Discover GOP Opprobrium

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Today's edition of quick hits:

* As of this minute, we don't know who Barack Obama's running mate is.

* Russia doesn't appear to be in any kind of rush in Georgia.

* Did the McCains embellish their Mother Teresa adoption story? Maybe.

* It must be terribly unpleasant to be Evan Bayh's neighbors today.

* Spencer Ackerman has a good item on Obama's response today to developments in Iraq.

* Media Matters launched "County Fair" today, a media blog "featuring news links and progressive media criticism from around the web, along with commentary from Eric Boehlert and Jamison Foser."

* How do you know a right-wing ad is way too over the top? When Fox News declines to run it. (Except, as it turns out, Fox News ended up running the ad it had rejected.)

* I'm probably a big geek, but I really like the video fact-checking clips the Obama campaign's been doing.

* Obama's "lost" law review article turned out to be no big deal.

* Krugman: "So the Obama campaign is going all out on the issue of McCain's multiple houses. Isn't that kind of stupid? Yes, it is -- and it was also necessary."

* McCain probably didn't expect Robin Leach's support, and probably wishes he hadn't received it.

* Oliver Willis: "Dave Mudcat Saunders could be the greatest political operative since Machiavelli, no Democrat should be working with a guy who sleeps with the confederate flag on his bed."

* And finally, it's not nearly as bad as the house flap, but it's not encouraging that John McCain doesn't know what kind of car he drives.