JACK REED (The Rhode Island Senator) Is Obama Veep Choice? (Wonkette)

[kpete]

JACK REED (THE RHODE ISLAND SENATOR) IS OBAMA VEEP CHOICE?!

Why not?Well, who the hell knows, but we have it on very good authority — an email sent to your editor, who is not named “Chris” — that Rhode Island senior senator Jack Reed will become Obama’s running mate, officially, in the next few hours or at least by tomorrow morning. Why some Eastern senator from a make-believe state? Because he’s a Military Hero, get it?



See that little picture, of Barack and Jack in the Middle East just cold travelin’? That’s from Obama’s Flickr set about his big trip abroad! In fact, Barack picked that very pic to ID the whole set, and you know you always pick the most important photo for that spot.

Chris–

Obama’s pick is Jack Reed. The Secret Service are began protection on Reed in the last 24 hours and have been crawling around Rhode Island since yesterday.

more:
http://wonkette.com/402147/jack-reed-the-rhode-island-senator-is-veep-choice#more-402147

[Sparkly]

1. Hmmm.....

Ya never know!!

Edit: "On July 14, 2008, Reed announced that he was "not interested" in serving as Senator Obama's running mate."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Reed

[ErinBerin84]

2. haha

I just read on Wonkette about that RW blog that claimed the VP was Bayh a couple of hours ago and promised to shut down if they were wrong, and they ACTUALLY DID.



Come on. Who says that today was not successful?

[Davis_X_Machina]

3. Republican Governor...

...in RI. No way to get to 60 senators if you give one away.

[Fenris]

4. "Not only is Reed a war hero who managed to not crash, again, and get captured by village children"

:rofl:

[FrenchieCat]

5. Oh shit.....

I guess someone is right and someone is wrong!

[EC]

6. Reed told Obama he wasn't interested a while ago

but he does have credentials in health care and community services...He's also got the most liberal voting record, which I like but could be a problem.

[mzmolly]

7. Interesting speculation. He sounds "Clarkesque."

But Joe Biden's Mom just left his house so ???

[TwilightGardener]

8. *sigh*--I wish. I doubt it now. I think he said he wasn't vetted.

[Milo_Bloom]

9. One can only hope. A REAL

working class hero who managed to vote AGAINST the IWR?!?!

Seems unlikely, but we can hope.

[grizmaster]

10. He'd be a great choice but glad to keep him as my Senator

Plenty of years ahead for Jack to be the top of the ticket in years to come.