I dont think enough people nationwide know Kaine, of course this could be a sop to his prolife vote he seeks to get in VA and Catholics across the nation also, he is weak on the partial birth votes
and he may think this will save him,

Generally, we know who people are by judging what they have done.

What has Obama done?

Saturday at Saddelback was stupid and even worse, scary.  Americans are being led like sheep and their answer is to follow.  I cannot believe how much the so called progressive blogs are defending the alignment with the religious commuity.  

And today, I sent a nasty e-mail to Cafferty at CNN. When Hillary was mentioned in the VP stakes, the old jerk literally smirked and snarled in such an unprofessional way, I wanted to kick the television.  Why are these abrasive good old boys allowed to get away with this crap.  If anyone had snarled at Obama they would be called a racist. If they snarled at McCain they would be called unpatriotic.  But the good old boys do this every time Hillary is mentioned.  They remind me of little boys (in old bodies) who are angry because a girl tried to come into their clubhouse and they make faces, and spit and snarl.........

If there's any truth to these rumors, that's another huge Konichiwa, B!tches to those pesky voters of any stripe who fastidiously like to keep certain institutions -- like church and state -- separate. (FWIW, I also prefer the separation of Guns and Ammo, but what's the shredding of the lesser amendments among friends?)

Speaking for my Pro-Choice Catholic Self only, appointing a No-Choice deadbeat as VP instead of one that's pro-Constitution is making my choice of Independence all that easier.

I like to flex choice whenever and wherever possible to keep it strong so some d0uchebag doesn't do it for me.

(If I were on Team Obama, I wouldn't make assumptions that Catholics appreciate having govermnent micro-manage their personal life decisions and morality  in general. Something about Free Will and Determinism ... yadda yadda, whatever.

On a related note, he sure is dragging this out. They say in comedy, timing is everything. I'm wondering if he isn't waiting too long. I'm already past the point of suspense and thinking, can we please just get on with this?

As for Kaine carrying virginia, Bush beat Kerry there by eight points(and about 260,000 votes), but among voters under 30 (who made up 17% of the electorate), Kerry beat Bush by 8 points.  So Obama has to do a LOT better than Kerry did with the "younger" vote.

Sleepy, Dopey, and Grumpy.

Here's my theory.  Obama picks Clinton.  And Clinton's spot to speak on Tuesday night is given to Donna Brazile, Arianna Huffington and KOS.

This is a woman who has voted Democratic her entire adult life.  There are millions others like her, and they're not all women  and they're not all middle-aged.  He has to know by now that the only way to get them is to put her on the ticket.

I think his desire to win will lead him to the right decision.  I just can't believe he'd have her campaigning for him while he's on vacation but not put her on the ticket.  

via Ian Urbina, The New York Times: "Flaws in voting machines used by millions of people will not be fixed in time for the presidential election because of a government backlog in testing the machines' hardware and software, officials say. The flaws, which have cast doubt on the ability of some machines to provide a consistent and reliable vote count, were supposed to be addressed by the Election Assistance Commission, the federal agency that oversees voting. But commission officials say they will not be able to certify that flawed machines are repaired by the November election, or provide software fixes or upgrades, because of a backlog at the testing laboratories the commission uses."

warner can give him economics cred, something obama is sorely lacking (witness his latest reverse, double-twist on social security), and warner has shown a succesful business man's knowledge of, as gov.

On a related note, he sure is dragging this out. They say in comedy, timing is everything. I'm wondering if he isn't waiting too long. I'm already past the point of suspense and thinking, can we please just get on with this?

They can't seem to make up their minds, going from this one to that one, back again.

It reminds me of a software vendor from whom we bought an estate and gift tax program about 10-12 years ago.  The president of the company did a masterful sales job, but once we bought the program and started working with it, we found it was chock-full of glitches, and that the back office support was unable to respond as we needed them to.  It got to the point where we formed a group with several other firms who were using it, so that we could identify all the issues and work together to get them resolved.

What we soon realized was that this company, which could not address the glitches and other issues to anyone's satisfaction, was able to stay in business because the sales team kept the pipeline stocked; as long as there were more new customers than existing ones who were bailing out, they had a positive bottom line.

This seems like the Obama Plan to me: keep trying to get new voters to replace the ones who are waking up to the truth of Obama's shortcomings.  What amazes me is that he could be winning new voters AND gaining ground with former Clinton supporters if he would realize that a lot of this is about issues, not inspiration.

It comes down to this not being about us, and what he can do for the country, but about him and what we can do for him.

That was all over the radio today.