Recently major news broke out about Climategate which came out on November 14th and the e-mails were made public on the 21st. Major news stations are reporting that this is used as a tool to force Obama to reconsider going to the conference. Its said that Borack first announced he will be attending Copenhagen on November 25th but an unsure why the large media outlets are calling it a smear campaign if the emails were released before Obama ever announced if he would be attending….

In his new book The Audacity to Win, Obama for America campaign manager David Plouffe recalls that Sen. John McCain’s selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate was a fundraising boon — for the Obama campaign.

“We had taken in millions of dollars in the three hours since Palin had started speaking,” Plouffe recalls. “We hadn’t even asked for most of it; we had sent out just a single unplanned fund-raising email highlighting her attacks on community organizers, but it was just starting to hit people’s in-boxes as I checked the numbers. So the big response from the last three hours meant people were merely venting via contribution.

“Her speech might have ginned up their base, but apparently it had sent ours into orbit ,” Plouffe continues. “The image that came into my mind was of people sitting home with a computer on their laps, watching the Palin speech, and getting angrier and angrier, contributing again and then again. ‘I hope she keeps this up,’ I thought. ‘Sarah Palin has now become our best fund-raiser.’