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- In an interview yesterday morning, John McCain remarked that bringing troops home from Iraq was "not too important," adding that "What's important is the casualties in Iraq."
- As Sam noted earlier, the one-day controversy over Obama veep vetter Jim Johnson has finally ended with Johnson's resignation. "Jim did not want to distract in any way from the very important task of gathering information about my vice presidential nominee," Obama explained in comments.
- This unintentionally amusing story in the Times about the Clintons' "enemies list" reminded me how much of our contemporary political lexicon derives from the Nixon presidency.
- Gallup shows women beginning to line up behind Obama after Hillary Clinton's graceful exit from the race.
- Noah Scheiber has more information on former NATO Supreme Allied Commander (and potential Obama VP) James Jones over at TNR's Stump.
- Paul Krugman urges labor and liberal activists to chill out about Obama's new economic advisor Jason Furman while Yglesias reminds us that Furman stood strong against Social Security privatization in 2005.
- Genealogy of a smear: David Weigel bemusedly traces the latest efforts at wingnut investigative journalism -- why Barack Obama won't release his Hawaii birth certificate. In related news, Salon columnist (God knows why) Camille Paglia discovers about right-wing radio the "hackneyed repetition is numbing and tedious, and the overt character assassination is ethically indefensible. Talk radio will lose its broad audience if it continues on this nakedly partisan path." What a scoop!
- A Democracy Corps and Democratic Strategist report each suggest that Obama's down-ticket coattails could be of landslide proportions.
- And finally: asked about any potential role for Dick Cheney in a McCain administration, The Maverick replied, with trademark Straight Talk: "Hell yeah!"
--Mori Dinauer
