Aide's mistake reveals Obama's VP pick early (EVAN BAYH)

CNN (link dead) ^ | 8/18/08 | n/a

[Norman Bates]

AIDE'S MISTAKE REVEALS OBAMA'S VP PICK EARLY (PULLED FROM CNN)

It's Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana. Original link is dead. This is a screenshot courtesy of roses of sharon.

[LikeLight]

O-bye!

[ltc8k6]

Good point!

[oneamericanvoice]

Why go to New Mexico tomorrow to make the announcement, though (more of Richardson’s territory)? Maybe he's going to pander for the Indian vote. Oops, almost forgot. He's Indian now that a Crow family adopted him, so I don't think it is considered pandering.

[Norman Bates]

So this isn’t a hoax?

[HAL9000]

Or how about - Bayh-Bayh Obama

[frankjr]

Typos and font does look different than other articles on their Election Center 2008 articles.

[230FMJ]

I believe that Evan is the son of Birch Bayh, one of the most rabid anti-Second Amendment Senators of all time. Great choice Barry!

[FlingWingFlyer]

So does this ticket make the DemocRATik Party the 75% “white” party? Where’s Howie! We need some clarification here! AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!

[airborne]

Technical glitch = DUmmie libtard pushes the wrong button.

And this guy wants us to trust him with the nuclear football?

[Norman Bates]

I didn’t notice all the typos until someone pointed it out. However if the font is different something MAY be funny.

[C210N]

Or how about - Bayh-Bayh Obama

McGlothlin is always agreeing with that...

Bayh... Bayh!

[DCPatriot]

More like a rope-a-dope.

[DCPatriot]

More like a rope-a-dope.

[PGalt]

:) Good thinkin’

[Jess Kitting]

This is the kind of thing that isn’t supposed to happen.

Obama can't control his aides, can't control the Clintons, can't control his pastor, can't control his wife. . .

What can he control?

[LegalEagle61]

I live in Indiana, and Bayh sucks big time. Never liked him and wish he’d move to Iraq. LOL

[ConservativeMan55]

Look at the URL

.vp

CNN ends all their other stories with

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/18/news-media-objective-in-presidential-race/

I’ve never seen a dot toward the end of a URL like that

[stockstrader]

What can he control?

That's easy.

The MSM!!!!

[Hi Heels]

Watching CNN the other night while they were reviewing the Saddlebrook non-debate, and across the Teleprompter at the bottom came this “Obama campaign says they will reveal the VP choice via email and text messages. Look for an email with subject line (yada yada). No other campaign has ever done this before. Obama is running the most high tech campaign ever.” I nearly hurled. Oh, yeah, nobody ever thought about email before. He’s the first! Ain’t he the most brilliant ever? ooOOOoooo. So high tech. And CNN? No way are they biased to print that crap. /s

[DemforBush]

You are correct, Evan is Birch’s son.

[OldEagle]

"Nothing in politics is an accident!! Nothing! I say it’s Richardson."

I was holding him as Hillary's pick.

[Sir Hailstone]

Bayh Obama!

[Question_Assumptions]

Wow. I just read Sarah Palin’s profile on wikipedia. It made my knees weak...

Yes, she looks great but is unfortunately in the middle of this silly mess which probably won't amount to much in the long term but will probably scare the McCain people off. I think our best hope is that she weathers this and is ready for 2012 because I'm hoping that McCain wins and then doesn't run for re-election, leaving a spot open on the ticket for her or Jindal.

[arasina]

Evan Bayh was separated at birth from his twin/clone, Al Gore. Went on to marry a freckly blonde cheerleader type woman who could be Tipper’s sister. Boring, monotone voice (let’s hear you say “risky scheme” like Al, Evan) and a liberal wolf in centrist sheep clothing.

[Enchante]

Let’s put Obambi and his interns in charge of the “nuclear football” ...... yeah, right!!!

[Vigilanteman]

Evan is a Son of a Birch?

[elizabetty]

This seems like a real head fake.

[230FMJ]

Yes, as I recall, Birch was one of the prime movers of the Gun Control Act of 1968, which required the registration of all ammunition sold, even 22 shorts. Great law! /s

[pharmamom]

Eye roll. How do YOU spell dull? B-A-Y-H works for me. Well, as I said in my blog, it’s one way to get rid of the freakin’ Bayhs (who have infected this state for the past four decades). Maybe they’ll take Dan Burton off our hands, too.

[lucyblue]

"I live in Indiana, and Bayh sucks big time. Never liked him..."

Dittos

[ConservativeMan55]

As a web page designer.. most people don’t add random dots.

You have dot.com

.org

or .net

but .vp?

Everytime you add a page it normally goes like that

/evanbayh

/evanbayhvppage1

and so on...

I’m starting to think this is a fake

They would not end a story with .VP

[daylilly]

When Birch Bayh was defeated by Dan Quayle, the campaign saying was Bye, Bye, Bayh.
You’re on to something here.

[Pharmboy]

Contrast Bayh’s White male and boringness with the charm and charisma of an exciting female candidate!!!!

Omigod...is McCain picking Paris Hilton as veep?

[frankjr]

At least I think it looks like a slightly different font.

Here is another article form Election Center.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/07/31/obama-mccain-spar-over-celeb-ad/

I looked for matching words like “campaign” and the “g”s look diff (i.e. flat vs. curved bottom). But I am not expert...and my eyesight sucks.

[ConservativeMan55]

The URL looks fishy

[kristinn]

Dunno.

Here's more from Shots on the House:

Could it be a hoax? Could CNN have dropped the story from their website because it was bad reporting and it could not be confirmed? Was Barack Obama’s aide simply sending a test e-mail to a few people and sent it to the wrong mailing list? Either way, here’s what a CNN story that has since been pulled said about Barack’s VP pick:

The entire screenshot has been uploaded online, and this whole thing was caught by Matt from The ACT Blog who showed me the screenshot before CNN either caught their mistake or did a favor for the Obama campaign (as if their coverage wasn’t favorable enough). I’m also hearing rumors the screenshot was doctored (Matt got it from someone else). If I was a betting man right now though, I’d say Bayh, but maybe it was a mistake. We’ll see.

[TitansAFC]

I said exciting.

[Froggie]

This guy is as swarmy as Edwards... and we saw how well he worked out!!! Romney would tear up Bayh is a vp debate!!

[PhilDragoo]

[frankjr]

Here’s one they ended with “vp.picks”:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/18/vp.picks/

But I still think it looks fake.

[Rome2000]

These are the geniuses who would occupy the White House.

If this is true the muslim Hussein is dead in the water anyway. the SHRILLARY! supporters won't take this lying down and will crucify him.

[Bailee]

Agree I think we were all anticipating a head fake to judge the reaction. However if this it accurate can you imagine HRH BHO with national secrets.

[stockstrader]

Evan is a Son of a Birch?

If "W" was a 'shrub',,,,does this make Bayh a "twig"?

[Sudetenland]

Sarah Palin booooring, he should pick Ann Coulter, that would be exciting! :)

[RoseofTexas]

It's probably a rouse to get the attention off OsAMA’s sucky debate performance at Saddleback.