The Associated Press is reporting that Barack Obama will name Democratic Senator Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice-presidential nominee. The report has now been confirmed by the Obama campaign.
The unnamed official spoke on condition of anonymity, claiming that he or she did not wish to pre-empt the campaign’s official announcement, promised for Saturday morning. One assumes that the anonymity is also to protect the individual’s job, since it is certain that the Obama campaign will be absolutely livid at having the official announcement upstaged and robbed of the drama of the moment.
CNN is claiming that multiple sources have confirmed the story. One wonders if the tip was acquired through bluff on the part of a news reporter. It is common for reporters to claim that someone else has made a statement, and then to ask for confirmation, in the hopes that a second source will then crack and issue the “confirmation”. Given that so much speculation has been swirling around the 65-year old Biden, it is not unreasonable to hypothesize that a savvy reporter played telephone tag with a few sources late Friday night and eventually got someone to spill the beans.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackBREAKING NEWS ON John McCain’s VP pick.
I was chatting with J-Mac a few minutes ago, and he told me that he’s down to three finalists:
1. Margaret Thatcher. Why? She has a LOT of experience, and he looks young compared to her.
2. Paris Hilton. Why? With Paris as VP, nobody will ever look at or listen to the opposition. They’ll be looking at her.
3. Michael Jackson. Win back the black vote. Keep the white vote. Maybe add some of the woman vote. And if we can’t get people back on the moon, at least we can do the moonwalk.
Just thought you’d like to know,
Yuri
P.S. J-Mac is thinking he might have all THREE as VP. Corporations have more than one VP, why not the US of A?
Obama and Biden have some big policy differences that McCain will exploit. Obama didn’t want a yes man but I think he ended up with a no man.
Not WRIGHT for America has a hilarious spoof post about Obama debating Biden instead of McCain. http://www.notwrightforamerica.com. I think that sums up the problems with the Biden pick.
This is the way things should be, get off what we are on now
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