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By CJP | July 18, 2008
 Good morning, Janes! This has been one long week, but don't start your "summer Friday" schedule without a little prep. Sunscreen, check. Carpool buddy, check. White paper on carbon capture and sequestration for an easy beach read, check. Everything you need to know to be the smartest girls under the sun, check. Here's your Morning Jane...
Top Domestic Story: Campaign 2008
- Barack Obama's foreign policy team is more like a "mini-State Department," with 300 wonks, split into teams by global regions and topics, writing white papers, talking points and op-eds. His top aide says, "It is unwieldy, no question...But an administration is unwieldy, too." [New York Time]
- McCain is having a rough go with the press lately. Today he takes friendly fire from The Washington Times, which notes that McCain has struggled with positions recently because of poor staff prep and political posturing. "It seems the Straight Talk Express should stop and ask for directions."
- Bill Clinton said he is ready, willing and waiting for the call to campaign for Barack Obama. "He's got a lot of things to do between now and the convention, of which this is simply one, so I'll do whatever I'm asked to do, whenever I can do it." [AP]
Top International Story: The number of Iranian-linked road-side bombs in Iraq has fallen 70 percent in the last three months. Experts give credit to Iraqi military efforts to crack down on militias in the country, but caution, ""I think we should proceed from the assumption that (the militias') underlying motives haven't changed." [USA Today]
Al Gore issued a challenge yesterday for the U.S. to move to renewable energy for all electricity in the next 10 years. "We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that's got to change." [San Francisco Chronicle]
A week after declining to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, the EPA released a report that global warming will pose "substantial" threats to humans, and that it's "very likely more people will die" as a result. One author said that children will notice a substantial difference in the weather by the time they're middle-aged. "They're going to look back and think back about how nice the summers used to be." [Washington Post]
The list of Starbuck's closures is out. Cross your fingers and click HERE to see if yours is on it.
Please no-- Heidi Montag and Meghan McCain (John McCain's daughter) had lunch together yesterday. This could actually affect CJP's vote. [E! Online]
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July 18th, 2008 at 5:11 am
On the reports that Michelle Obama is going home to raise the children and no longer campaign, I say…..
Iron my shirt! What’s for dinner? Oh no! Not that again! wink, wink…..another headache?
Obama Momma