Top Items:
![](/080827/i168.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Obama Secures Historic Nomination — DENVER — Senator Barack Obama, the Hawaiian-born son of a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas, officially became the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party today, capping a meteoric rise from a little-known state senator to the first African-American …
Discussion:
The Swamp, The Seminal, Ben Smith's Blogs, BlueOregon, Wonkette, The Reaction, The Democratic Daily, Philly.com and PrestoPundit
RELATED:
![](/080827/i146.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
CONVENTION MIDTERMS. — We're halfway through this convention. Not all the way through, nor even near it. And I'm inside the convention, not watching it on television and consequently not sure how most Americans are actually experiencing it. But if I were doing the grading now, I'd fail the thing.
![](/img/pml.png)
Two Days Down — Ezra Klein frets: … I'm afraid I concur. With the sole exception of Michelle Obama's superb speech, this convention has been McCain's dream. Yes, there's Biden and the chance that someone - who knows? - might actually attack the worst national security record of any administration in modern times.
![](/img/pml.png)
Schweitzer Steals the Show; Hillary Calls for Unity — Of course Hillary Clinton's speech last night at the Democratic National Convention was emphatic and inspiring - as she urged all her supporters to get behind Barack Obama. But Hillary has made this plea before, and the more important speech at …
Discussion:
BeyondChron
![](/img/pml.png)
Hillary Clinton's Speech Was a Good Start on Her 2012 Run — DENVER-My bottom line reaction to Hillary Clinton's speech Tuesday night: Good, but not quite very good, for Barack Obama in 2008. Even better, if things should turn out like they might, for Hillary Clinton in 2012.
Discussion:
The Corner
![](/img/pml.png)
Bush's 2004 temple — Barack Obama's appearance in Denver won't be the first convention speech framed by Greek columns. — Republicans who are mocking Obama's appearance haven't mentioned it, but George W. Bush accepted his own nomination in 2004 on a set with a similar neoclassical theme …
Discussion:
The Field on the Narcosphere, Fox News, Macsmind, BAGnewsNotes, Hot Air and Pajamas Media
RELATED:
![](/080827/i130.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Pictured: The miniature ‘Greek temple’ from which Barack Obama will launch his final push for the U.S. presidency — Barack Obama's big speech on tomorrow night will be delivered from an elaborate columned platform resembling a miniature Greek temple, it has been revealed.
Discussion:
AMERICAN DIGEST, Sister Toldjah, Commentary, Salon, Blogs of War, Ben Smith's Blogs, Washington Post and TPM Election Central
![](/img/pml.png)
Has He Lost His Mind? — “Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple. — The stage, similar to structures used for rock concerts, has been set up at the 50-yard-line …
Discussion:
Power Line, Ohio Politics, Hotline On Call, Weekly Standard Blog, Hot Air, NO QUARTER, Commentary and Donklephant
![](/080827/i166.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
McCain camp gleefully mocks ‘temple of Obama’ … Republicans, who mock Barack Obama as a self-appointed divine savior, gleefully pounced Thursday on pictures of the set for his big convention speech, which appears to resemble a temple. — The Democratic presidential candidate will accept …
![](/080827/i143.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Columns — On cable they seem really upset that Barack Obama's stage …
Discussion:
Kevin Drum
![](/080827/i138.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors — Asa Eslocker Was Investigating the Role of Lobbyists and Top Donors at the Convention — DENVER—Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures …
Discussion:
Firedoglake, Hot Air, TVNewser, Wake up America, FishBowlDC, Outside The Beltway, Gawker, www.redstate.com, The Daily Whim, Green Mountain Daily, Wonkette and Romenesko
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
McCain Has Made His Pick and Is Set to Tell on Friday — WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain has decided on his running mate, two Republican strategists in contact with Mr. McCain's campaign said Wednesday. He is expected to reveal his choice at a rally at a basketball arena in Dayton, Ohio, at 11 a.m. Friday.
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
From the Fact Check Desk: Did Obama Say Iran Is a ‘Tiny’ Country That 'Doesn't Pose a Serious Threat'? — We, in the media, have given a lot of airtime to the TV ads of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., this week, starring, as they do, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
Discussion:
Marc Ambinder, JustOneMinute, Political Radar, Comments from Left Field, The Huffington Post, Washington Monthly, DownWithTyranny!, Political Byline, PoliticalBase.com Blog, The Anonymous Liberal, Political Machine, Macsmind, MSNBC, The Jed Report, Angry Bear, AMERICAblog News and Riehl World View
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
What McCain Disagrees With — Here's the quote from Obama out …
Discussion:
The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Hot Air, Deadline USA, Washington Post, The Jed Report and Ben Smith's Blogs
![](/img/pml.png)
McCain: Too Reckless to Lead
Discussion:
The Art of the Possible, TPM Election Central, Swampland, Wonk Room and Real Clear Politics
![](/img/pml.png)
Live From Hillary Clinton Delegate Meeting UPDATE — Update [2008-8-27 16:5:44 by Todd Beeton]:Hillary has released her delegates but will not tell them what to do. She told her delegates that she signed her ballot for Senator Obama this morning. — I'm here at the Denver Convention Center …
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
Obama camp blasts National Review writer as “slimy character assassin” — Barack Obama's campaign hasn't advertised this a great deal this week, but the campaign's “Action Wire” has been waging large-scale campaigns against critics. That includes tens of thousands of e-mails …
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
Joe Knows National Security — If George Bush had listened to Joe Biden instead of Donald Rumsfeld, the history of the past seven years would have been very different. We might have prevented 9/11. — On September 10, 2001, Senator Biden, then (as now) chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee …
Discussion:
Think Progress
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
Howard Wolfson Goes To War With MSNBC, Hammers Chris Matthews And Keith Olbermann — On Fox News just now, Howard Wolfson unleashed a broad attack on MSNBC and its top on-air personalities, slamming the network's coverage of Bill and Hillary, hitting back at Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann …
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
McCain Decision Soon — I'm told McCain's inner circle is having a final meeting on the vice presidential issue. It's not entirely clear whether it is to go through the choices again and reach a final decision, or whether it is for McCain to inform his inner circle of his choice.
![](/080827/i155.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Rachel Maddow, MSNBC's Newest Left Hand — In her black-rimmed glasses, black T-shirt, jeans and orange sneakers, green iPod wires dangling from her ears, Rachel Maddow cuts an unassuming figure at odds with her growing celebrity. — “I know I don't look like everybody else on television …
![](/img/pml.png)
Obama Camp Responds to GOP Slams on Greek-Columned Stage for Obama Speech — Lots of slings and arrows headed Obama's way for the Greek set for his speech tomorrow night. — “Tomorrow you're going to see Obama come down from Olympus to be among us mere mortals,” said former Maryland …
Discussion:
Hot Air
![](/img/pml.png)
Storm could swamp GOP convention — Planners of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul held emergency conversations Wednesday about what to do if a tropical storm continues on its track as a potential Category 3 hurricane threatening New Orleans. — Gustav's projected path suggests …