Hillary Clinton's name is likely to be placed in nomination at the Democratic convention -- a highly symbolic move, designed to appease her supporters, though if it leads to a vote, her showing would be poorer than in the primaries, which might enrage them all over again. Unless so many Obama delegates changed their minds that she won, of course... This will not happen. [Marc Ambinder] UPDATE: Now confirmed. More from that Tomasky guy.
The press agrees that the Georgia crisis has made it a good week for John McCain -- who has, a little oddly, sent his own delegation to the region, alongside the one sent by the actual president. But Josh Marshall warns: "The people that are pulling McCain's strings are the people who want to push us into a new Cold War with the Russians -- and ironically and a bit improbably with the Chinese too." [ThinkProgress]
Could Obama's pursuit of votes in traditionally red states create a situation where, in seeking to win by a landslide, he loses by a whisker? [The Page]
Colin Powell denies he'll be at the Democratic convention, whatever Weekly Standard editor William Kristol has been claiming, and issues the withering comment of the week: "I do not have time to waste on Bill Kristol's musings." [ABC News]
A Clear Channel talk radio host discovers evidence that Obama is not really an American citizen! His sources: "a guy" and "some people." [Media Matters]
Jerome Corsi, author of the new anti-Obama biography and Harvard political science graduate, spent the early part of the decade making internet postings in which he claimed Hillary Clinton was a lesbian and that Muslims worship Satan. He doesn't think this damages his credibility. [Politico]
The media should boycott the party conventions, says Jack Shafer, because nothing real ever actually happens at them. [Slate]
