♦ An L.A. advertising agency has proposed that Obama supporters form their hands into the "SIGN OF PROGRESS," a hand gesture they’ve come up with. Under the unlikely plan, Obamaphiles would make an O-shaped salute to express their commitment to reinventing America, exactly like in that Star Trek episode with the space hippies. We reach, Herbert. [U.S. News]

♦ "I would answer back hard. What do you mean [Obama's] not one of us? It’s John McCain who wears $500 shoes [...] It’s Barack Obama who climbed up the hard way." Sen. Schumer suggests Democrats destroy popular misapprehension that candidate is wealthy Islamic reality TV star. [TPM]

♦ Someone leaked The Atlantic internal e-mails from the Clinton campaign, and now the magazine is going to do a piece on that. [Washington Post]

♦ "Going for the jugular," a new liberal group called Accountable America wants to single out big Republican donors and tell them they’re in big trouble if they give to Swift Boat-esque attack groups. One donor they’re targeting is creepy Florida bigshot Mel Sembler, whose previous career running a horrifically abusive chain of teen rehab centers I wrote about for AlterNet. [New York Times, AlterNet]

♦ MSNBC finds McCain’s new ad full of "dubious claims" about his opponent’s tax plan. [MSNBC]

♦ Says Paul Krugman: The Republicans have found a new rallying cry, "Real men don’t think things through." [New York Times]