Our second Blue America function today will be a fun one. At 4:00pm Eastern / 1:00pm Pacific, Howie Klein and the Chicago blogosphere will interview John Laesch in a live vlog. John will be announcing his 08 candidacy for IL14, and we'll have quite a group of blog-guests joining Howie and John.

We'll be taking questions via Firedoglake - and all the instructions for viewing the vlog can be found at FDL or at DWT's World HQ.

From Howie: Well, I'll be eager to ask John what he would have done different from the Democrats to end the occupation of Iraq. I hope everyone saw what Darcy Burner said about it.

John Amato: I pulled off the embed player. Thanks to LivebroadcastTv... The LiveVlogging was very cool...More to come on that front...Brought to you by Blue America '08. If you can, throw a few bucks to Laesch.