Political Grapevine: 8/7

" And now the most tantalizing few minutes in television the latest from the political grapevine. Some Democrats are saying John Edwards needs to publicly address storage in the national enquirer that he had an affair with a campaign worker and father her child. The Charlotte observer reports that if the former democratic presidential candidate. Fails to provide a sufficient response party officials may not ask him to speak at the democratic convention in Denver later this month. Former North Carolina Democratic Party chairman Don Fowler says quote. If there is not an explanation that's satisfactory acceptable and meets high moral standards the answer is no he would not be a prime candidate to make a major address to the convention. And Gary -- who ran Edwards 1998 senate campaign says quote it's clearly getting ready to bust out. If it's not true he's got to stand up and say this is not true. The Democratic Party has not yet officially released its schedule of convention speakers. Let's series of campaign ads that John McCain released over the past two weeks appears to be working. At least on the Internet. The Washington times reports the ads focusing on the celebrity of democratic rival Barack Obama. Have pushed McCain's YouTube channel to the six most watch on the all watched on the website this week. McCain's YouTube web page has beaten Obama's for seven straight days and eleven of the last fourteen that is a huge turnaround. The tracking service to Mobil says Obama had been quadrupling McCain's YouTube views and had beaten him every day since February. Liberal activist group move on dot org has circulated an on line video attacking Senator McCain. It shows McCain calling for congress to come back to Washington and work on an energy bill pointing out that McCain has missed more votes than any other sender this year. To drive home that point the video shows an arrow pointing to an empty seat the problem. The -- highlighted in the video -- in the house chamber. John McCain as a senator and therefore would sit in the Senate chamber. While McCain has missed the most votes in the 110 congress Obama is the third biggest defender. Only sender Tim Johnson of South Dakota separates the two but he suffered a brain hemorrhage in December of 2006 and spent several months. Recovering. And finally Saudi Arabia will field an Olympic team that includes equestrian swimmers shooters. And weight lifter but cyber cast news reports the Saudi team does not include a single woman. In the eight Summer Olympics in which the kingdom has participated since 1972. It has set a total of 166. Man and no -- The International Olympic Committee forbids discrimination with regard to sex. But a member of the Saudi royal family sits on the IOC's 110 member committee. The director of the Washington based institute for gulf affairs says the kingdom stance against female participation is worse than south Africa's sports policies on reports -- Quote Saudi women are not allowed to Iran to play soccer. To do anything. For some."