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 campaigns potential finalists, sources familiar with conversations in Richmond and in Chicago said.
Kaine, an early Obama supporter whose biography nicely dovetails with the Illinois senators, "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.
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You stole my pun!
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”?
I mean a REALLY good doctor!
Not her doctor ........
Or Crunchy
Only because I was able...
Jaysus!!
He does!! Great description.
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?
Maybe it's just a particularly bad photo.
Cheers!
He's in Hillary!'s way.
All else is irrelevant.
Most dems are light in the loafers L0L
Shep looks like he lost his puppy!
Well, in Virginia we call him King Kaine. Does that answer your question?
He’s just sad that Chrissy got the leg tingle...
Poor Shep.
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!”
Oh, but for one dumb word (and a complicit and hyper-biased media).
Holy Smoke, what is it!? A cross between a Terminator T-800 and The Material Girl’s great grandmother, maybe?
Wouldn’t a clown help greatly to elect a conservative in 4 years? McCain isn’t going to help us there.
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