Blue Radar

As we post each morning, here are the political buzz stories headlining the newspapers and blogs before you head to work today:

• IRAQ The British Ministry of Defence is paying an Iraqi family two million pounds to a paralyzed Iraqi teenager after he was accidentally shot in Basra by a British soldier.
• ECONOMY Food prices are rising faster than any other time in 17 years.
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL Over the weekend, Congressman Geoff Davis (R-IN) used the term "boy" to describe Barack Obama.  I'm going to tell you something: That boy's finger does not need to beon the button," Davis said at a GOP fundraiser. "He could not make a decision in thatsimulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country."  Yesterday he apologized for that remark.
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL North Carolina Democrats (PPP): Obama - 54%, Clinton - 34%.
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL Indiana Democrats (SurveyUSA): Clinton - 55%, Clinton - 39%.
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL Democrats nationwide (Gallup): Obama - 50%, Clinton - 40%.
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL Michigan voters (EPIC-MRA): Obama - 43%, McCain - 41%.  McCain - 46%, Clinton - 37%.

More posts throughout the day.

Comments

[Angelight]

Obama tried albeit somewhat unsuccessfully to answer a question in a heartfelt way that like Negros of slavery time who also turned to Religion & Music due to oppression and hard times and that small town America has very little to look forward to and so too turned to religion and hunting as a normal outlet and sometimes blamed their plight on immigrants! This excercise in "honest" judgment has been blown out of all proportions and taken up by Hillary & McCain and some in the Media to exploit for political gain, albeit with dishonesty and distorted statements to demean Obama for being honest. We have to asks ourselves as Americans "would we rather have politicians that lie to us or ones that tell us the truth no matter what?" Hillary's current assertion that her father taught her to "shoot ducks" behind the cottage that her grandfather built on Lake Winona as a little girl smells alot like "Bosnian Sniper Fire!" And, now we have Bill Clinton going around with his current False take on "bitterness" as another example of another "lying politician", excuse my blatantness...with the following...

B. Clinton "[s]ays at campaign railly in Corydon, Indiana that throughout seven stops in North Carolina, 'Everywhere I go there are all these people with signs, saying I’m not bitter - I’m not bitter.' ABC’s Sarah Amos says his comments were well-received but 'not entirely accurate.' For instance, she says there were no signs at his rallies saying 'I’m not bitter,' as he claimed."
(Mark Halpern, The Page) -- This political couple has No Shame!

However, in light of the current fire storm and questionning and psychoanalyzing about the "bitterness" of small town America, maybe Obama has done us some good and we can finally bring or shed some light on just how bitter (or not) we really are and better yet -- the "Root Cause"!