| 11:14 PM: | Obama's VP choice imminent via website, e-mail, text message. This modern tech announcement gimmick, of course, also has the added benefit of presumably getting thousands of people to offer the campaign their e-mail addresses and cellphone numbers, a priceless, free recruiting and fundraising tool. LA Times. | |
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| 9:54 PM: | Obama: At Home in the Islands. Barack Obama, a native Hawaiian, continues to have local appeal in the state where he grew up. NYT. | |
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| 9:54 PM: | Israeli Air Force, Carl Icahn. If any country takes the nuclear threat from Iran more seriously than the United States, it's Israel. Bob Simon reports. 60 Minutes. | |
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| 9:53 PM: | Why isn't Obama crushing McCain? A conversation with two prominent journalists and a Bush-Cheney campaign official about why, in what should be a Democratic year, Obama can't put McCain away. Salon. | |
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| 9:51 PM: | Give Edwards a Break. Even political figures ought to be allowed to survive a sex scandal if they have something worthy to offer. Craig Crawford. | |
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| 9:49 PM: | New Obama book coming this fall. There's another book coming out about Barack Obama, just as the campaign trail begins to reach a fever pitch. Politico. | |
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| 9:48 PM: | Life Sentence. Gloria Feldt, then the CEO of the group's local chapter, got a phone call. "Congressman McCain is here," a staffer told her, "and he is screaming and it is upsetting the patients." New Republic. | |
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| 3:03 PM: | Chelsea Clinton, not Bill Clinton, to introduce Hillary Clinton at convention. Some Clinton and Obama partisans had assumed Clinton would be introduced by her husband, former President Bill Clinton, but Democratic sources say it was Hillary's idea to have Chelsea do the honors. Daily News. | |
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| 2:25 PM: | Voters in Valley fleeing the GOP. The Republican Party, which overtook Valley Democrats in voter registration totals eight years ago, is losing ground for the first time in at least a decade. Fresno Bee. | |
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| 11:55 AM: | The rise and fall of John Edwards. The immediate consequences of Edwards' fall will be the loss of a prime-time slot at this month's Democratic convention and, almost certainly, any job in a Barack Obama administration. Some doubt he has a political future at all. Charlotte Obser. | |
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| 7:57 AM: | GOP Finds They're $10 Mil Short for Convention. Execs discover they're about $10 million short of what they needed for a celebration they've already scaled back. Officials say they have already secured most of the funds and that meeting budget needs was never in doubt. Mark Halperin. | |
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| 5:52 AM: | Obama takes on McCain state by state, with ads tailored to local issues. The campaign last week went after McCain in Ohio with an ad that tries to tie him to potential job losses there. The new one higlights McCain's support for the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, to air only in Nevada. USA Today. | |
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| 4:56 AM: | McCain: Obama seeks to 'legislate failure' in Iraq. Republican John McCain on Saturday issued a scathing critique of Barack Obama's judgment and readiness to be commander in chief, telling a veterans' group his Democratic rival had tried to "legislate failure" in Iraq and placed his own ambition ahead of military success there. AP. | |
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| 4:54 AM: | The netroots: Don't mention FISA. The online activists are angry with Barack Obama. But only a bit. The Economist. | |
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| 3:04 AM: | Clinton was advised to portray Obama as foreign. Forthcoming Atlantic article to publish many of her campaign's internal communications. Politico. | |
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