How would you feel if Kaine becomes Obama's running mate?

[Writer]

[jefferson_dem]

1. Let's put it this way --

Me ->

[muntrv]

2. Except for 1960, the VP choice has little impact on the election.

[Phredicles]

3. Is he really any worse than Joe Lieberman?

The bar has been set pretty low here...

[napoleon_in_rags]

4. I feel like I'm voting on the guys name...

So I actually don't know. Can't some of the Kaine supporters post some pros???

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. It won't really make that much difference

but he'd be OK with me. I'd really prefer Clark or Biden, but Kaine will be fine. Running mates rarely swing elections one way or another.

[emilyg]

6. Not happy.

[Douglas Carpenter]

7. neither pleased or displeased, but greatly relieved that it is not a neocon nut like Evan Bayh

If one of these nuts ends up influencing American foreign policy, hope for peace in the Middle East are dashed and the likelihood of new imperial wars in the Middle East are dramatically escalated.

If America finds itself going down this road, the the direct and indirect human suffering caused by this lunacy is more than anything we can ever imagine and the current mess we are in will look like a Sunday school picnic. And we can rest assured that with a wrecked economy caused by stratospheric oil prices, and a bankrupted budget deficit caused by un-winnable and intractable conflict will so massively exceed anything we have already seen even under Bush and Cheney - there will be nothing left for social and infrastructure improvements to move our country forward.

PLEASE,PLEASE!!for the sake of humanity-for the sake of the peace of world-A.B.B. ANYBODY BUT BAYH!!

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/bayh_as_veep_he_cochaired_wing.php

"In 2003, Bayh was an honorary co-chair of the neocon pro-war Committee for the Liberation of Iraq -- a group he joined along with none other than John McCain and Joe Lieberman, according to a press release from during the run-up to the invasion.

Check this out, from the group's press release on February 14th, 2003 (via Nexis):

The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI) is pleased to welcome Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) as an Honorary Co-Chairman. Bayh becomes the third U.S. Senator to join the committee after Sens. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) announced their participation on January 28.

The Committee is a neo-con group that was formed to propagandize the country into war. It boasted such illustrious neocon members as Bill Kristol, former CIA director James Woolsey, and even McCain senior foreign policy adviser and Chalabi-bamboozler Randy Scheunemann, whom Josh has been blogging about.

Bayh would, to put it very charitably, muddle Obama's message. It's true that Bayh was said to have subsequently removed himself from the group. But Obama's campaign is partly about -- and rightly so -- the judgment he made, and others didn't, in the run-up to the invasion.

The McCain campaign and the Repubs would have a grand time mocking the choice. Indeed, the McCain camp is already trying to make an issue of Bayh's past."."

[grantcart]

10. Doug I am confused how do you really feel about Bayh?

[Douglas Carpenter]

12. I guess I have been evasive about that, haven't I

Frankly, I vote with Foreign policy on my mind a great deal..

When all is done and said I back the viable candidate who actually might win and who would be less likely to turn the Middle East into a blood bath.

When I see other single issue focused posters demanding uncompromising compliance to a demanding strident line...I feel somewhat jealous. All I am asking for are candidates who are less likely to rain death and carnage on the Middle East. I really don't see how that can be described as demanding perfection.

[stray cat]

8. If it helps the dem win- awesome!

[barack the house]

9. Kaine is fine with me. Obama is an educated guy and his pick will be well thought out.

[SwampG8r]

11. im hoping for biden

going in he was the best most experienced name and he still is as far as VP goes
hate to lose him in the senate tho

[PM7nj]

13. I like him.

He reminds me of my dad. :shrug:

[PatSeg]

14. Not too thrilled

I'd prefer Biden over Kaine or Bayh.

[PresidentObama]

15. Pleased.

[tyedyeto]

16. How many here actually know his stance on Women's Issues?

from what I have seen, he doesn't give a fuck about any woman. Be it Birth control, abortion, or voting rights.

What does he 'know' about the economy? Foreign policy?. Social Security? And a myriad of other issues?


Before we get behind a potential VP nominee........... at least find out where he has been standing

[Cha]

17. I chose other 'cause I want Team Obama to choose

whom he wants and then on to winning this thing.

[ccharles000]

18. I would be ok with it (Neutral)