Political bits

(TPM) Will anyone in the media look past the name calling to notice that the Bush administration and McCain have moved to Obama's "naive" foreign policy positions?

(Politico) Phil Gramm who said we're all economic "whiners" is still advising McCain on economics, he's just not allowed out in public.

(Politico) The McCain campaign goes big negative as Obama leaves for Europe. (Remember "politics stops at the water's edge" from the McCain folks during his Columbia trip?)

(WSJblog) Carly Fiorina decides to publicize and exploit a meeting with Clinton supporters because there's no way McCain would meet their demands, but they might as well make hay from these (stupid, stupid) Clinton supporters.

(Ambinder) Clinton aides buy the web address HRC2012.

(Time) As McCain criticizes Social Security, he still happily accepts the checks (because he and his wife are just scraping by....)

(SFGate) The George Bush sewage plant did make it on the SF ballot.

And, Pardon me for this, but for a candidacy based in part on a half decade in a Vietnam torture prison, the McCain campaign sure does seem to whine an awful lot.