Blue Radar

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

• POLL: According to Fox News, Bush's approval rating is at 34%.
• IRAQ Here is exclusive photos of the Blackwater incident in Iraq, as released by ABC News.
• FOREIGN POLICY The US is giving North Korea $25 million in fuel aid, part of a compromise to get Kim Jong IL to dismantle his nuclear reactors.
• JUDICIARY In his new memoir, Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas attacks Democratic Senators that challenged his nomination.
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL The third quarter of 2008 has ended.  CNN reports that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have raised in the neighborhood of $20 million.
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL Hillary Clinton unveiled a proposal called baby bonds.  If she is president, each child will receive $5000 in government bonds, which will grow over time, that will be used after high school for college tuition or to make a down-payment on their first home.  "Every child born in the United States today owes $27,000 on the national debt , why not let them come get $5,000 to grow until their 18?" Clinton asked rhetorically.  The plan will cost roughly $20 billion -- less than the cost of the Iraq war over a two-month period.
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL In an interview with Bloomberg television on Friday night, Bill Clinton questioned whether Barack Obama has the experience to be president.  "I was, in terms of experience, was closer to Senator Obama, I suppose, in 1988 when I came within a day of announcing,” the former president said.
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL In an interview with Beliefnet.com, John McCain said the US Constitution clearly established America as a Christian nation.  "I would probably have to say yes, that the Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation," the Arizona Senator said.
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL At the MTV-Myspace presidential forum, John Edwards reached out to inner cities and warned that the answer in solving crime isn't to spend more money on prisons.  “We cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem. And the idea that we can keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating --pretty soon we're not going to have a young African-American male population in America," Edwards said.  "They're all going to be in prison or dead.  One of the two."
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL Newt Gingrich says that if his supporters raise $30 million he will get into the presidential race.

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.