Dick Wadhams

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The CO-5 race this week turns topsy-turvy providing a winner and a loser; while Dems and the GOP can't agree about energy, making us all losers. So check in with Wally Edge for this week's Weekly Winners & Losers: it's guaranteed to make all your weekend plans that much more enjoyable provided you live in seclusion.

Obama makes official what we've known all along: he breaks his pledge to use only public money to finance his campaign. And the Inside Edge gets GOP's Chairman Dick Wadhams' response.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's campaign launched its first general election TV ad in 18 states Thursday, including Colorado.

The ad, entitled "Country I Love," features Obama introducing himself to voters and addresses questions made in recent months about his patriotism and values.

"I was raised by a single mom and my grandparents," Obama says in the ad. "We didn’t have much money, but they taught me values straight from the Kansas heartland where they grew up. Accountability and self-reliance. Love of country."

But Colorado Republican Party Chair Dick Wadhams said in an e-mail that, "The ad certainly is at odds with a guy who can't decide whether to embrace or run from his inflammatory, anti-American pastor or his slum lord political benefactor."

The full script of the ad, after the jump.

In today's Inside Edge, a would-be king takes a fling at the real king of the right wing in Colorado... and he misses. He finds out soon enough that maybe it's better not to throw rocks at someone with better aim and a better arm.  

The enemies list that the Clintons keep, and never trim, gets longer according to several NY Times outlets. So in today's Inside Edge Wally takes a look at what a Colorado enemies list might look like.

A Denver Post piece today dovetails nicely with yesterday's Washington Times piece on how the Democrats won the West. So in today's Inside Edge, Wally takes a look at the upside Colorado brings to Obama and the potential downside Obama brings to the Democrats.    

It's time once again for our monthly update of the Top Ten Power Positions by the Inside Edge's very own Wally Edge. This month we get a new player on the board and Dick moves up one spot!

Mitt Romney will speak on behalf of John McCain during next week's Colorado Republican Party convention in Broomfield, the Rocky Mountain News is reporting.

Also, state GOP Chair Dick Wadhams told the Rocky that turnout for the convention, scheduled for May 31 at the Broomfield Event Center, will rival the historic turnout for the state Democratic convention held last week in Colorado Springs.