Midday Open Thread

• The Obama campaign released the following statement today:
  

  Senator Obama understands that the challenges facing women and families in the 21st century are very different than the challenges of the past, but John McCain seems stuck in an outdated view of American families. Senator Obama believes every woman deserves equal pay for equal work. He has a plan to help working women by guaranteeing seven paid sick days to the 22 million who currently have none, and by providing child tax credits, additional after-school programs, and a tax cut for 71 million working women and eliminating capital gains taxes for 8.7 million women who own small businesses or startups.

  Meanwhile, McCain is still trying to remember if he supports Viagra or birth control pills.

• The Chairman of the Colorado Republican Party has a secret plan for when the Democratic National Convention comes to his state:

  We’ve got a lot of things we’re talking about and putting into motion, but that’s not something I want to telegraph right now…We’re kicking around a lot of things – nothing inappropriate. We’re going to make sure the voice of the loyal opposition is heard that week.

• Oil prices climb to another record high while the Dow drops below 11,000 for the first time in two years.
• Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV), knowing that the GOP is going to get their clock cleaned in November, tries to look at the bright side:

  I’m of the position that we really need to clean house in this Republican Party. And I think the next couple of election cycles are going to do that.

  One assumes that he isn’t including himself in the clean-up.

• Chris Bowers’ tackles the question(s), “Do blogs suck? Do serious people suck?”
• A University of Arizona law professor concludes that John McCain is not a natural born citizen, and so does not meet that Constitutional requirement to be president. That ranks at the bottom of my list of reasons why John McCain shouldn’t be president.
• The launch of the next generation of the iPhone isn’t going too well.
• Mark Blumenthal from pollster.com has a good column up (here and here) on addign Bob Barr and Ralph Nader to the polls, and warns against over-reading their infuence in summer. - DemFromCT
• Netroots Nation will feature the return of Pub Quiz.  Start forming your teams now!  -Adam B

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