What's the word?

I hear Barack Obama has a huge pet-owner problem.

Update [2008-7-8 21:40:11 by Josh Orton]:

• #!@%-it, we'll do it live!
• Mark Begich, one of our Road to 60 candidates, goes on the air against the corrupt Tubes Ted Stevens:

What's going on tonight?

What's going on tonight?

What's going on this Saturday night?

A few things in my RSS reader:

• Hertzberg, back in 2001, on the too-late Jesse Helms

• Mark Leibovich (he wrote that stinging Chris Matthews profile) examines one of John McCain's greatest electoral challangers: the teleprompter.

• Rumor is that Obama might give a speech at the same Berlin location where Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall."

• Maybe we should calm down about Obama's recent late-term abortion statements.

• Russ on FISA:
  

  
  

Enjoy.

• Sarah Lane: We Need to Fight for Those Who Fight for Us.


• Zeitz for Congress addresses another kind of independence in NJ-04: Declaring Energy Independence Day.


• Project Vote asks Who Gets to Vote? State's Struggle to Register Veterans, Felons and Minorities.


• I Can Think of 62,000 Reasons Why John Stossel is Wrong! (johnny venom)


• Pentagon Inspects KBR, but Don't Hold Your Breath says ItsNeverOver.


• Mark Lotwis reflects on The Civil Rights Act - 44 Years Later.


• Court Upholds LAPD's Policy of Not Asking Immigration Status. (The Opportunity Agenda)


• Bobswern has the rundown in 2008's Grand Masters of GOP Dirty Tricks.


• Bored now exposes The Republican in the Donkey Suit.


• DLCC: Allow Us to Reintroduce Ourselves.


• Making America great with KCRW's Left Right and Center July 4th edition.


• A little enlightenment from RDemocrat in Americans for Ryan: Independence from Exxon Eddie!

How's your fourth going? Consider this an open thread...

Update [2008-7-4 19:1:7 by Josh Orton]: As you bbq and watch fireworks with friends and family, be sure to keep the radar up for the latest zombie lie - that Obama changed his Iraq position. He didn't. Josh Marshall walks through the lost distinction between strategy and tactics in more detail over at TPM. But here's the short version: Obama's strategy is to end the war in Iraq and bring our troops home, but he'll listen to commanders' advice about how. That's it. McCain's campaign has been (successfully) pitching reporters on the idea that Obama's strategy on Iraq has somehow shifted fundamentally.

It hasn't. Obama wants to end the war; McCain has no plan to.

Rinse, repeat.

I just drove a couple hours West from NYC. In Pennsylvania somewhere. Not really sure where, though.

Where are you going for the holiday?

Have at it...

Update [2008-7-3 0:46:43 by Todd Beeton]:Heh.