Blue Radar

As I post each morning, here are some of the political stories thatmight not be worthy of their own posts, but are nonetheless newsworthy:

• Donald Trump has donated $10,000 to Arnold Schwarzenegger to help the California Governor pay off his 2006 campaign debts.
• Alberto Gonzales was heckled by students as he attended his 25-year Harvard Law School reunion.
• Hundreds of protesters lined the streets before President Bush gave a commencement speech at Kendell Miami-Dade College in Florida.  A number of people held up pro-impeachment signs.  Bush spoke mostly about immigration issues.
• John McCain promises if he is elected president he would appoint a Democrat to his cabinet.  (This should not be considered as some amazing offer.  There have been many bipartisan cabinets in the past.  Even Clinton's Defense Secretary was a Republican.)
• Let's put the spotlight on Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel.  Someone put together a 6-minute montage of all his answers.  Here is the Gravel video.  He definitely thinks outside the box.  But if you were a Republican strategist, you could use a lot of those quotes in campaign commercials.
• In George Tenet's new book At the Center of the Storm, he warned President Bush about anarchy in Iraq if the U.S. invaded.
• Advocates of copyright reform are pressing hard to make sure every televised presidential debate is made available for everyone to download.  This started as back and forth rants between blog owners, such as myself, and this morning the story made it into the New York Times.
• John McCain and Mitt Romney are at each other's throats.  Earlier this week, Romney downplayed the importance of spending a lot of money to catch Osama bin Laden.  McCain shot back: "It takes a degree of naivete to think he’s [bin Laden] not an element in the struggle against radical Islam."
• Obama has scored a big catch in the area of political consulting.  The Obama Campaign announced this weekend the hiring of Jim Margolis, one of the top Democratic consultants.

If we left anything out, feel free to add any new stories in the commentbox.

Comments

[granny]

I enthusiastically recommend reading:

"Secret Order By Gonzales Delegated Extraordinary Powers To Aides"
By Murray Waas, National Journal
© National Journal Group Inc.
Monday, April 30, 2007

I got the link for this off The Huffington Post.

Ariana Huffington also makes good points in her article about George Tenet