Obama finally declared this weekend that he's going to start running for President of the United States instead of class president. (I'm paraphrasing.) And now a movement springs up from the liberal grassroots. I note Ben Smith's recent post on politico.com: the liberal effort to make a run at Hillary before it's too late, sparked by (full disclosure) my former classmate and fellow Yale Daily News editor, Glenn Hurowitz. We may have a race yet:

"A newly formed political action committee is aiming to stop Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary by calling into question her progressive credentials.

"We think there are other Democratic presidential candidates who are both more progressive and have a better chance of beating the Republicans than she does," said the president of Democratic Courage, Glenn Hurowitz.

He declined to tip his hand on the group's case against Clinton, but said the PAC plans a paid media campaign in the early primary states to make its position clear.

"We’ll definitely have sufficient resources to make a significant media buy," he said, adding that their campaign against Clinton would be "edgy" enough to get attention. "We don’t need to raise an immense amount of money to make a big difference."

Hurowitz, 29, is a Washington-based writer and activist. (He has written freelance Ideas articles for Politico, including this piece criticizing Clinton's and Obama's energy plans.) The group's two other officers are Sam Goldman and David Lipowicz, both of whom have worked for liberal and environmental groups in Washington."

On his blog, Hurowitz has this to say about Paul Wellstone:

"Unlike most politicians, Wellstone believed that election victories -- and even good governance -- flow not primarily from the people in office, but rather from the competing strength of the great movements that put them there."