On the eve of tomorrow night’s Republican presidential candidate debate on Fox News (9 pm ET) where the big question is who – if anyone – will stand out, here’s a rundown of some of the latest headlines on the candidates – and potential candidates:
Man, oh man. I had to watch this twice just to make sure I heard him correctly. A Truther who thinks the WTC building 7 was blown up on 9-11 has asked Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards what he was going to do about the ‘controversy’ they’ve created over what happened to WTC building 7. The conspiracy from the Truthers is that the Bush admin had it blown up. Edwards’ answer to the Truther? He’s going to look into it. He actually gets the guy to leave his name and other information so he can get back with him on what he finds out.
Pundits, politicos, and bloggers are all buzzing about the French presidential election on Sunday which saw Nicolas Sarkozy, the conservative Frenchman, handily defeat his Socialist opponent Ségolène Royal. Sarko will be handed the reigns of power in about a week. Still up in the air: Whether or not Sarko will have a conservative government alongside him to help him in his plans to reform France. Those elections will be held in early June.
In the coming days, you are likely to be reading a lot of stories about several lawsuits that have been filed against the NYPD on behalf of some 1,800 protestors who attended anti-Bush ‘festivities’ around the RNC convention in the summer of 2004. A federal judge on Friday ordered the NYPD to release some 600 pages of ‘secret’ documents related to its preparation for the protests that took place at the 2004 GOP convention.
MSNBC has the transcript to last night’s debate posted. It looks a lot smoother than it actually was.
