Obama short list

If they IM'd: Obama's (Former) VP Prospects

August 25, 2008 - After an ENTIRE FRIGGING WEEK of hovering over our blackberry screens, Barack Obama finally announced that his choice for Vice President would be (slightly pissed off drum-roll...) Sen. Joe Biden. This surely didn't sit well with the other prospects, but the whole process appears to have brought th...

From The Room: The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Who Cares About Your Running Mate?

August 21, 2008 - Everybody has their shorts all bunched up waiting to see who Obama and McCain are going to pick as their running mate but really, who cares? Sure there are some stupid picks that the two could make like Obama picking Hillary and galvanizing the right or McCain picking Lieberman and...

Our Veep Picks: Why Tim Kaine is already out of the running...

August 21, 2008 - "Obama-Kaine." Say it fast.* *Hint: It sounds like "Oba-McCain." Or even better, "ObombMcCain." And even if it doesn't call up the McCain association, some people will just hear "Obamacaine," which sounds like an eczema cream. On the other hand, Obama-Sebelius sounds like the name of a...

If they IM'd: Obama's VP Prospects

August 20, 2008 - The whole country is waiting breathlessly to find out who will be chosen to stand next to Barack Obama sometimes. If you think you're getting impatient, imagine how Evan Bayh, Joe Biden, Tim Kaine, and Kathleen Sebelius m...

Obama has thoroughly vetted his veep, and yes, it's as dirty as it sounds

August 20, 2008 - Barack Obama has settled on a running mate. The vetting process, which includes intense background checks of the candidate and his/her spouse, took longer than expected because Obama had to wait until Mrs. Clinton quit the race in June. Caroline Kennedy, along with Eric Holder, a former deputy attor...

We finally got the text, and it's Obiden time!

August 19, 2008 - John King called it at 12:50 AM! And now, after being annoyed to the point of taking a hammer to our phones, we finally got the text we were waiting for. Obama picked Joe Biden. The text was still a little weird though...

From The Room: Barack Obama's Vice President Will Be...

May 30, 2008 - Just the other day (okay, a month and a half ago) I was having an off-the-record conversation with an extremely influential leader of the netroots community. How influential? Let me put it this way: Without him, there would be no Ned Lamont. Given that triumph, we naturally wanted...

From The Room: Choosing a Running Mate

May 28, 2008 - Now is the time of year that the parties' nominees (and those who are going to inevitably be the nominee because things like votes, popularity, money, and logic will eventually win the day) start to look at the rest of the country's citizens and see who might best compliment...

McCain selecting who runs America after he falls, breaks hip

May 26, 2008 - John McCain met with three potential vice-presidential candidates in Sedona this weekend: former rival Mitt Romney, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, and Florida governor Charlie Crist. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton is repor...

FAQ: the Vice Presidency

June 5, 2008 - With the process of finding the candidates to replace George Bush at an end, attention has moved to who's going to replace Dick Cheney, assuming he leaves voluntarily and doesn't charge up his pacemaker, barricade himself in his office, and start shooting people in the face. Both...

Inappropriate Hottie Rundown: Potential Democratic VPs

May 14, 2008 - As West Virginians hand Hillary Clinton a landslide victory over her (black, totally black and FYI, nightmarishly black) rival, Barack Obama, it's still virtually impossible for Clinton to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, since Obama leads her by nearly 200 delegates and nobody's makin...

From The Room: Obama's Short List for VP Leaked to Press

May 13, 2008 - "Obama Vice President Picks: Who Are The Frontrunners?"- Huffington Post...