Gallup daily tracking poll: Obama 45%, McCain 44%
In his first extended interview since his wife crashed out of the Democratic nomination race, Bill Clinton, travelling in Rwanda, offers decidedly limited praise for Barack Obama (he's "a good politician," he says) and warns: "What we Democrats can't afford to do, even as we support Senator Obama, is try to build one America on the cheap... [we can't tell ourselves] 'I voted across the racial divide; I have no obligations to do something in my community or around the world.' In other words, if he wins... we've still got a lot of problems. We've got to heave-to here. We've got to show up." [Washington Post]
The McCain camp is now officially war with the New York Times, after two negative editorials and the dust-up over its "rejection" of a comment piece by the candidate. (The paper claims it just wanted him to rewrite it less vaguely.) The paper is "hysterical", the campaign says, and is behaving like a blogger "sitting at home in his mother's basement and ranting into the ether between games of Dungeons & Dragons." That should go down well with bloggers -- like, say, Meghan McCain. [AP]
"Bright, clean, conservative but not angry, and Jewish": Team McCain is taking a very close look at Eric Cantor, the highest-rankingonly Jewish Republican in Congressthe House of Representatives, as a potential vice-presidential candidate, and a way to win much-needed Jewish votes in Florida. [Politico]
After a week in which the McCain campaign accused Obama of playing the "race card" by suggesting that he didn't look like "those other presidents on the dollar bills", a DailyKos blogger digs up a McCain ad from June which mocks the idea of... Obama appearing on a dollar bill. [Daily Kos]
The Ron Paul Space Science Group plans to design "a space vehicle capable of carrying a satellite into space. This satellite, called the Ron Paul Satellite, will be a solar powered transmitter, capable of broadcasting Ron Paul Revolution: A Manifesto, in audio format, to the entire universe!" Strange how hard it is to tell parody from seriousness when Ron Paul is involved. [Ron Paul Rocket Project, via Wonkette]
Hillary Clinton fights Barack Obama once again -- this time in the battle of the children's books. Obama wins again. [Boston Globe]
