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Virginia Governor Out of the VP Race?

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August 21, 2008 3:21 PM

ABC News' Jennifer Duck Reports: After a private meeting between Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine intensified the vice presidential drumbeat, does Kaine's schedule (and verb usage) reveal he's not actually in the running?

New_image Following an event in Virginia, Kaine spoke to reporters and revealed that he's flying to Denver Friday night and that his whole family will be with him. "We're also trying to make a family vacation out of it," Kaine said.

Obama has plans to appear with his running mate on Saturday in Springfield, Ill.

Kaine's reflections on being in the vice presidential mix were also tinged more with past tense than present.

"It makes me feel good...flattering," Kaine said, "I've always thought it seemed a bit unlikely but I'm not going to tell you it hadn't been fun."

Asked if he has been let in to any conversations surrounding the Democratic veepstakes, Kaine said "I'm going to let the campaign take from here. They're going to reveal what they want to reveal when they want to reveal it."

"It's been nice to be mentioned but I'm going to let them do the heavy lifting at this point," he added.

Pressed by the grammar police press corps on his usage of past tense, Kaine said "I'll let you be the grammar judge although I've never been known for accuracy in grammar so it would be hard to scrutinize my grammar and make a conclusion."

Kaine said he had a "calm feeling about it all" and that his obsession with the veepstakes ran lukewarm, particularly compared to the press.

"There have been ups and downs, I gotta admit," Kaine said of the process, "but I just got a good, calm feeling about it. It's going to work out the way it's supposed to."

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You guys in the media clearly need a hobby to get you past these slow news periods.

You know, slow... as in times when we aren't involved in two wars, taking sides in a third, and staring down the barrel of a bad economy. Slow times like that.

Posted by: Paul | Aug 21, 2008 3:30:28 PM

Abc the National Enquirer for politics. No wonder alternative media is getting all of your viewers/traffic. And no wonder your turning to the government to destroy it.

Posted by: argh! | Aug 21, 2008 3:34:08 PM

With more and more coming out about Obama's much cozier relationship with the terrorist Bill Ayers, I'll bet people are rethinking being Obama's VP. Plus they don't want that humiliating loss in November.

Just sayin.

Posted by: Jo | Aug 21, 2008 3:34:19 PM

Jo, I think more folks should be concerned about the numerous sexual relationships McCain has had outside of his marriages, a sure indication that he a lyin', cheatin', schemin' dirty dog!

Posted by: hang | Aug 21, 2008 3:42:58 PM

Jo, not to mention, his relationship with Mr. Keating, his relationship with the war criminals currently in the white house; oh, and google McCain Land Deal and see if you don't get an eye opener with that!

Posted by: hang | Aug 21, 2008 3:44:51 PM

Yesterday while Jake had way too much time on his hands and was once agian, the ABC gossip, CNN scooped him and announced that Carolyn Kennedy was going to be the VP.
Bummer, no more speculation!

Posted by: DAVID NH | Aug 21, 2008 3:45:06 PM

Bayh, Bayh Biden and Kaine. It's Bayh for sure unless he pulls a Hillary.

Posted by: hopesprings52 | Aug 21, 2008 3:47:28 PM

Stupidity only matched by phony nothingness.

Posted by: fact check | Aug 21, 2008 3:48:06 PM

Jo

Give it up! We Obama supporters arent' worried about McCain. As evidenced by his stupid gaffe yesterday regarding how many homes they own, all his people can come back with is Rezko. If Obama had done anything illegal, wouldn't he have been arrested? He wasn't even mentioned at Rezko's trial and let's face it. At least it was just 1 house. Mr. McGoo is toast!

Posted by: kit | Aug 21, 2008 3:50:25 PM

Jo
A little obsessed are you? Tell us more about Bill Ayers - You make those statements and can't back them up with solid facts. Just like your friend McCain

Posted by: cjr | Aug 21, 2008 3:53:05 PM

kit - If Obama had done anything illegal, wouldn't he have been arrested?
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Yes, he should have been arrested in the court of law, and he has been arrested and sentenced to lose in November in people's court. He has lied, repeatedly, from his associations, brainwashing to voting for Cheney's energy and Bush's spy bills.

Posted by: fact check | Aug 21, 2008 3:53:53 PM

Hang, Not to mention how well the city of Chicago is doing right now under Obamas leadership. Maybe when he is president we can all be ducking bullets!He maybe first should have taken care of the problems he was elected for instead of trying to be the savior of the world.

Posted by: ronnie | Aug 21, 2008 3:57:19 PM

---"It makes me feel good...flattering," Kaine said, "I've always thought it seemed a bit unlikely but I'm not going to tell you it hadn't been fun."---

The tense is wrong in this sentence . . . shouldn't it be 'hasn't been fun', not 'hadn't been fun'.

It seems like a little thing, but I think it shows it's him and he's an honest guy who's not very good at bluffing.

Maybe he's lying about going to Denver on Friday although his family is going?

The question to ask should have been if they were going to attend the convention because he's not slated to speak . . . unless he's VP and he knows it!

Posted by: SamTheCat | Aug 21, 2008 4:11:15 PM

The little fella from Illinois may very well bring a surprise - and the little lass from the Kennedy clan has been known to do it more than once.

Posted by: OnTheGloryRoad | Aug 21, 2008 4:14:18 PM

Obama will pick Hillary for his VP. He has not other choice since he is losing ground over McCain and the Hillary's supporters.

Posted by: willie | Aug 21, 2008 4:15:45 PM

if its not hillary, this dem is voting mccain.

Posted by: ron | Aug 21, 2008 4:17:20 PM

Obama's VP choice will be someone with the name...HUSSEIN.

Posted by: ablanche08 | Aug 21, 2008 4:19:55 PM

It's not going to be announced today...wait I just got a text from Obama It's......my battery just died.

Posted by: Charles | Aug 21, 2008 4:22:21 PM

Of all the stupid things to print...yesterday it was Obama referring to the VP as a "He" and today it is a conclusion based on the usage of a certian verb tense.

Ok, ABC I will do your job...why not run an expose on how the VA hospitals in TX and around the nation are woefully underfunded and are unable to properly care for soldiers returning from battle in Iraq.

Go to any Vetran's hospital and see for yourself...support our troops is a motto our President and Congress seem to cling to only when they are shipping our soldiers out not when they return home injured and in need of proper care.

ABC, how about producing journalism that informs and inspires people because right now your "news" reporting is a joke.

Posted by: Jen | Aug 21, 2008 4:23:11 PM

There's only one: Hillary Clinton.

His failure to act, the resentments from the Obama campaign to agnolish Clinton won big has put Obama in a terrible squeeze. Is he picking someone else with negative Electoral Map...

She acts, Clinton was selling the Dream Team after Texas, saying she'd have him as VP. It was tactic, it was political savy and it respected what had happened in the caucuses.

Since "winning it" 3rd of June, Obama should have given it to Clinton 4rd of June. He failed to act. He lets it fester, plays like there are a dozen other candidates to choose from, half of them woman. Never Clinton. Obama is not ready to lead because he fails to act from political realities. He wants to moll on things, see it from all sorts of angles, find the neuances. Is he ready to lead?

Being president is above Obama's pay grade.

Posted by: Sylvia Johnsen | Aug 21, 2008 4:23:27 PM

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