Obama veep selection to be announced early next week?

The LA Times Top of the Ticket blog writes about an email the Obama campaign is sending out to those who signed up for email updates from the website telling them they can sign up to be the “first to know” when Obama announces his VP running mate:

Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, is on vacation in Hawaii tonight. We believe. But, thanks to loyal Ticket reader Mark, just minutes ago we learned that the freshman senator’s presidential campaign has confirmed that announcement of Obama’s running mate choice is very near.

An e-mail just sent out says Obama “is about to choose a running mate.” And when word comes, it will come by text message, e-mail and on the campaign website. An interesting twist that could mean the word might be released this week even during Obama’s family vacation.

The announcement will surely come before the Democratic National Convention starts in Denver on Aug. 25. It could even come while the candidate is on vacation, scheduled to end next Friday. If not, that leaves a 10-day announcement window of Aug. 15-25.

The traditional scenario would be for Obama and his pick to appear at a grand joint announcement somewhere with their families and dozens of TV cameras.

However, if hypothetically the announcement was to be made dramatically via cellphone texts, e-mails and the Obama website, the two candidates would not need to be together.

I seriously doubt he’d announce his VP selection while sunning and funning in HI.Â I anticipate an announcement early next week in an effort to blunt whatever momentum McCain might have gained from having this week all to himself.

Related to all this, USA Today has an article up today about how the pasts of several VP contenders for both McCain and Obama are being scoured.Â

Let’s hear some predictions: Who’s Obama going to pick? My $$’s on VA Gov. Tim Kaine.Â Virginia is a toss-up state at this point, and would be a feather in the cap of Obama, who desperately wants to show that he can win key Southern states.

Your thoughts?

15 Responses to "Obama veep selection to be announced early next week?"

Anthony (Los Angeles) says:

August 11, 2008 at 1:07 pm

I don’t know about Kaine. He’s still a likely choice, but the Russo-Georgian war has again embarrassed the Prophet Barack as a clueless twit on foreign affairs: first he blames the victim (Georgia), then his campaign parrots Kremlin talking points to attack a McCain adviser. After this, he may be looking more closely at someone with a strong foreign policy resume, like Richardson or Biden.

Sad thing (for the Democrats) is that those two are the best they’ve got and they know much more than Obama, but they’re both idiots.
yo says:

August 11, 2008 at 1:40 pm

Whoever it is, the republican response will be labeled as racist, even if the vp nominee is white. They have to play that card to win, so they will.

It is becoming more apparent every day that obama could conceivably lose, so the dems and the entire media will go into “repubs are racist” meme very, very soon.

If anyone from the maccain campaign goes into “apology” mode after the bs attacks come, he should be tarred and feathered.
Dana says:

August 11, 2008 at 1:54 pm

Bill Richardson. Mr Richardson brings foreign policy experience, and can bring in Hispanic votes.
Mwalimu Daudi says:

August 11, 2008 at 1:55 pm

For the Democrat Party: Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. There is no chance that she will either out-shine or out-think the Messiah (two points in her favor). Plus she has breasts and no Y-chromosome and would complete an All-Entitlement Vote-For-Us-Or-You-Are-A-Bigot Dream Ticket.

For the GOP: Senator Lindsey Graham. McCain makes either absolutely brilliant or absolutely moronic moves in his campaign (nothing in between), and since he has been on a hot streak lately it would seem time for the Bipartisan Bug to bite him and in the resulting delirium cause him to pick another Democrat-lite as VP. But I could be wrong and he could pick Anybody-But-Graham, and then it would be a brilliant pick by comparison.
Lorica says:

August 11, 2008 at 1:56 pm

An e-mail just sent out says Obama “is about to choose a running mate.”

No matter who he picks, there are going to be some huge sour grapes, and I am certain it is going to drop him further in the polls. He is not going to be able to pick the right person, and make everyone happy. I also believe that since BO is such a follower he is going to pick someone who is alot like him, and that is going to cause some major issues. – Lorica
Lorica says:

August 11, 2008 at 2:02 pm

MD I would agree with you except for this “Gang of 10” BS that came out over the weekend. Gramnesty cut the legs out from under McCain with this new stupid Paris Hilton compromise. McCain was just getting traction on an issue that he could easily explain away the change in position, and the American people would love him even more. Along comes Gramnesty proposing more wind and more solar but extremely limited drilling. Thanks Lindsey. – Lorica
Mwalimu Daudi says:

August 11, 2008 at 2:17 pm

MD I would agree with you except for this “Gang of 10â€³ BS that came out over the weekend.

Which is why if the McCain campaign goes into one of its periodic Stuck-On-Stupid modes, Graham would be the “logical” choice.

And why are people coming down so hard on Paris Hilton? It’s true that Miss Hilton is an over-exposed celebrity, but that is also true for the Messiah and I don’t hear calls for Him to quit the race.

It’s also true that she does not have the distinguished record of service to the US that McCain has, but there is a videotape of her, ahem (cough), servicing her boyfriend. Thanks to the pants-down Presidency of William Jefferson Clinton, such service is practically a Constitutional requirement when running for President.

Speaking of the Constitution: the only problem I can see in a Hilton candidacy is that she is not of Constitutional age (35) yet. But in the era of the Living Constitution we can thankfully dispense with nonsense like the rule of law.

Paris Hilton 2008
America Could Do Worse. And Probably Will.
Lorica says:

August 11, 2008 at 2:47 pm

Ahhhhh Sorry it is Monday.

Paris Hilton 2008
America Could Do Worse. And Probably Will.

This is probably the truest campaign slogan I have seen yet. If you don’t mind I might just use this whilest I am in the company of friends and family. We need bumper stickers, and campaign buttons. – Lorica
Mwalimu Daudi says:

August 11, 2008 at 2:53 pm

From an up-coming YouTube video by yours truly:

Stop picking on Paris!! Leave Paris alone!! (sniff) (whimper) (sob)
Great White Rat says:

August 11, 2008 at 4:33 pm

Kaine makes sense to me. He doesn’t carry big time left wing credentials, which reinforces Obama’s current look-I’m-really-a centrist-not-a-liberal facade.

Dana’s point about Richardson is well taken, but I can’t see the Dalai Bama choosing a veep candidate who might re-emphasize his own miserable pittance of accomplishment and experience. That’s where MD’s nomination of Sibelius is intriguing. The problem there is that the PUMA Hillary contigent will not be pleased if some token female is on the ticket that She Herself should have headed.

But what do I know…way back when, my first choice for the GOP nomination was Duncan Hunter, and look where he is now.
forest hunter says:

August 11, 2008 at 6:47 pm

Whomever it is, male or female, it’ll be a same sex marriage.
Dana says:

August 11, 2008 at 6:59 pm

Forest Hunter wrote:

Whomever it is, male or female, it’ll be a same sex marriage.

Scorekeeper! This just has to be worth points!
Leslie says:

August 11, 2008 at 7:41 pm

Kaine would probably be the most help to Obama. Richardson is, of course, the best qualified.
Great White Rat says:

August 11, 2008 at 10:30 pm

Scorekeeper! This just has to be worth points!

It’s definitely an NBA-range three-pointer.
forest hunter says:

August 12, 2008 at 12:45 am

Scorekeeper! This just has to be worth points!
It’s definitely an NBA-range three-pointer.

How about that seven year old girl (from a couple days ago) that had him trippin’ (AGAIN) over his lyin’ tongue?

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