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Kaine 'Very, Very High' On VP Shortlist
politico.com ^ | July 28, 2008 | BEN SMITH & AMIE PARNES

Posted on 07/28/2008 4:34:18 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

As Senator Barack Obama turns to the choice of his running mate, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine has emerged as one of the campaign’s potential finalists, sources familiar with conversations in Richmond and in Chicago said.

Kaine, an early Obama supporter whose biography nicely dovetails with the Illinois senator’s, "ranks very, very high on the short list," said a source who has spoken recently to senior Obama aides about Kaine.

Kaine "is getting a critical examination," the source said.

The 50-year-old Virginia governor is among a handful of logical, and much-discussed, choices to join Obama on the campaign trail. Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, former Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn and Delaware Senator Joe Biden are among others frequently mentioned.

Obama and his top advisers met Monday afternoon at the Washington, D.C., law office of Eric Holder, one of the leaders of his vice presidential vetting team.

Kaine's position as governor of a state the Obama campaign hopes to make a key battleground and his background as a Spanish-speaking former Catholic missionary and civil rights lawyer make him a strong potential pick.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


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To: null and void
Kaine slew Able?

You stole my pun!

21 posted on 07/28/2008 5:08:22 PM PDT by meyer (...by any means necessary.)
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To: null and void

Jeeze louise. I can’t believe names we have in this election. kain, mccain, and hussain. So, someone named their kid “tim kain”?. I wonder how many little kids called him “tin can”.

Hey, who wants to play “kick the can”?


22 posted on 07/28/2008 5:15:47 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: mylife
A good doctor should be able to fix that.

I mean a REALLY good doctor!

Not her doctor ........



23 posted on 07/28/2008 5:16:44 PM PDT by Eaker (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. (H.)
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To: SE Mom
Leonid Brezhnev comes to mind...

Or Crunchy


24 posted on 07/28/2008 5:16:45 PM PDT by null and void (Barack Obama - International Man of Mystery...)
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To: meyer

Only because I was able...


25 posted on 07/28/2008 5:17:55 PM PDT by null and void (Barack Obama - International Man of Mystery...)
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To: Eaker

Jaysus!!


26 posted on 07/28/2008 5:18:20 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Lizavetta

He does!! Great description.


27 posted on 07/28/2008 5:18:24 PM PDT by BlueAngel
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Besides his eyebrows, can someone tell us more about Kaine? Is he a Commie like Obama? Or merely a liberal socialist, like a lot of Dims?


28 posted on 07/28/2008 5:21:46 PM PDT by FFranco
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To: mylife
Something seems a little "light in the loafers" about him.

Maybe it's just a particularly bad photo.

Cheers!

29 posted on 07/28/2008 5:30:16 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: FFranco
Besides his eyebrows, can someone tell us more about Kaine?

He's in Hillary!™'s way.

All else is irrelevant.

30 posted on 07/28/2008 5:30:39 PM PDT by null and void (Barack Obama - International Man of Mystery...)
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To: mylife
Separated at birth?


31 posted on 07/28/2008 5:33:14 PM PDT by null and void (Barack Obama - International Man of Mystery...)
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To: grey_whiskers

Most dems are light in the loafers L0L


32 posted on 07/28/2008 5:34:58 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: null and void

Shep looks like he lost his puppy!


33 posted on 07/28/2008 5:35:45 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: FFranco
Besides his eyebrows, can someone tell us more about Kaine? Is he a Commie like Obama? Or merely a liberal socialist, like a lot of Dims?

Well, in Virginia we call him King Kaine. Does that answer your question?

34 posted on 07/28/2008 5:35:47 PM PDT by 11Bush
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To: mylife

He’s just sad that Chrissy got the leg tingle...


35 posted on 07/28/2008 5:37:25 PM PDT by null and void (Barack Obama - International Man of Mystery...)
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To: null and void

Poor Shep.


36 posted on 07/28/2008 5:40:11 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Perfect choice:

An inexperienced first-term senator with 2 years of experience brings on as VP nominee a first-term governor with less than 2 years of experience.

To Barack Obama (borrowing from an old New Jersey commercial): “You and Tim Kaine... Perfect together!”


37 posted on 07/28/2008 5:40:43 PM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Right state... right office... wrong office-holder... wrong party.

Oh, but for one dumb word (and a complicit and hyper-biased media).

38 posted on 07/28/2008 5:40:54 PM PDT by Teacher317 (Thank you Dith Pran for showing us what Communism brings)
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To: Eaker

Holy Smoke, what is it!? A cross between a Terminator T-800 and The Material Girl’s great grandmother, maybe?


39 posted on 07/28/2008 5:45:33 PM PDT by quark
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To: NativeNewYorker

Wouldn’t a clown help greatly to elect a conservative in 4 years? McCain isn’t going to help us there.


40 posted on 07/28/2008 5:50:51 PM PDT by Reeses (Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
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