Ich Bin Ein Obama:  Even part of a day's research does not indicate what Barry Goldwater or Nelson Rockefeller -- the presumed Republican frontrunners for the 1964 nomination -- were doing on June 26th, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy addressed the world from the Berlin Wall and declared "Ich Bin Ein Berliner." But in our fifth story on the Countdown: we do know what Senator John McCain was doing today, as Senator Barack Obama addressed a crowd estimated at 200-thousand in that historic city and spoke of tearing down new walls between America and our European allies, so we could all fight terrorism. Mr. McCain was at a German restaurant in Ohio... ordering cream puffs.

Politics and Policy:   Whatever you might think of Barack Obama's overseas trip... It's pretty apparent that John McCain thinks it hugely damaging -- to his efforts to defeat Obama. Our fourth story on the Countdown: Brian Williams' exclusive interview with Obama this morning in Berlin. Which began with some of the endless supply of stuff McCain has thrown against the wall in hopes it would stick... Brian quoting the tough language in the New York Times' account... To wit: Senator John McCain and his campaign have sharply stepped up criticism of Senator Barack Obama as a craven and naïve traveler to the Middle East, who, as McCain put it at a raucous town hall style meeting, quote, 'would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.

ODDBALL: A drunk guy chugs some wite out, and a deer that has six legs.

 Mac & Cheese:  If John McCain starts spitting out these gaffes any faster, they'll have to make him the host of "TV's Greatest Bloopers." Our third story on the Countdown -- until this week, there wasn't any dispute, practically or semantically, as to what the "surge" in Iraq was, or when it began, or who started it. Nor was there any dispute over what was the first major conflict after 9/11 -- our attack on the Taliban in Afghanistan. Now, Senator McCain has insisted everybody else's understanding of the facts of both these things, is wrong. And he, alone, is right.

Worsties...see below.

WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Ben Stein, Bill-O and Duncan Hunter vie for tonight's top honors.

Little Bad Corvette:  Columnist and right-wing pundit Robert Novak has had a curious week... First, The Prince of Darkness is used to float a bogus rumor that Senator John McCain will announce his Vice-Presidential choice this week -- neglecting to notice that Mrs. McCain was out of the country and the required "happy couples" photo-op would've been impossible. Then Novak hits a pedestrian with his car. And in our number one story on the Countdown, Novak says he had no idea, and he kept on driving...  Even though the pedestrian was reportedly splayed across the front half of Novak's convertible. The Soup's Joel McHale will join us presently to discuss the surreal life into which Novak has entered...