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:

• WORLD 10 peacekeepers in Darfur were killed over the weekend.
• HEALTH CARE Over the weekend, a 12-year-old boy gave the Democrats' weekly radio address, and took exception with the President's health care platform.  "Please don't veto this bill. A bunch of children in America really need this," 12-year-old Graeme Frost said in part of his address, referring to the children's health care bill that Bush is threatening to veto.
• 2008 ELECTIONS/SENATE The National Republican Senatorial Committee believes that Democrat Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey is vulnerable, and will try to take his Senate seat in 2008.
• 2008 ELECTIONS/PRESIDENTIAL Bill Richardson's campaign has announced that their candidate raised $5.2 million in the third quarter, lower than the $7 million he collected in donations last quarter.
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL More than 350,000 people have donated to the Obama Campaign, shattering every primary record.
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL In one of the sharpest critiques of the Clinton family yet, on Sunday Barack Obama challenged the Bush-Clinton hierarchical dynasties.  "They want to make the argument that Senator Clinton is just an extension of the Bill Clinton presidency," Obama said in anAssociated Press interview. "They've been the dominantpolitical family in the Democratic Party for the last 20 years now. Soit's not surprising that they want to focus on their longevity."
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL Time Magazine's Joe Klein wrote on Sunday that it might not matter whether or not Hillary Clinton has a warm personality.  "Whether we like it or not--and as I've written umpteen timesbefore--the Presidency is different from any other office," Klein wrote. "It is farmore personal. The President lives in our homes for four years and thepublic makes its decision, at least in part, on which politician itwants hanging around the kitchen table. In that regard, I thinkClinton's seriousness and practicality--the sense that she knows whatshe's doing--will work to her advantage in the months to come....andmay even be enough to overcome the perennial TV-age desire for a warmor charming candidate."
• 2008 ELECTIONS/PRESIDENTIAL North Carolina Democrats (EU): Clinton - 37%, Obama - 18%, Edwards - 18%.

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]

On the posting: "group of powerful conservative leaders met in Salt Lake City and decided that if Rudolph Giuliani gets the nomination, they will support a third party candidate."

... The defining adjective omitted in the description "powerful conservatives" is CHRISTIAN. A group of powerful Christian conservatives...

An important distinction.

The word "Christian" is what defines the controlling function of this meeting.

And the focus appears to have been the issue of pro-choice, not Guiliani per se.

The link article (at Salon.com) posts: - That the meeting was to consider supporting a third party candidate if a pro-choice nominee "like Guiliani" wins the Republican nomination

"The conclusion was that if there is a pro-abortion nominee they will consider working with a third party," said the person, who spoke to Salon on the condition of anonymity."

This is an important distinction!