Posted today by Glenn Reynolds

• THE L.A. TIMES on the McCain campaign's rapid-response program. I expect the Obama campaign will do the same thing next week during the Republican convention. The McCain campaign hasn't been sending me this stuff, though -- I've had to go to The Corner to find it. Obama campaign folks -- next week, feel free to send your responses directly!
• MATT WELCH ON THE DEMOCRATS' new hawkish foreign policy. "You'd think that such a disconnect between anti-war base and pro-interventionist leadership would cause a few brains to explode, but the only people who seem to be hearing the dissonance in Denver are journalists. . . . This is not necessarily change that war-weary Obama supporters can believe in, and in fact it's much less change than a restoration of the liberal interventionism of Bill Clinton's second term."
• GUSTAV UPDATE: Nagin Discusses Possible Evacuation Plans. If things turn nasty, let's use those school buses this time.
• OKAY, BIDEN STARTED OFF STRONG, but ran long. The Obama folks may want to persuade him that less is more -- but I suspect that his own staffers tried that earlier in this election season. Still, a good performance, though not in Bill Clinton's league by any means. It certainly supports this theory of why Biden was chosen.
• A SHOUTING MATCH among Tennessee delegates in Denver. Michael Silence observes: "Geez. They're sounding like Knox County Republicans." Ouch.
• MORE ON THE ARREST OF THAT ABC NEWS CREW outside of the Brown Palace, from Ronald Coleman.
• MICKEY KAUS says that Obama campaign manager David Plouffe is "whistling past the graveyard" on polling numbers. I don't know if that's right -- I think that everyone, including me, expected Obama to be polling better at this point. The Bush Administration is unpopular, and the Republican Congress -- witness Ted Stevens' primary win -- has been dreadful. Given that, it's surprising that things are in a statistical tie.
• STEPHEN GREEN POSTS a wrapup on Bill Clinton's speech.
• POLITICO: Obama camp blasts National Review writer as "slimy character assassin."
• OBAMA AS Jackie Robinson.
• BILL CLINTON JUST DEMONSTRATED that he's still the best the Democrats have. And -- wonder of wonders -- he kept it short.
• TOM MAGUIRE CRITICIZES McCain's new "Tiny" ad: "Obama is murky enough on Iran without McCain stirring more mud into the mix. . . . The truth ought to be effective enough - when this bubbled up in May even the Times was willing to present McCain's side fairly."
• ANN ALTHOUSE IS liveblogging Clinton's speech and tonight's convention coverage generally. Boy, Bill's sure getting a big ovation at the start.
• OBAMA KEEPS PUSHING BACK ON THE AYERS AD, ensuring that it gets further attention. Though it's called a "smear," aren't smears supposed to be, you know, false? The answer: "If the point is to Islamicize Obama for the ignorant wingnut masses, why include any photos of Ayers? He doesn’t fit the profile of an Islamic terrorist; he fits the profile of what he actually is, a domestic terrorist. They could have easily dirtied this up by not showing his picture or mentioning his name to seed doubt about who Obama’s mystery pal might be. As it is, the narrator specifically refers to the Weather Underground as an 'American terrorist group.' Beyond that, though, the left usually loves to point out that domestic terrorists like abortion clinic bombers are every bit as evil as the jihadist movement that so worries hysterical fearmongers like you and me. Which is true: There aren’t as many of them and they don’t have as many apologists, but a truck bomb is a truck bomb is a truck bomb. Morally, they’re equivalent. Just don’t point out that equivalence when you’re criticizing Barack Obama; that turns it into a smear."
• RASMUSSEN: McCain Gains Another Point. A statistically insignificant move, but certainly not a bounce for Obama.

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