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.
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I cannot fathom which is worse, Eyebrow as Gov here in VA, or VP.
I guess that's better than if you called him Queen Kaine...
I never heard of him, which is good news.
Has Obama said when we can expect the dove to appear over his choice of a running mate?
What the hell is Arod thinking!
Head fake.
I just heard Dick Morris on H&C say he thinks McCain should pick Kay Bailey Hutchinson or Condoleeza Rice as his running mate because that will give him the “over 40” female vote.
What is this guy smoking?
You want me on that wall... you NEED me on that wall...
LOL. If Obama manages to get nominated (in spite of Hillary’s best efforts), McCain will already have the women-over-40 vote in the bag. And there’s a lot in that bag.
McCain is going to win big.
Except for Mills Godwin (in the past 40 years).
He looks like a drooling idiot from an insane asylum. How did he ever get to be governor?
This morning the rumors have taken on some urgency:
http://www.politickermd.com/wallyedgemd/3025/source-kaine-pulls-out-08-unity-fundraiser
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UPDATE: Confirmed due to “scheduling problems.”
A source says that Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine is no longer attending tomorrow night’s ‘08 Unity Fundraiser for the State Democratic Central Committee at Iguana Catina in Baltimore.
Mention of Kaine at the event has been removed from the party’s website, and Kaine was not identified with the other notable out-of-state guests Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty in a promotional e-mail.
Speculation that Kaine will be Barack Obama’s choice for vice president is at a crescendo. On the day his attendance at the fundraiser was announced two and a half weeks ago, the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza ranked Kaine number one on his list of potential picks, and media speculation has been climbing ever since.
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