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Obama (Jokingly) Picks Running Mate
April 28, 2008 4:35 PM
ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Senator Barack Obama has chosen his running mate if he wins the Democratic nomination. Well, not really.
But Jean Weiss, an 82-year-old woman from North Carolina, has gotten closer to joining an Obama ticket than anyone else to-date.
During a town hall in Wilmington, an exuberant Weiss stood up and received the biggest cheer in the room when she launched into a long speech about all the reasons she supports Obama.
"Don't hit on Hillary," Weiss advised, "Bring us all back. Let her do that stuff. Leave her alone, you don't need to do that. You are higher than that."
"Will you be my running mate?" Obama answered. "That's my running mate there, she's got me fired up!"
The Senator, and his potential Veep, hugged after Weiss stormed the stage and Obama stepped down to greet his biggest fan.
The Senator has been mum in the past about his choice for a vice presidential running mate should he becoming the nominee saying such talk is premature. Obama has also dismissed talk of becoming a vice presidential candidate himself in the event Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., wins the Democratic nomination.
The idea of a Clinton-Obama or Obama-Clinton dream ticket has been suggested several times over the course of the increasingly bitter primary fight. In the ABC News debate in mid-April, neither candidate seemed willing to entertain the notion, and several Democratic heavyweights, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., have dismissed it out of hand.
April 28, 2008 in Bush, George W., Hunter, Duncan, Kucinich, Dennis, Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (94)
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LOL he is trying to win the older voters.
Jean Weiss, would have to be his VP for that.
He trying to Fluff off Wright. We all know they are best friends, and his father figure like he has told us, and he can't disown him any more than his grandmother, his grandmother probably more so since she is a "Typical White Woman to him"
Go Obama, take Wright and Michelle with you! Your not the one
Posted by: Sharon | Apr 28, 2008 4:53:42 PM
Becky, Mmmm...., Al Gore, Ed Rendell, Barabara Streisand, Cher, Stan Lee, Brad Pitt, Mike Wallace, Larry King, et. al involved with Hillary in some scheme....So, who is the elitist? More evidence of Clinton hypocrisy...
Posted by: indy_voter | Apr 28, 2008 4:56:16 PM
well I don't know who will vote for him he may win the nomination but he will lose the race for sure now .Wright is not going away we the Democratic voters are do an explanation since he did sit under this pastor and most people go to a church because they have the same vision as his pastor.
Posted by: Bishop | Apr 28, 2008 4:57:54 PM
hey it was the folks on the internet and media that gave Rev. Wright a national voice, now he is going to use it.
Posted by: Louis | Apr 28, 2008 5:05:20 PM
Did you guys know that NEITHER party has EVER handed the nomination to the guy who LOST every single major primary ?
Never has a candidate lost every major primary , then gone on to win the white house.
Its a joke.
Posted by: tomdavie | Apr 28, 2008 5:05:33 PM
Joe Biden or Gen. Wesley Clark are yoru best bets Obama.
Posted by: Louis | Apr 28, 2008 5:07:31 PM
Heck, isn't she younger than McCain?
Posted by: Johnny Boy | Apr 28, 2008 5:10:24 PM
well we know where change,change,fix it from the bottom up meaning the white race if wright said it once he said it a dozen times change from the bottom up and yes we can .
Posted by: Bishop | Apr 28, 2008 5:11:21 PM
Never in a million years would a Clinton/Obama ticket go over. Obama has done too much damage for the Dem Party to recover.
Wright would cut off his right arm and left leg to be vice president on the obama ticket. That is part of his problem - he is realizing that obama to be elected cannot take wright into the White House/Oval office with him - now wright is really mad - remember he stated that he would go after obama if he is elected? This is a really demented person that obama consults for spiritual(God Forbid) and political advise? Do you people understand what damage obama/wright can do to the USA?
Posted by: Lou | Apr 28, 2008 5:21:14 PM
Clinton wanted to pick Obama as VP. I am sure of it. But he cant now. The same reason that Obama is unelectable will trail them around.
Obama should have honestly just waited until he had some experience and moved to the center with a voting record to back it up before he ran for president.
Now all this crap is going to follow Obama round for his entire career.
Posted by: tomdavie | Apr 28, 2008 5:25:30 PM
It is Obama running for the presidency and not Rev Wright. Do we want 8 years of HillBill in the whitehouse or a messagener of change- Sen Obama. I know it is hard for lots of people to swallow that. Rev Wright has said mostly right suff on his speach in Detroit. That is the fact but most people are not willing to accept it. I will vote of Obama if he is a nominee otherwise for Ralph Nader.
Posted by: silkwool | Apr 28, 2008 5:25:47 PM
Well said Mrs. Weiss.
Glad to know others are tired of politicians who are stuck in the mud.
Posted by: Dan | Apr 28, 2008 5:26:37 PM
This is a cute and cool story. It make you feel good to be an American. Obama 08!
Posted by: Erik | Apr 28, 2008 5:28:29 PM
Gov Easley of NC just announced that he will be endorsing Hillary Clinton for PRESIDENT!!!!
GO Hillary 08
Posted by: Michael | Apr 28, 2008 5:29:08 PM
me thinks its over....clinton cannot even pick him. that's sad. the bad thing is the mainstream media has been beating up clinton for months and running to rescue obama from dangers seen and unseen, but they are shockingly silent now. why? because they cannot help him through this, and they know it's basically over.
question: why did wright do this? if he's not doing it because someone paid him to do it, then he's a bigger narcissist than obam.
Posted by: tony | Apr 28, 2008 5:36:43 PM
Thank you Jean Weiss, from my heart to your mouth to his ears!!!
Good for you!!!! He doesn't need to campaign dirty. No, no, no. He is an inspiration, a point of igniting the hope and trust that has turned cynical. Doesn't matter if it wins. Matters if it touches people's hearts.
If the campaign succeeds in dragging Obama down into that ugliness, look what we lose, all that joy. All that joy. You cannot blame the man for beinbg tired and homesick.
The next thing the elders who love him have to yell at him is to get Michelle and the kids on the bus with him and stay together til the Fat Lady Sings.
Posted by: Gaias Child | Apr 28, 2008 5:49:53 PM
Obama will be the nominee. She can't catch him, the SDs won't rescue here either. Dems are registering at record rates. Once the light is turned on McSame ..all will be Okay. There's a lot at stake, the Supreme Court paramount amongst them..not to vote for a Democrat is November is suicide.
Posted by: AquarianRealm | Apr 28, 2008 5:51:50 PM
Hillary will do and say anything to get the nod, she's now pandering on the gas tax..lol! Unbelievable. Her and hubby need to go away and soon. A Bush and/or Clinton has occupied the White House since 1980..time to fumigate the place and get some new, reasonable, non DLC, non Republican-lite, non-Corporate controlled blood in the White House.
I choose Obama. He's a superior choice. Hillary scares me, she wants it way too bad..and Bill is dying to get back in the White House..makes me very uneasy.
Time to move from the Bushes and Clintons, America deserves better.
Posted by: Aquarian Realm | Apr 28, 2008 5:57:31 PM
Any dem that votes for McCain obviously has not lived in this country for the past 8 years.
Posted by: erin | Apr 28, 2008 6:01:31 PM
His VP choice should have strong foreign policy background,not that McCain has any but evidently that's the best the GOP can do. Maybe Sam Nunn since he did endorse Obama,and he is considered a moderate to conservative dem,with foreign policy background. Seems it would balance the ticket
Posted by: merle7 | Apr 28, 2008 6:02:23 PM
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