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The Obama camp comes out with what’s probably the cheekiest ad of the cycle.

I have no idea how effective this could be, but it has a good beat and you can dance to it.

John McCain was on the Tonight Show last night for the thirteenth time.

A little bird points out who else has been on the couch with Leno that many times: “Pamela Anderson, Dr. Phil, Larry the Cable Guy, Simon Cowell, Jennifer Love Hewitt.” Schwarzenegger has been on twelve times; Obama has been on once.

• The aforementioned awesome C-SPAN hub. This, my friends, is how it should be done. Keep an eye out for Steve Scully’s old school headset! [C-SPAN]

• A story so superficial it’s not even skin deep. [Politico]

• Trippi is cautiously pessimistic on the unity thing. [Trippi]

• Did I say skin deep? [The Moment]

• Material Girl

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“That’s the real goal here, that people feel good about their experience here in Denver.”

That was Hillary Clinton this morning, at a press conference to re-emphasize, no really, she means it this time, THE PARTY IS UNIFIED. Her voice got a New Hampshire-ish crack a few times, as she talked about the “love and support” she has felt …

This doesn’t exactly help with the age thing, but I find it amusing nonetheless. And he’ll finally have permission to play something at his rallies.

Transcript after the jump.

Denver, CO

For a Democratic convention, there sure are a lot of Republicans here. They seem amused and slightly disgusted by the excitement here, but I suspect they’re just jealous. A GOPer here covering the show last night confessed to be looking for an excuse to vote for Obama. And if McCain chooses Romney, the R said, “I might just …

One thing is for sure, if the Obama folks were worried about the late-night-comedian-jokes-about-their-candidate deficit, the ticket is well-balanced now.

I’ve actually always liked Biden — the Senate has become short on characters in modern times, and Biden has self-consciously made himself one. He’s also genuinely smart and funny and …

A point I haven’t heard made elsewhere:

There’s currently a lot of discussion in the media about the conventions and who’s going to get a bounce from them, Obama or McCain. Is this at all relevant to the question of who is going to win in November?

No, unless you believe that political campaigns have a platonic existence completely

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The McCain campaign’s constant invocation of the candidate’s POW past is weird bordering on irrational: yesterday, Nicolle Wallace used it as evidence that McCain didn’t “cheat” at Saddleback. By a VERY generous interpretation, she could have meant that POWs don’t cheat. Or that once you’ve been a POW, you’ve been through so much you’re …

• It was going to be about politics and his other hobby, yelling at people, but Mark Penn already does that blog. [Gotham Acme]

• Dog owners are racist. Cat owners are just mean. [Yahoo!]

• “McCain’s decision to jam up Obama’s news cycle with a VP pick on August 29th and compress his newsmaking opportunities into a few days could

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McCain doesn’t think Obama’s not a patriot, he just wants America to lose! From a town hall today:

Yesterday, Senator Obama got a little testy on this issue. He said that I am questioning his patriotism. Let me be clear: I am not questioning his patriotism; I am questioning his judgment. Senator Obama has made it clear that he values

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For all you know, I mean. Which is to say: all of the speculation that’s going on today is pointless and kind of embarrassing. When the NYT gets away with running the headline “Obama to name pick soon,” we have reached the point at which the MSM is delivering news with a negative information value. You actually know less about the …

This was hilarious when we came up with it a 3AM after several tequila shots two months ago.