VP announcement will probably be a week before the convention

[question everything]

from Newsweek:

Obama's campaign had hoped to announce his pick this week to grab the spotlight before the Beijing Olympics. But now a decision is unlikely to come until the week before the party convention, which begins in Denver on Aug. 25. According to party sources close to the selection process, who asked not to be identified discussing an internal matter, progress was slowed by Obama's overseas trip—and because his list is more fluid than generally thought.

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In fact, Obama aides have identified potential drawbacks to all the front runners. Biden brings foreign-policy expertise, but there are lingering concerns that his garrulous tendencies might knock the campaign off message. Bayh, who the sources say has been lobbying hard for the nod, brings solid centrist credentials. (An aide says Bayh is not "actively" pursuing the job.) But his wife serves on numerous corporate boards, and she also previously worked as a lawyer for drug giant Eli Lilly—an inconvenient link for a party committed to health-care reform. Kaine is seen as a "change" candidate, but he has no national-security experience. Clinton remains a possibility, but her chances are seen as remote, if only because of the near impossibility of vetting her husband's business affairs.

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1. "vetting her husband's business affairs."

Not to mention his inability to control his tongue. (Preemptively, just because I said that does not mean I hate Bill or Hillary--I don't. Not liking what they say or do does not mean I hate them, which should not be a difficult concept, but is for some.)

[FrenchieCat]

2. The aids aren't saying this about any of the folks mentioned.....

Newsweek reporter is. :rofl:

btw, Could you provide a link? thanks.

[Hippo_Tron]

3. It's almost always junior staffers that give vague complains and always anonymously

I do understand the temptation to talk to the press when you're a low level staffer and don't have much power. But if I were going to do it, I would at least attempt to spin the message in a positive manner for the people I work for, not blow off steam. But more likely I wouldn't make anonymous unauthorized comments to the press at all because those who keep their mouths shut are the ones that advance.

[FrenchieCat]

4. From my understanding the VP vetting process is sequestered away

from the rest of the campaign.

I think that Newsweek makes shit up when it is required.

[Hippo_Tron]

5. Or the junior staffer gives a half story

For example, lets say that I worked for a Senator and I know for a fact that my Senator had a conversation with Caroline Kennedy. I also know that Caroline Kennedy and the Senator are personal friends and that the conversation had nothing to do with Obama's VP search.

But if I simply told Newsweek that the Senator was speaking to Caroline Kennedy and I was unsure why, they would write a story about it. If not Newsweek then certainly Politico would do it.

[question everything]

6. Here is the link. Sorry about that

http://www.newsweek.com/id/150485

As for vetting a husband, just as it was with Geraldine Ferraro, and will probably occur with any married woman candidate. In most cases - Pelosi, Feinstein - it is the husband who made a killing in real estate, for example, and the wife who, after raising the kids, decided to go into politics. So, yes, the husband's business deals get a close scrutiny.

McCain, of course, is the exception and there are already questions how Cindy's empire be handled if - gasp - he wins. Since the beer business is not like stocks and bonds that can be put in a blind trust.