For those of you who missed Michelle Obama's speech last night, the best part came at the end, when Barack appeared on the TV screen and his children, Malia and Sasha, said hi to their daddy. The White House hasn't seen kids this cute since Kennedy.

The best part was how Sasha helped clean up Obama's gaffe--he mistakenly said he was in St. Louis, but when she asked, "Daddy, what city are you in?" he was able to correct himself and tell her, "I'm in Kansas City, sweetie."

Usually, reading long comment threads on major news sites is like wading into quicksand trying to find a nickel. Just get a new nickel. Looking for treasure among the noise is just too tiring.

But buried in the muck of this long Washington Post thread is the following succinct pearl, more like a Franklin than a nickel:

"One Spouse.
One House.
Obama."

There's some family values for you.

Forget being the first black president. Obama has already made history by creating the first leak-proof campaign.

As if to prove the point--or spike the football and do the worm in the endzone--Obama pulled the biggest hoodwink yet when the media fell for a phony Obama/Bayh bumper sticker and trumpeted the story, only to be undone when it was revealed that the actual vice president would be Joe Biden.

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Barack Obama wants all us cool kids to know who his running mate will be before all them grown-ups do. That's why his campaign manager, David Plouffe, sent out a email today saying regular folks can be the first to know. All they have to do is txt "VP" to: 62262 and a message will come down from high. OMG!

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The Georgian government has just declared "a state of war" with Russia. As I write this, 1,600 have been killed after Russian forces pushed into Georgia. This a real political and humanitarian crisis.

It also needs to be the subject of a Barack Obama attack ad on John McCain. Remember McCain flubbing Vladimir Putin's role repeatedly in speeches, even calling him "the President of Germany"?

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The latest issue of the New Yorker has a controversial cover that Barack Obama's campaign -- and even a few Republicans -- call "tasteless." The image is intended to satirize right-wing attacks on Obama, portraying he and his wife as flag-burning terrorists that are, at least in Michelle Obama's case, heavily armed.

Defenders of the cover say it's parody. Opponents say it feeds right into a vicious and fact-free smear narrative.

Our own James Norton, who knows something about parody, has a new piece at Flak Magazine identifying other potential satirical covers for future New Yorker issues.

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Dude, Barack, I know you're working on becoming the world’s most adored man among twenty-sumptins. But this is uncalled for. I wake up in the morning and get an email from your campaign manager, David Plouffe, informing of this very important news:

Bradley -- I wanted you to be the first to hear the news… Barack has made it clear that this is your convention, not his.

My convention?!

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CP alum Paul Demko poses this question over at Mindy, citing a 21-state poll of Latino voters.

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Sunday's data from Rasmussen Political Reports offers excellent news for Barack Obama. More >>

Word on the street is that the big Obama Rally Tuesday night drew in 17,000 folks to Xcel Energy Center. While that’s a huge number, it’s still around 3,500 people shy of the record set by the goddess of country pop, Shania Twain.More >>