Tuesday, April 8, 2008

RADIO week 3/28-4/2 NPR

1. White conservatives in Wisconsin and Ohio are trying to think on the positive side of Obama becoming president. They say "he is only half black."
2. In Michigan democratic voters believed there was no competition in the democratic primary so they voted in the republican primary. Now they are giving Michigan a re-vote for their democratic primary and these democrats who chose to vote in the republican primary are now excluded from the re-vote on June 3rd.
3. If Michigan gets this re-vote is it fair to all the other states. There is a set way the states get to vote and Michigan getting to do a re-vote later in the election process is not fair. 
4. Clinton's papers finally came out, her schedules from when she was a first lady. It was shown that she pushed NAPTA in meetings and things like that. In the end NAPTA was very bad for our economy, tons of overseas jobs were lost.
5. There were no meetings shown on her schedule for FMLA, which she claims takes a lot of credit in doing. Also there was only one meeting for children's health insurance which is something else she has taken a lot of credit for.
6. Obalma's speech talking about his race could be seen as a good or bad thing. It is bad to use the race card, but his speech gave him a lot of news coverage. All the political news was about him, Clinton was left in the dust for a bit.
7. McCain celebrated the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war with a week long trip to Iraq, Jordon and Isrial. 
8. Out of all of the presidential candidates McCain deffinately knows the most about foreign policy and about what is going on in Iraq. Except he gave everyone doubt in his knowledge when he confused the sunni and the shiet at a press confrence in Jordon. 
9. Clinton and Obalma have gone from talking about each other to talking about McCain. Clinton says since he sits on the sidelines for economic issues, then if he becomes president and the phone rings at 3 o'clock in the morning for an economic issue, he would just let it ring.
10. Many of the republican in the congress are retiring or there have been a few deaths, so there is a chance that these seats may turn over to democrats.