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:

• In the early morning hours of Monday, Iraqi Prime Minister called for an emergency summit of all the country's senior leaders to keep the government from falling apart.  The summit will take place either on Tuesday or Wednesday.
• Over the weekend, a bomb in southern Iraq killed the governor and police chief of the Ad-Diwaniyah Province, located 100 miles south of Baghdad.
  
• One day after turning down an invitation of lunch with President Bush because of an apparent sore throat, the French First Lady was spotted relaxing with two friends in a nearby town.
• A new British parliamentary report finds that the troop surge in Iraq is "likely to fail."
• The number of licensed gun owners in the state of Massachusetts declined by a quarter over the last six years.
• After weeks of negotiation, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg will give 9/11 families access to ground zero during the sixth anniversary of the attacks on America.
• Tommy Thompson has dropped out of the Republican race for president.
• Following his third place finish in Ames, Sam Brownback says he will remain in the presidential race.
• After Mitt Romney's straw poll victory in Iowa over the weekend, the trash-talking has begun.  “I think if they thought they could have won, they’d have been here,"Romney said of Giuliani, McCain and Thompson -- all three of which chose not to participate in the poll.  "Thereason they weren’t here wasn’t an indication of their strength inIowa."

If we left something out, it's because we either wrote about ityesterday or are scheduled to do so in an individual post later today. Otherwise, feel free to add any stories in the commentbox.

Comments

[granny]

In these brief pieces, where short quotes are put here and there : The Romney piece here is a perfect example - couldn't the quote be highlighted somehow...Italic? or gray bold face?

I think the Romney piece is an excellent example because if you pay attention to the actual words, rather than the sense he's trying to imply, the two statements are contradictory.

I think it's important to highlight the gobbledy-gook these people are spouting off.

I don't think it's asking too much of the people who want to lead this country to be able to speak accurately.

[Chief Editor: Todd]

Granny, wow, I didn't catch that until just now! You're right, those statements were completely contradictory.

What Romney really said was that by some candidates not participating in the Iowa straw poll, they have a lot of strength in the state. Of course, he meant entirely the opposite!

Great! Just what we need, another President with careless verbal inaccuracies.