The American Spectator

, John Edwards , and Joe Lieberman and Rep. Dick Gephardt , former Vermont Gov. Howie Dean and Al Sharpton all have speaking slots on the February 21-22 schedule. Braun as yet does not, despite having been promised a prominent place on the two-day program. /p>

(As of Tuesday evening, after news broke that Kerry will undergo prostate surgery today, his staff had not withdrawn his name from the DNC event.)

Braun, you’ll recall, is mulling a presidential run, and has already visited Iowa on a campaign swing to get the lay of the land. She’s met twice with DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe, who had promised her slot at the winter meetings as part of a brokered deal to persuade her not to run again for the Senate seat she lost six years ago to Sen. Peter Fitzgerald.

According to the current lineup, Lieberman, Gephardt and Dean open the conference and Kerry, Edwards and Sharpton speak the following day. A DNC source said the agenda for the two-day soiree had yet to be firmed up and that “Moseley Braun is supposed to speak, but it isn’t clear her speech would coincide with other presidential candidates. All the others speaking are announced candidates. She’s still exploring her options.”