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On today's show Rachel will be playing all of Obama's landmark speech in Berlin and then we will compare it to McCain's speech. McCain's wasn't a landmark speech but it was at a landmark. It was at Schmidt's Sausage and Fudge Haus in Columbus, Ohio. There, McCain was literally drowned out by wind chimes. Another grand moment in campaign stagecraft brought to you by the McCain campaign!

Rachel will be talking to David Bender, her political guru and host of Politically Direct, about his reaction to Obama's speech.

Obama's best chance for winning in November might just be John McCain. Or rather, John McCain's campaign, the most poorly managed, embarrassingly outmaneuvered campaigns since Katherine Harris ran for Senate. So on today's show Rachel will be running through the litany of missteps and miscalculations, from the canceled visit to an oil platform during a hurricane to his backward timeline on the surge and the Sunni awakening.

Our first guest is Ilan Goldenberg from the National Security Network.  Later John Amato from Crooks and Liars joins Rachel to talk about CBS
news editing out John McCain's mistake on Iraq -- and also about the Blue America pac's campaign against the rightwing "Freedom's Watch"
pac.  Learn more about Blue America here.

Rachel is back in the saddle today after being carted off to TeeVee Land to fill in for Keith Olbermann yesterday.  So thank you to David Bender for filling in and thank you to all of our callers.  If you want to hear more of David you can catch his show Politically Direct every Sunday on Air America Radio.

On today's show Rachel will be talking to sports writer Dave Zirin about how he became a target of state police surveillance and the unceremonious way in which he found out about it.  And then Paul Rieckhoff will be here discussing his latest story up on Huffington Post right now: the ongoing saga of the Pat Tillman cover-up.