election, but I had to include this strange piece of news. He’s been campaigning for ex-klansman Sen. Robert Byrd. The same guy who filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act is being represented by my favorite senator ever.

In a letter to it’s members MoveOn.org had Obama make a request for campaign funds on behalf of Sen. Byrd. Within 48 hours they’d raised almost $900K.

This is either an odd friendship or Obama knows that doing crappy jobs is part of being a senator.