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Virginia Governor Out of the VP Race?
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?
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."
August 21, 2008 in Kucinich, Dennis, Romney, Mitt, Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (77)
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Remember everyone...the name is...barack HUSSEIN obama...sounds muslim? it surely does.
Posted by: ablanche08 | Aug 21, 2008 4:27:17 PM
Obama can pick Hillary but this Hillary's supporters will not give him my vote. A voter against Obama is a vote against the DNC. Obama lost me when he opened his mouth. NObama for me.
Posted by: Sally298 | Aug 21, 2008 4:29:19 PM
argh, unfortunately the national enqurirer has proven more reliable and unbias then cnn and abc. The news meida let the mag of trash scoop them and become more crediable than them.
Posted by: rachel | Aug 21, 2008 4:29:40 PM
Hang: are u talking about John Edwards? Spizter? or Kawame of Detroit all low life demencrats..... or maybe u meant Bill Clinton a racist and adulter ?? just wondering
OBAMA a danger to America, Read Obama Nation and find out the truth!!!!!
Posted by: Hilly-Billy | Aug 21, 2008 4:30:07 PM
Well, McCain sounds like a laxative so I guess we don't have a person to vote for since we're voting based on names.
Posted by: Mike | Aug 21, 2008 4:31:58 PM
To: Media
Subject: Real Big News Defined
Real big news- McCain agreeing with a
questioner's suggestion for reinstatement of the draft.
Not real news-What Biden says when he comes back from the landfill.
Posted by: R. Wood | Aug 21, 2008 4:32:04 PM
It has to be Hillary. If Obama had been doing better than he is, he would have picked someone else. However, he now needs the "dream ticket". I wish she would say no though.
Posted by: Susan | Aug 21, 2008 4:34:32 PM
Hey Joe, how old was Senator Obama when he met Bill Ayers? Don't spread rumors that you couldn't possibly know the facts behind. It just makes you look ignorant. Kind like John McSame not knowing how many houses he owns, or whether or not he was part of the Keating five, or whether or not he devulged secrets that got other American sevicemen killed in 'Nam when he was a POW.
Posted by: How Many? | Aug 21, 2008 4:41:38 PM
Americans are truly stupid people. You would vote for or against someone based on their name?? Or lies told in a book that should be classified as "fiction"?? You voted for Dubya in 2004 because he scared you into fearing another attack from Al Queda. You bought into all his and Cheney's lies and this country is now going bankrupt -- morally and financially bankrupt!! McCain only seems to want War and more war. He shoots off his mouth about Russia invading Georgia. What's he going to do about it? We don't have an army to go in there and beat up the Russians now do we?? No, our military is tied up in two other wars - one of which was totally unjustified--at the cost of $10Billion a month. But, hey, better kill them over there than over here, right?? You people are just so stupid.
Posted by: geecee | Aug 21, 2008 4:42:08 PM
I like Joe Biden for VP, but I am sure Obama will pick the best person for the job. Who ever Obama picks will be much better then McShame's pick, for the economy, and national security. Go to thenextcheney.com and see the looser GOP possibilities for VP.
Posted by: Eric S. | Aug 21, 2008 4:44:31 PM
Who Cares? I don't no matter whom he picks Im not voting for him, never even crossed my mind. I will stay home in Nov. I hope that the old man wins and then Ill work my butt off to get Hillary elected in 2012.
Posted by: Cas | Aug 21, 2008 4:45:07 PM
Obama and Ayers worked together on a program administering money from a grant from the Annenberg Foundation to improve education in Chicago. This foundation based on publishing money including TV Guide also funded the Communications Schools at USC in Los Angeles and the University of Pennsylvania. As Obama said on the debate when Hillary brought up Ayers name that he was only 8 years old when Ayers was involved with the Weatherman faction of SDS and Bill Clinton had given him a pardon. The committee included many respected citizens of Chicago and Ayers has been a professor for a number of years and the last time I checked had not been in trouble for anything. Once again the overly zealous McCainiacs are trying to make something out of nothing. By the way, they might want to read what Mr. Corsi said about John McCain too.
Posted by: bhciapol | Aug 21, 2008 4:47:14 PM
LOL WHAT LOSERS,OBAMA IS FOR CHANGE? NOW HE'S TALKING KENNEDY FOR VP? WHAT HAS SHE DONE LATELY? MAYBE A GRAND OPENING FOR A STARBUCKS? AND LIKE HILL SAID WHY CANT HE CLOSE THIS DEAL? HE'S SLIPPING IN THE POLLS!! ALL YOU HILL FANS DO THE RIGHT THING VOTE MCCAIN 08'
Posted by: RICK | Aug 21, 2008 4:52:18 PM
Sure, Obama is a Muslim...
To every sad, tired Republican on this blog posting the same old racially devisive crap:
Good one, really, clever...aren't you late for a Klan meeting?
Yep, go you rich, crusty, old, white guy who won't change a thing!
Best of luck with another 4 years of a McBush, you know your Grandmaster of the Republican party.
Posted by: Connor | Aug 21, 2008 4:52:38 PM
In an interview with "Fox News Sunday" in April, Obama said he "deplored" Ayers action in the 1960s.
"Mr. Ayers is a 60-plus-year-old individual who lives in my neighborhood, who did something that I deplore 40 years ago when I was 6 or 7 years old," Obama said then. "By the time I met him, he is a professor of education at the University of Illinois. We served on a board together that had Republicans, bankers, lawyers, focused on education."
Posted by: Ayers | Aug 21, 2008 4:55:20 PM
bhciapol - Please don't try to explain anything with logic, truth or reason to a Bush/McCain (and, unfortunately now, any Hillary) supporter. It just doesn't register. They are not capable of processing the truth. They only react to lies, innuendo, scurrilous rumors, smears, hate and b.s.
Posted by: geecee | Aug 21, 2008 4:57:14 PM
Terror threats sure seem to have increased. Even on this site the story on how to terrorize is posted as front page news. Obama, chicken to fight w/ polsi because they wont get re-elected if they do and the terrorist know it? Hmm God save america
Posted by: Jim Rod | Aug 21, 2008 4:57:24 PM
Obama will say, he "deplored" his mother if is will win him votes.
Posted by: suzy | Aug 21, 2008 4:57:55 PM
BREAKING NEWS:::Clinton Supporters and Hillary Clintons brother meeting with John MCCain s people adn This is NOOOOOOOOO joke..lmao this is gonna blow the lid off OBAMIE
Posted by: Hilly-Billy | Aug 21, 2008 4:58:36 PM
Dear Swiftboaters and Rush fans, you are not going to torpedo are candidate this time with your lies. This time there are too many of us and we are too well prepared and armed with all the tools necessary to fight back. So crawl in a hole or move next door to Bush in Texas so you can talk about the good ole' days while you're watching cars driving in circles doing left hand turns, drinking Everclear from a Mayo jar pulling your teeth out with a pair of pillars!
Posted by: SwiftBoaters Beware | Aug 21, 2008 4:58:46 PM
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