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- Former Vice President Al Gore is officially endorsing the candidacy of Barack Obama, appearing with the presumptive Democratic Nominee in Detroit, Michigan rally tonight.
- The Obama campaign announced a number of top campaign staff positions today, including former Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle in the role of VP nominee chief of staff and former Edward Kennedy aide Stephanie Cutter as Michelle Obama's senior adviser.
- David Frum floats the idea of Rudy Giuliani for McCain's VP, leading Matt Yglesias to note positively, "At a minimum, I think this choice would be good news for liberal bloggers. Tim Pawlenty seems much less mockable."
- In other veep news, Newt Gingrich keeps the Bobby Jindal flame alive, despite the Louisiana governor's affinity for exorcism and boosting creationism "science."
- Stephen Mansfield, evangelical biographer, has written a forthcoming book, The Faith of Barack Obama, despite having previously written flattering biographies of both Tom DeLay and George W. Bush's faith, Politico reports.
- The NY TImes has a good story today on Obama's executive style.
- John Bicknell writes in CQ Politics that 2008 ought to be a blowout -- the only question is whether it resembles 1956 or 1980. David Paul Kuhn disagrees in the Politico, reporting that a survey of bipartisan historians conclude that McCain doesn't "stand much of a chance, if any."
- Greg Sargent has a lengthy report on the media's often unfair treatment of Hillary Clinton during the primaries.
- The Sunday Times reports on a 1974 thesis written by John McCain at the National War College following his release from imprisonment in Vietnam which sheds some light on the genesis of his foreign policy views.
--Mori Dinauer
