Wonkette

• Why would Obama rather surf in beachy Hawaii and be President than live in Nairobi with his brother in a subprime lean-to? [Marc Ambinder]
• Embarrassing reggaeton musical act “Daddy Yankee” endorses McCain, at one of Cindy’s 11 high schools. [The Caucus]
• Joe Biden admired notable racist Strom Thurmond for his mysterious and fashionable hair. [Ben Smith]
• A bunch of losers Photoshop a button for Obama because they are too sad not to. [Huffington Post]
• “Barack Obama” is a fictional character created by Aaron Sorkin and he is played by Martin Sheen. [Ezra Klein]
• Dick Cheney is having his own Convention! In Azerbaijan, with Foreigns! [Matthew Yglesias]
• Joe Biden told his wealthy lobbyist son Hunter Biden to cut it out with the wealth and the lobbying. [Fresh Intelligence]

* Reliable Source: Laura Bush dropped two sizes after a year of private fitness classes; she works out three times a week at 8 a.m. [WP]
* Rush & Molloy: Bloomberg, David Remnick, Bob Schieffer, Lesley Stahl, Kurt Andersen, Richard Holbrooke, and Ron Silver attended Joe Klein’s New York book party. . . Actor Dennis Hopper defends Bush. [NYDN]
* Page Six: Cheney was accidentally shot on a hunting trip in the late ’90s. . . Emails from Aaron Sorkin to call girl are revealed in her new book. [NYP]

* Inside the Beltway: Record number of lawmakers and reporters will descend on the Conservative Members Retreat today; bloggers are invited for the first time. . . Entrepreneur hawks “George Allen for President Classic Thong.” [WT]
* Page Six: Bernard-Henri Levy jokes that Barack Obama could win in ‘08 “if he’s smart enough not to hire Bob Shrum to handle his campaign.” [NYP]
* Rush & Molloy: Memoir of former prostitute Dimitra Ekmektsis includes drugged times with Aaron Sorkin. [NYDN]