By Tommy Christopher Larry Johnson, over at No Quarter, has worked himself into a lather over the new paint job on Barack Obama's campaign plane.

The one shining moment that keeps political rats going through this summer is waiting, salivating for a chance to find out who Barack Obama and John McCain are picking for their running mates.
They have been playing this game, mostly McCain's side, of waiting until the last possible moment to name a running mate. In fact, McCain's camp has gone so far as to say that no matter what, they will wait until Obama picks to make their own pick. Even a 5th grader would think that was childish.
hat is reprehensible, if true. We will find out if what I was suggesting was true or a scam."

It may only be July, and Election Day may still be 104 days away, but we’ve reached the point at which the McCain campaign is even willing to attack Barack Obama’s remembrance of the Nazi Holocaust.
Speaking today at Yad Vashem, Obama said, “Let our children come here and know this history so they can add their voices to proclaim ‘never again.’ And may we remember those who perished, not only as victims but also as individuals who hoped and loved and dreamed like us and who have become symbols of the human spirit.”
quence of ethnic strife — which we haven’t done,” Obama said in an interview with The Associated Press.