Sources say that Obama has made up his mind to run for president in 2008

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This should make a lot of the red avatars on this board pretty happy, assuming it's true.   This is courtesy of Robert Novak at realclearpolitics

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/12/inside_report_obama_runs.html
Inside Report: Obama Runs
By Robert Novak

OBAMA RUNS

Contrary to reports that Barack Obama is still trying to make up his mind whether to seek the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, sources close to the first-term senator say he is unequivocally committed to making the race.

The word has spread through political circles that Obama's wife, Michelle, is resisting the campaign out of fear for her husband's physical safety as an African-American candidate for president. But an Obama insider dismissed that as a problem. "We took care of that last summer," he told this column.

A footnote: Obama advisers were surprised how much the prospect of his campaign has shaken front-running Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. For the first time, she has asserted that she would have voted against going to war in Iraq if she knew then what she knows now.