Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n
* John Edwards has a provocative new response<\/a> to the media focusing on political trivia over political substance during the campaign: it’s an intentional strategy. Late last week, Edwards told an Iowa audience that the media’s negligence is “not an accident” and that “they want to shut me up” to silence his message about Iraq, healthcare, and poverty. Edwards paraphrased the establishment as saying: “Let’s distract from people who don’t have health care coverage. Let’s distract from people who can’t feed their children…. Let’s talk about this silly frivolous nothing stuff so that America won’t pay attention.”<\/p>\n * NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg continues to say he’s not running for president, but he keeps doing little things to raise eyebrows. In the latest step, Bloomberg registered<\/a> a bunch of domain names, including michaelbloomberg.com, mbloomberg.com, and mike2008.com.<\/p>\n * Bill Richardson announced<\/a> the other day that he would give voters a preview of his Cabinet before they pick the next president. “I would announce my Cabinet before the election. If I’m the nominee, I would tell you who my team would be,” the New Mexico governor told a Service Employees International Union conference in New Hampshire. “It would have independents, Republicans and Democrats. Don’t worry, I won’t overdo the Republicans.”<\/p>\n