Governor Tim Kaine

Just for the record, I'm predicting Senator Joe Biden as the running mate for Obama. He has the foriegn policy experience and overall experience that Obama needs to help fight off the "Obama has no foreign policy experience" argument. I could be wrong, just a hunch. Regardless of the pick, Obama's choice will give us all an idea of where he thinks his campaign stands. An older, more experienced choice, like Biden, would show that Obama thinks his lack of foreign policy experience is a... Read Full Story

Did you know that charismatic Virginia governor Tim Kaine is on Barack Obama's Vice Presidential short list? It's true, according to today's New York Times! "Now the Obama campaign is eyeing Mr. Kaine as a potential running mate, seeing in him a like-minded breath of fresh air who has also shown he can win in a red state," Kate Zernike reports today. Pretty convincing! In totally unrelated news 12 Vote(s) Read Full Story

In veepstakes news, former DNC head and Clinton campaign chair Terry McAuliffe - speaking before the Fairfax Country Democratic Committee - suggested that Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine would be the best choice as Barack Obama’s running mate.  Earlier this year, I gave my (somewhat premature) opinion on the possibility of an Obama/Kaine ticket: Seeing as how the safest/smartest thing to do is to go with a white guy, if I were going to recommend a vice presidential pick, I’d point to Virginia... Read Full Story

As I predicted a couple months ago, this has been a stupid presidential campaign. McCain has attempted to portray Obama as effete and elite through silly comparisons to Paris Hilton; Obama has outrageously depicted McCain as racist. Meanwhile, the discussion of the policy issues has been superficial and misleading. My favorite is Obama's oft-repeated mantra that McCain wants to cut taxes on oil companies. Why? Because he favors cutting the corporate tax for all corporations, a position Obama... Read Full Story

If presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama selects Virginia Governor Tim Kaine as his running mate, it could set up a potential quirk in Virginia politics next year. If the Democratic ticket were to be victorious this November, Kaine would have to resign from his current office by January 20, 2009, when he would be inaugurated as Vice President of the United States. Upon his resignation, Republican Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling would assume the office of Virginia’s... Read Full Story