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The years of hard work have finally paid off for Barack Obama.  Following speeches by both Former President Bill Clinton and newly minted Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden, both the Democrats and the Obama’s got what they came for.  And that was reconciliation between the Obama’s and the Clinton’s and the most historic presidential nomination to date.

Seemingly upstaging the opportunity for the individual delegates to have their moment in the limelight, Senator Clinton called an end to the roll call vote and declared "Let’s declare together with one voice right here, right now, that Barack Obama is our candidate and he will be our president."

It’s unanimous: Democrats nominate Obama by acclamation

SENATOR CAPS HISTORIC NIGHT WITH SURPRISE APPEARANCE

By Dan Balz and Anne E. Kornblut
Washington Post

Article Launched: 08/28/2008 01:30:13 AM PDT

DENVER – Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois completed an improbable and historic journey Wednesday when he was nominated by acclamation as the Democratic candidate for president, becoming the first African-American to lead a major political party into a general-election campaign.

Obama, who just eight years ago attended his first Democratic National Convention and who four years later shot to national prominence with an electrifying keynote address at the gathering in Boston, was given a final symbolic boost Wednesday by Sen. Hillary Clinton, who moved from the convention floor to suspend the roll call of the states and formalize her former rival’s nomination by acclamation.

The gesture of conciliation brought to a conclusion the closest and hardest-fought nomination battle Democrats have waged in the modern era of presidential politics, pitting two historic candidacies in a contest that divided the party and left bitter feelings lingering among Clinton loyalists.

But after days of nervous speculation about how the long and often contentious competition would end in Denver, the nomination-by-acclamation set off a joyous scene on the convention floor, as delegates danced to the strains of "Love Train" and then broke out in chants of "Yes, we can! Yes, we can!"

Hours later, the convention confirmed Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., as the party’s vice-presidential nominee, and as he finished his acceptance speech, Obama made a surprise visit to the stage to praise

his new partner; his wife, Michelle; his former rival, Clinton; and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, who had delivered a powerful speech on behalf of Obama earlier in the night.

"I think the convention’s gone pretty well so far, don’t you think?" Obama said. He cited his wife’s speech Monday, and then, referring to Hillary Clinton’s speech Tuesday, said, "If I’m not mistaken, Hillary Clinton rocked the house last night."

In his acceptance speech, Biden, the fiery chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, cast himself as a champion of working-class families – a key target group Obama has struggled to win over – and laid out a critique of Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican nominee.

"I am here for everyone I grew up with in Scranton and Wilmington," he said. "I am here for the cops and firefighters, the teachers and assembly-line workers – the folks whose lives are the very measure of whether the American dream endures."

Bill Clinton’s speech

Biden was preceded on the podium by Bill Clinton, whose conduct during the nominating contest prompted considerable criticism from Democrats backing Obama and who has complained in private that he was unfairly attacked.

But the former president, like his wife Tuesday, delivered a rousing speech that made a strong argument that the election of Obama is critical to the country’s future.

"Everything I’ve learned in eight years as president and the work I’ve done since, in America and across the globe, has convinced me that Barack Obama is the man for this job," Clinton said.

Clinton drew a thunderous and sustained welcome from delegates, who cheered and waved American flags and chanted "Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill," as he sought to quiet them. "I am here first to support Barack Obama," he said, setting off another round of applause.

Clinton acknowledged that, "in the end, my candidate didn’t win" the nomination. But then, citing his wife’s speech Tuesday, he said: "Hillary told us in no uncertain terms that she’ll do everything she can to elect Barack Obama. That makes two of us." That set off a fresh round of applause that grew louder when he added: "Actually, that makes 18 million of us, because, like Hillary, I want all of you who supported her to vote for Barack Obama in November."

Obama touched down in Denver just as nominating speeches were getting under way and headed to his hotel to continue working on the acceptance speech he will deliver tonight.

Roll call of states

Wednesday, Clinton met with her delegates and, over shouts of "No, no," told them they were free to vote any way they wished. "I’m not telling you what to do," she said to some applause. But she added: "I signed my ballot this morning for Senator Obama."

The roll call of the states, which was the subject of lengthy negotiations between the Obama and Clinton campaigns, began shortly before 4 p.m. Clinton wanted her name put in nomination in recognition of her historic candidacy, and many of her delegates were demanding the opportunity to record their support for her.

But early in the roll call it became clear many of them already had shifted to Obama and the spectacle had been choreographed to produce a party united behind him.

The first example of the shift to Obama came when Arkansas, the home state of Bill Clinton and a state she carried overwhelmingly during the primaries, cast most of its 47 votes for him.

Other Clinton states followed suit.

Suddenly, the cameras zeroed in on Clinton within a throng of people on the convention floor moving toward the stanchion marking the New York delegation. A cheer went up as her image appeared on the big screens in the arena.

Then, Clinton did the honors for the man who had denied her dream of becoming the first woman ever nominated to lead a major party. "With the goal of unity," she said, "let’s declare together in one voice, right here, right now, that Barack Obama is our candidate and he will be our president."

Clinton then moved that the convention suspend the rules and the continuation of the roll call vote and asked that Obama be nominated by acclamation. Her motion triggered another thunderous round of applause and cheers from delegates.

[Thanks, Mercury News]

As we wind down the worst presidency in the history of this once great country it behooves us to reflect upon the man and the myth that is George W. Bush.

And so, I present to you, a daily ‘Bushism’ or two…..

"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun."
-G.W. Bush

"It’s one thing about insurance, that’s a Washington term."
-G.W. Bush

"Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it."
-G.W. Bush

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Well, it looks like that old adulterer William Jefferson Clinton still doesn’t know when to keep his mouth shut.  Speaking in front of a group of former world leaders, Billy waxed on with some almost incomprehensible story about Candidate X versus Candidate Y.  I said almost incomprehensible because it’s obvious that the mysterious Mr. X is Barack and Mr. Y is McCain.  Although the gist of the story was a little vague….

Yes Bill, we know you’re bitter.  Yes Bill, we know that it’s probably too late for the two of you to start over.  But good grief man, why don’t you keep your bitterness and bile to yourself until we can get our official Candidate chosen? 

Or is this some ‘clever’ way of saying that you are going to vote for McCain because your bigoted self would rather see another four years of the Bush-like policies rather than voting along party lines?  Does your wife know about this?  Or is she too going to revert to her Republican roots?

Clinton’s ‘Candidate X’ Analogy Stirs Questions About His Obama Support

by Stephen Clark
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Hours before former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took center stage Tuesday night in Denver to offer words of healing for the Democratic Party, her husband was detonating what could be interpreted as another blast at presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

Speaking at a forum of ex-world leaders less than a mile from the site of the Democratic National Convention, Bill Clinton drew an analogy that had many wondering whether the former president had made peace with the idea of an Obama candidacy.

“Suppose for example you’re a voter and you have candidate X and you have candidate Y,” Clinton said. “Candidate X agrees with you on everything but you don’t think that person can deliver on anything. Candidate Y disagrees with you on half the issues but you believe that on the other half, the candidate will be able to deliver.”

“This is the kind of question that I predict — and this heas nothing to do with what’s going on now — but I am just saying if you look at five, 10, 15 years from now, you may actually see this delivery issue become a serious issue in Democratic debates because it is so hard to figure out how to turn good intentions into real changes in the lives of the people we represent.”

Whether Clinton, who for 20 years has been the star of the Democratic Party, intended the analogy to represent a futuristic look at presidential politics, its relevance to the current candidacies of Republican John McCain and Obama were unmistakable.

The former president is scheduled to put the capstone on the Hillary-Bill public endorsement of Obama during a convention speech Wednesday night.

Tensions were simmering on Sunday about the speech, in which the former president was said to have preferred to address domestic issues, but the theme of Wednesday night’s proceedings is foreign policy.

Obama said Monday he’d spoken to Clinton about the speech, saying he told Clinton he could talk about anything he likes.

“Bill Clinton knows a little bit about trying to yank the economy out of the doldrums,” Obama said. “It wouldn’t make sense for me to want to edit his remarks.”

Obama said Monday that the Clintons “couldn’t have been more clear” in their support for his candidacy.

Playing second fiddle to the new Democratic order doesn’t mean the former president can’t influence an Obama administration.

“Bill Clinton’s place in the hearts of Democrats is very secure. He rescued us from the wilderness” said former California Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat. “We had been wandering there for 40 years, having lost three presidential elections.

“Now we’re turning a page. Barack Obama is going to be our next president and I expect Bill Clinton to be campaigning for him.”

Davis added that Clinton could serve as an ambassador or envoy for an Obama administration the way he has for President Bush.

FOX News political analyst Michael Steele said he believes Clinton will use his Wednesday night speech to try and restore his image, especially with black voters, who were part of his base of support.

“I think this is about Bill, not Barack,” Steele said, adding that Clinton can and will restore his image.

“He still has a role to play,” he added. “He will assert that role in any number of ways. We’ll see one of those ways when he gives a speech at the convention.”

Devine said he expects Bill Clinton to be supportive, adding that one role Clinton could perform is that of attack dog on the Republicans.

“If anything I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Clinton give a very strong speech in support of Obama,” he said.

[Thanks, Faux Fox News]

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The Obama campaign will start to put more emphasis on the things which concern the real, average voter.  Citing the common impression that John McCain is severely out of touch with what you and I lose sleep over, David Plouffe has stated that one of the themes you will hear a lot of this week will be the fundamental instability of the economy.

What can we expect of a man that thinks $5M is the low-end cut-off for rich and who has no idea how many homes he owns.  Is $4.25 a gallon too expensive for him?  He probably hasn’t filled the tank on a car in years.  Does he still even have a drivers license?

The economy isn’t the only important thing in this election, but it sure does rank among the top two tying for importance with the ill advised, illegal war in Iraq.  Do we really want another four years of Blackwater, Exxon Mobile, Halliburton, and other special interest groups not being held responsible while making Trillions of dollars ain Iraq while we lose our homes to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?

The Obama campaign to sing more loudly about the economy

DENVER — What was suggested by the new Barack Obama ad featuring a Sam Cooke soundtrack , Obama’s campaign manager made official today — the economy, and the fears so many folks have about where it’s headed, is about to become a louder theme song for the almost-official Democratic presidential nominee.

David Plouffe, who oversaw Obama’s path to the nomination, told reporters today just a few hours before the Democratic National Convention began that based on his reading of poll data, "There’s a real sense of [John McCain] being out of touch" with the economic problems plaguing the nation.

Plouffe kept stressing that McCain keeps stressing that America’s economic fundamentals are sound.

The Obama campaign begs to differ and sees an opening. Said Plouffe: "We are going to drive a truck through that this week and during the rest of the campaign."

That will be music to the ears of Democrats who have complained that Obama has not spotlighted the economy consistently or passionately enough.

Still, Plouffe was asked why, if the issue is headed for an even brighter spotlight, Bill Clinton reportedly is complaining that he’s being assigned a different topic when he takes to the convention podium Wednesday night. The ex-president, after all, is the past master of pressing the Democratic economic.

Plouffe, demonstrating that maybe he should consider running for office himself, skirted the question.

Obama, on the campaign trail today in the Midwest, didn’t. He said that when he chatted with Clinton by phone on Thursday. “I said, ‘Mr. President, you can say whatever you like.’ "

Obama added: “Bill Clinton is a unique figure in our politics … It wouldn’t make sense to me to try and edit his remarks.”

– Don Frederick

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As we wind down the worst presidency in the history of this once great country it behooves us to reflect upon the man and the myth that is George W. Bush.

And so, I present to you, a daily ‘Bushism’ or two…..

“If affirmative action means what I just described, what I’m for, then I’m for it."
-G.W. Bush

“Quotas are bad for America. It’s not the way America is all about.”
-G.W. Bush

“Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is—I’m not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I’m the president.”
-G.W. Bush

I can’t think of anything smart or pithy to say that could possibly add to the following story.  So here it is:

Open letter to the RIAA on Pandora

p2pnet news view Radio | Music:- Online radio station Pandora, “is on the brink of turning out the lights,” wrote p2pnet veteran entertainment and music lawyer Fred Wilhelms recently.

Now, “Levi Weaver (right) is my hero,” posts drfunk49.

He’s referring to Weaver’s response to Wilhelm’s post.

On his MySpace page, Weaver says in his Open Letter To Pandora »»»

I heard they might be shutting you down. I read an article this morning that the RIAA was pressuring you guys, financially, to the point that you won’t be able to continue to stay in existence.

I’ve always been better at writing with a bit of vitriol, so this letter is shorter than the next one will be, but I just wanted to say, before it’s too late, thank you. Thanks for making my music available to people. And not just any people, but people who would like it. You hired a crack team of music-analysts to figure out how to do that, and I reaped the benefits, by way of a few CD sales, and a few new fans.

You didn’t charge me every time you introduced me to someone new, you just did it. You introduced me to some great acts that I really liked too. You have the right idea, and maybe you were just ahead of your time. Hopefully the beast will die soon, and we can all get back to making music and promoting music that we love.

Thank you for your help, and I wish there was something I could do to help. You have my undying respect and support, and I hope you can weather this evil storm.

-Levi Weaver

In his open letter to the RIAA, Weaver declares »»»

Congratulations. You’ve taken one more step in choking the industry that pays your bills. You are the proverbial Commodus, reveling in your power, not realizing that you, hand in hand with Clear Channel were the cause of the end of Pax Romana.

You’ll be the last one standing, you know, in your old graveyard of an industry. When you look around and see that despite all your efforts to “save” the music industry have totally destroyed it, I hope, nay wish, that I am in the room to see your bankruptcy papers signed, and celebrate by popping a bottle of the cheapest beer I can find, just to emphasize that your reign of Cognac and Cristal has come to a bitter and beautiful end.

You can continue to be “The Enforcer” behind all things overproduced and under-felt, sticking up for all the Kevin Federlines and 50 Cents of the world, clinging to the carcass of 1992 with all your disgusting might, but a change is coming, and has come. As one of the artists you claim to represent, I’d like to give a firm, resounding, “No Thanks.” I didn’t ask you to take any of the steps you’ve taken to try to kill my career in the name of “representing” me.

Pandora has been a tool of such great help that a value cannot be put on it. And your complete and total incapability to recognize anything that was not a source of income in your college professor’s “Industry” will kill you. It will kill you, and to that I say that the day of your death cannot come soon enough.

Even if you last for another 20 years, your relevance has been fading for quite some time. You’re dying even now, even as you celebrate your victory over another rebel website, another single mother, another college student, another evil 13-year old. You’re dying. And right under your nose, in the echoes of your death rattle, a new music industry is growing. An industry without a name, chaotic, beautiful, bordering on anarchic. You have no control over art, over music, over fandom. So you take your top-40 radio and have fun with Leona Lewis and the Jonas Brothers for as long as it lasts.

We the people will be creating our own system. We’ll be in tiny little bars and back porches and dirty basements, and eventually the mainstream will catch on, and turn their backs on you and your over-marketed bilge. (they are already turning their backs; if you would look up for one second, you would see a lot of back pockets that are already out of your reach)

And when they do, when the exodus is complete, and your stadiums are empty, and your radio stations abandoned, When your buildings are foreclosed upon, your castles in ruin, your moat filled with piss and spray paint, rancid and festering, I’d like to be among the first to say you will not be invited to have any part in this brave new world. When your world is in total ruin, I hope the music that we listen to, that reminds us of the beauty amidst the crap, the music that tells us something more than “dance dance dance”, the music that was forged in the fires of discontent and destruction, and speaks of hope to the heart of those in disarray…

…I hope you never get to hear one more note.

Not one note.

-Levi Weaver
info(at)leviweaver(dot)com

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As we wind down the worst presidency in the history of this once great country it behooves us to reflect upon the man and the myth that is George W. Bush.

And so, I present to you, a daily ‘Bushism’ or two…..

“It’s going to require numerous IRA agents."—On Gore’s tax plan
-G.W. Bush

“I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.”
-G.W. Bush

“Our priorities is our faith.”
-G.W. Bush

The Justice Department, currently mismanaged by Attorney General Michael Mukasey, is finalizing plans that would allow the F.B.I. to open an investigation on any American, conduct covert surveillance, pry into private records and take other types of  investigative steps “without any basis for suspicion.”

Essentially, Still President Bush is hoping that his tool, Mukasey, will turn into law all of the overly aggressive and illegal steps that it has already allowed since 9/11.  The Justice Department plans would only codify the enhanced powers that the FBI has already been given by this corrupt administration.

New Guidelines Would Give F.B.I. Broader Powers

By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: August 20, 2008

WASHINGTON — A Justice Department plan would loosen restrictions on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to allow agents to open a national security or criminal investigation against someone without any clear basis for suspicion, Democratic lawmakers briefed on the details said Wednesday.

The plan, which could be made public next month, has already generated intense interest and speculation. Little is known about its precise language, but civil liberties advocates say they fear it could give the government even broader license to open terrorism investigations.

Congressional staff members got a glimpse of some of the details in closed briefings this month, and four Democratic senators told Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey in a letter on Wednesday that they were troubled by what they heard.

The senators said the new guidelines would allow the F.B.I. to open an investigation of an American, conduct surveillance, pry into private records and take other investigative steps “without any basis for suspicion.” The plan “might permit an innocent American to be subjected to such intrusive surveillance based in part on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, or on protected First Amendment activities,” the letter said. It was signed by Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.

As the end of the Bush administration nears, the White House has been seeking to formalize in law and regulation some of the aggressive counterterrorism steps it has already taken in practice since the Sept. 11 attacks.

Congress overhauled the federal wiretapping law in July, for instance, and President Bush issued an executive order this month ratifying new roles for intelligence agencies. Other pending changes would also authorize greater sharing of intelligence information with the local police, a major push in the last seven years.

The Justice Department is already expecting criticism over the F.B.I. guidelines. In an effort to pre-empt critics, Mr. Mukasey gave a speech last week in Portland, Ore., describing the unfinished plan as an effort to “integrate more completely and harmonize the standards that apply to the F.B.I.’s activities.” Differing standards, he said, have caused confusion for field agents.

Mr. Mukasey emphasized that the F.B.I. would still need a “valid purpose” for an investigation, and that it could not be “simply based on somebody’s race, religion, or exercise of First Amendment rights.”

Rather than expanding government power, he said, “this document clarifies the rules by which the F.B.I. conducts its intelligence mission.”

In 2002, John Ashcroft, then the attorney general, allowed F.B.I. agents to visit public sites like mosques or monitor Web sites in the course of national security investigations. The next year, Mr. Bush issued guidelines allowing officials to use ethnicity or race in “narrow” circumstances to detect a terrorist threat.

The Democratic senators said the draft plan appeared to allow the F.B.I. to go even further in collecting information on Americans connected to “foreign intelligence” without any factual predicate. They also said there appeared to be few constraints on how the information would be shared with other agencies.

Michael German, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union and a former F.B.I. agent, said the plan appeared to open the door still further to the use of data-mining profiles in tracking terrorism.

“This seems to be based on the idea that the government can take a bunch of data and create a profile that can be used to identify future bad guys,” he said. “But that has not been demonstrated to be true anywhere else.”

The Justice Department said Wednesday that in light of requests from members of Congress for more information, Mr. Mukasey would agree not to sign the new guidelines before a Sept. 17 Congressional hearing.

[Thanks, NY Times]

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As we wind down the worst presidency in the history of this once great country it behooves us to reflect upon the man and the myth that is George W. Bush.

And so, I present to you, a daily ‘Bushism’ or two…..

“I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.”
-G.W. Bush

“I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.”
-G.W. Bush

“I would have my secretary of treasury be in touch with the financial centers, not only here but at home.”
-G.W. Bush

It’s taken quite a while, but Hillary is finally getting around to doing the right thing both for her party and for Obama. 

Starting Thursday, Hillary will campaign for her arch rival starting in South Florida.  Florida and Michigan both suffered because of premature elec-ulation, holding their primaries prior to the February 5th cut-off stipulated by the Democratic National Party.

Floridians in both Broward and Palm Beach counties will have the opportunity to attend Obama rallies featuring Hillary.

Clinton To Stump For Obama In Florida

Posted by Scott Conroy

Hillary Clinton will campaign for her former Democratic rival Barack Obama in South Florida on Thursday, the Obama campaign announced. The New York senator will make public appearances in Palm Beach and Broward Counties.

In Palm Beach, Clinton "will host a rally focused on why Barack Obama is the only choice for voters who care about issues important to women in this election," according to the Obama campaign’s press release.

Clinton will be the headline speaker next Tuesday night at the Democratic convention in Denver. The date of her speech falls on the certification of the 88th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which mandated women’s suffrage.

[Thanks, CBS News]

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I took advantage of my right to vote yesterday.  The right to vote is one of the few things that Still President Bush and his radical Christian Right haven’t yet been able to deny me.  At least not yet.  He still has 153 days in which to deny me that most basic and fundamental right.

As we wind down the worst presidency in the history of this once great country it behooves us to reflect upon the man and the myth that is George W. Bush.

And so, I present to you, a daily ‘Bushism’ or two…..

“I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans.”
-G.W. Bush

“It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.”
-G.W. Bush

“One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.”
-G.W. Bush

Once everyone determined that Barack wasn’t going to hamstring his campaign by signing up an ‘old-guard’ Hillary Clinton as his Vice Presidential candidate, speculation has been rampant regarding just who would be chosen.

Many names have been bantered about over the course of the last two months, but Obama and his campaign machine have remained quite close-lipped about the final choice.

Apparently the weeks of speculation are about to end. Faux Fox News seems to thing that signs are pointing to an announcement by the the end of the week and the New York Times agrees.

Both news agencies report the same five names as being the top candidates for the coveted democratic 2nd spot on the ballot.  Evan Bayh of Indiana, Tim Kaine of Virginia and Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware consistently get listed first with my favorite contender, Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas.

Obama Ready to Announce Running Mate This Week

By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY

Published: August 18, 2008

WASHINGTON — Senator Barack Obama has all but settled on his choice for a running mate and set an elaborate rollout plan for his decision, beginning with an early morning alert to supporters, perhaps as soon as Wednesday morning, aides said.

Mr. Obama’s deliberations remain remarkably closely held. Aides said perhaps a half-dozen advisers were involved in the final discussions in an effort to enforce a command that Mr. Obama issued to staff members: that his decision not leak out until supporters are notified.

Mr. Obama had not notified his choice — or any of those not selected — of his decision as of late Monday, advisers said. Going into the final days, Mr. Obama was said to be focused mainly on three candidates: Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware.

Some Democrats said they still hoped that he would choose Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, or Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, who has been under steady consideration by Mr. Obama’s campaign.

By all indications, Mr. Obama is likely to choose someone relatively safe and avoid taking a chance with a game-changing selection. A similar strategic choice now faces Mr. Obama’s Republican rival, Senator John McCain of Arizona, who has been under pressure from some Republicans to make a more daring choice.

Mr. Obama’s advisers said he all but reached his decision while on vacation in Hawaii. They said it was the end of what proved to be an unexpectedly intense process, condensed because he did not want to start actively vetting potential running mates before Mrs. Clinton quit the race in June.

By contrast, Mr. McCain, who had wrapped up the Republican nomination months earlier, began his process in late spring.

That gave Mr. Obama’s team of lawyers less time to review candidates, and several Democrats said it appeared that the list of candidates who were deeply vetted was limited to about a half-dozen people. (Campaigns typically check the background of candidates who are not necessarily in play, as a way of gaining favor with various constituencies or to keep the other party off balance.)

The team of advance workers and aides involved in planning the rollout — timed to galvanize Democratic voters as Mr. Obama heads to Denver next week for the party convention — have not been told who Mr. Obama will be selecting.

If all goes according to plan, the announcement will be made with text and e-mail messages to supporters early in the morning, in time to capture coverage on the morning news shows and take advantage of a full day’s news cycle.

[Thanks, NY Times]