dupe n/t

[slick8790]

See new thread w/ poll

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6561805&mesg_id=6561805

[writes3000]

1. Absolutely. The interview they showed on MSNBC today screamed - not the VP.

I could be wrong but I'm willing to bet money it won't be Kaine.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

2. I think so, too! He's faking us all out. He posed with Bayh, Kaine,

Hagel and Reed to keep people talking shit. I agree that he could be faking us all out...

[hedgehog]

3. I was thinking it might be a great fake, myself.

Alternatively, all the talking heads have talked to each other and fed this frenzy. If A and B say it, it must be true and I better say it too or people will think I don't have any sources!



I wouldn't be surprised at all if Obama brings in a prominent non-politician. Not Warren Buffet or Marion Wright Edelman, but someone of that caliber. What if he picked a smart person that's a real policy wonk on health care reform?

[trewsx11]

4. My conspiracy theory is something like this:

I think Obama is making a HUGE mistake in going around on interviews implying that he wants someone from outside Washington, because he is--in effect--eliminating his two best VP prospects: Joe Biden and Evan Bayh, who are DC insiders.

So he headfakes a really awful candidate like Tim Kaine in the media, so people will breathe a sigh of relief when he announces a better candidate like Biden, Bayh, or Hillary.

[PurityOfEssence]

5. I swear, ANY imbecility this campaign slobbers on with will be met with claims of its sheer genius

It's been like this since the beginning and it's just getting ridiculous.

Obama could convert to Islam and engage in non-consensual sex with a male goat while burning the flag on the Capitol steps and some zealot here would perk up with chipper drivel about this being a move of pure tactical brilliance. Such is faith and hope, I guess: the willing suspension of mere, base-level sense.

Maybe the Obama campaign is just continuing on with its ultrasafe sucking up to the blockheaded unswervatives with a Kaine possibility. Maybe the campaign really DOES want much more religion in politics and it's NOT just a tactical deception to sucker the faithful before pulling the prayer rug out from under them.

The elaborate fancy-footwork claimed to justify lame-assed decisions would impress Fred Astaire.