• Obama: I?m ?Disappointed? by McCain?s Recent Attacks
• O CRUSH
• Hello, Dalai!!
• Berlin Crowd Starts to Build
• McCain to Meet Up With Lance Armstrong in Ohio Thursday
• Obama, Merkel Discuss Mideast, Economics
• Democrats Make Convention Tickets a Recruiting Tool
• Broder: The Gods Are Smiling on Obama?s Trip
• Jobless Claims Jump By More Than Expected

• Quinnipiac: McCain Gains in Key Battleground States
• Not a Toss Up
• Obama Begins to Plan Transition
• Obama Raising Big Money in McCain's Home State
• Republicans Losing New Media War
• Is McCain Planning a Surprise Announcement?
• Obama Will Run Ads During Olympics
• WSJ/NBC Poll: Obama Maintains National Lead
• Bonus Quote of the Day

• (CNN) -- From cyberspace to college campuses, many young conservatives are worried that Sen. John McCain is not appealing to their generation. At a town hall meeting in Ohio this month, a student told McCain that Republicans were a dying breed on his campus.

• Poll: Obama Gains Big Latino Lead
• Rice Unconcerned by Obama?s Foreign Travels
• Denver Tells ACLU: No ?Brown Note? to Disrupt Convention Protests
• GOP Conventioner Planners Hope to Cajole Protesters
• Obama Arrives in Germany, Begins European Leg of Trip
• Obama to Advertise During Olympic Games
• Obama Tells Israelis He?s Committed to Their Security

• BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- U.S. presidential contender Barack Obama arrived in Germany Thursday for the latest leg of an international trip intended to bolster his foreign policy credentials at home and set out his vision for a new era of transatlantic cooperation. Obama, who will also visit France and the UK before heading back to the U.S., is due to give a public speech in Berlin later following talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

• As the media moves to correct itself for glowing coverage of the Democrat, it's entering a period of shallow analysis. By James Rainey, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer July 24, 2008 It seems like just about everybody has spent the last week beating up on the media for showering too much love on Barack Obama, during what John McCain's camp derides as the Obama World Tour. True, statistics show broadcast networks have devoted more than twice as much airtime in recent weeks to the Democrat than to the Republican.

• McCain: Scenes from a Bethlehem Supermarket
• The Filter: July 24, 2008
• Can Obama Take the 'High Road' to the White House?
• The Kid Stays in the Picture
• Comparing the Candidates, By Design
• Clintonites Still Aren't Sending Much Cash to Obama. Why That's Good News for the Dems.
• Obama Abroad, McCain Looks to Change the Subject

• Obama to Address House Democrats Next Week
• Aboard Obama's Plane to Berlin
• Good-bye, Google Bomb
• Robert Novak Strikes Pedestrian in Downtown D.C.
• McCain and the Safety of Offshore Drilling
• McCain's Interview on CBS
• Plouffe Takes Obama's Case to the Hill
• Obama Lead Nearly 2 to 1 Among Jewish Voters
• At Holocaust Museum, Obama Vows 'Never Again'

• Townhall.com: Obama Aims to Raise European Profile McCain Denies Misstated Timing of Surge Obama Committed to Israeli Security Highway Patrols Struggle with Gas Bills Committee Probes Medically Unfit Truckers Scientists Recover Dinosaur Skeleton Afghan President Hurting Drug War Texas Levees Hold But Waters Rise Fatal MRAP Accidents Prompt Warnings North: Fighting Our Fight Shapiro: Greatness Of "The Dark Knight" Novak: The Soldier Voting Scandal Minimum Wage Goes Up Thursday

• Slip Of The Tongue: Chris Matthews Calls McCain 'Bush'!
• "McCain's Neverending War" now most dugg item in past week
• An imaginary scandal
• Video: McCain '07 Contradicts McCain '08 On Surge Timeline
• What if McCain held a town hall and nobody came?
• Going Purple
• Questions
• That's some good politics right there
• You can't make this stuff up

• Vote Vets Ad: McCain Should Know Better Than To Occupy Iraq
• Poll: Obama Leads By Six, But Majority Says He's The "Riskier" Choice
• Obama Campaign Buys $5 Million Of Olympics Spots
• National Dems Launch New Attack Ad In Oregon Senate Race
• McCain's Pushback On Timing Flub: The Surge Began Before The Surge

• Admin Note: Server Issues
• Riz Khan Discusses Darwin?s Legacy With D?Souza & Dawkins
• Veep Sweepstakes: Who?s In, Who?s Out
• John McCain to be Upstaged at his own Convention?
• McCain Panics in Reaction to Obama?s Rock Star Appeal Overseas?
• Time To Stuff My Snickers Bar In Nike?s Face?
• PBS, Politics, Patriotism, & The Primordial Patriarch

• (CNN) — Has Bobby Jindal ruled out being John McCain's running mate? One day after it was revealed the presumptive Republican presidential candidate was slated to hold a closed-door meeting with the 37-year old governor, Jindal told Fox News there is no way he will fill the bottom half of the GOP presidential ticket.

• Obama promises focus on Middle East peace
• Obama launches day of meetings in Israel
• Iraqi schedule for withdrawal close to Obama's
• Obama Arrives in Baghdad to Discuss Iraq Strategy
• Obama to focus on bolstering Afghanistan's future
• Obama has breakfast with troops; meets Karzai
• Refocusing on the Central Front
• In a Red State, Obama Tackles Issues of National Security
• My Plan for Iraq
• Obama Brings Economic Message to N.Va.
• Obama courts women voters in Fairfax
• Obama proposes bankruptcy changes
• Obama Picks Stadium for Acceptance Speech
• Obama Addresses His Faith
• Obama pledges support for nation?s veterans

• Today show: McCain states that Obama doesn't understand Iraq
• Underestimating
• The LiberalOasis Radio Show: John Hodgman Edition
• Netroots Nation: Middle-Class and Populism
• Netroots Nation: The Future of Enviro Blogging
• Netroots nation - Don Siegelman
• Interview With Senate candidate Mark Begich
• Netroots Nation: Labor Caucus
• At Netroots Nation...
• Iran Politics
• I drill, You drill, we all drill in ANWR

• WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain raised more than $22 million in June, his best fundraising performance of the year, and ended the month with nearly $27 million cash on hand. Campaign manager Rick Davis said Thursday that McCain and the national Republican Party together entered July with about $95 million in the bank. The Republican National Committee, which has been raising money jointly with McCain, collected nearly $26 million in June and had nearly $69 million on hand, officials said.

• WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama's presidential campaign has requested information from Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd as part of its search for a possible vice presidential candidate. The former White House hopeful and Connecticut lawmaker indicated that he's been approached by the campaign. "There's been some inquiries, yeah," Dodd said. "They ask for a lot of stuff. I'll leave it there."

• Blade Network Technologies recently joined the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, a non-profit organization whose stated goal is to cut computer power consumption in half by 2010. The initiative was started last year by Google and Intel, and current leaders also include Dell, EDS, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, Pacific Gas & Electric and World Wildlife Fund. Sponsors include Acer, AMD, Delta Electronics, eBay, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Lite-On, Marvell Semiconductor, NEC, Sun and Supermicro.

• CHICAGO (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama called on two potential running mates and a host of foreign policy experts Wednesday as he pushed his agenda for Iraq and his views for U.S. foreign policy elsewhere. Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., and former Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., were scheduled to join Obama for a national security roundtable at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.

• CINCINNATI (AP)— Republican John McCain is telling the NAACP that if he is elected president, he will expand education opportunities for children in failing schools. McCain is scheduled to address the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation's oldest civil rights organization, on Wednesday.

• WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Connie Stump, a 65-year-old white woman from Lafayette, fell into the core constituency of voters who backed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. And Stump had backed the New York senator -- until March 14, when she heard Clinton's opponent, Barack Obama, give a speech on how he dealt with racism.

• (CNN) – For the second time in two days, John McCain has referred to current events in �Czechoslovakia� � a country that officially ceased to exist in January of 1993. �And I regret some of the recent behavior Russia that has exhibited, and I�ll be glad to talk about that later on including reduction in oil supplies to Czechoslovakia after they agreed with us on a missile defense system, etcetera,� said the presumptive Republican nominee at a New Mexico town hall Tuesday.

• The presidential race is in the doldrums. The "doldrums" is a nautical description for a place where the winds are calm, meaning a sailing ship just sits there. In this instance, I use the term to imply that the presidential election is essentially becalmed, with few winds pushing the presidential election ship in either direction.

• (CNN) — Is Mitt Romney's VP stock rising? John McCain's campaign has remained tight-lipped about its vice presidential vetting process, but the Arizona senator appeared to suggest Monday night his former rival would make a very effective running mate. "I'm appreciative every time I see Mitt on television on my behalf," McCain said at a fundraising event in New Mexico. "He does a better job for me than he did for himself, as a matter of fact."

• But The New Yorker defended the artist and its cover, which illustrates an article titled "The Politics of Fear," as a satirical look at the scare tactics and misinformation being used to derail Obama's campaign. The magazine noted that two serious articles on the candidate's political education and rise in Chicago accompany the piece.

• Former presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney returned Monday to his native Michigan to open a campaign headquarters in Farmington Hills for fellow Republican Sen. John McCain. Born and raised in Michigan, Romney, son of former Michigan Gov. George Romney, beat McCain by 9 points here when he was a candidate. Now he is expected to be a critical figure in Michigan for McCain, who is again returning to the state to campaign Thursday and Friday.

• But had Johnson still been the chief VP talent scout this week, Obama would be facing pressure to justify Fannie Mae's aggressive lobbying of Congress to keep its capitalization requirements low, which contributed to the need for the federal rescue mission. Once again, the Illinois senator seemed guided in his political career by a good-luck leprechaun operating under the mistaken impression that the candidate's name was O'Bama.

• (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama's speech Monday night to the NAACP will mark a historic first: An African-American presidential nominee of a major party will be addressing the nation's oldest civil rights organization. Sen. Barack Obama will emphasize the "responsibility deficit" in a speech to the NAACP on Monday. According to the presumptive Democratic nominee's campaign, Obama will talk about a "responsibility deficit" that extends from Washington to Wall Street, and even to the way Americans raise their children.

• WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama's campaign says a satirical New Yorker magazine cover showing the Democratic presidential candidate dressed as a Muslim and his wife as a terrorist is "tasteless and offensive." The illustration on the issue that hits newsstands Monday, titled "The Politics of Fear" and drawn by Barry Blitt, depicts Barack Obama wearing sandals, robe and a turban and his wife, Michelle, dressed in camouflage, combat boots and an assault rifle strapped over her shoulder � standing in the Oval Office.