Meh.  I guess we're looking at more of the same.  Centrist politicians with limited experience.

I was hoping Obama would see the light, and pick someone whose economic credentials added to the argument that Obama wasn't merely a U.Chicago "let them eat free market cake" guy with no strong economic platform.  Like one of those guys at the forum he just convened (which was great).

I don't understand why Obama is trying to fight this election on foreign policy, "judgment", and "hope", instead of aggressively attacking the Republicans for leading us down a path that has destroyed our pocketbooks.  I guess that's not post-partisan, but I don't think the public is really itching for cooperation so much as it is yearning for results- namely, someone to fix this economic mess.

Please, you're one of those Hilary or bust people. he's surrounded by all the D leaderships, who can provide advice from whatever position they hold. It's another reason to "hold" your vote, and it's obvious. And please remember as your still fighting your primary wars, Obama has held elected office for twice as long as the person he ran against in said primary, so what did you judge the other person on?

Wait, so why not Sebelius then? 2 term Gov, top ratings from Governing Magazine and Time, erased a billion dollar deficit she inherited from the GOP - to me, she's the experience MVP of ALL candidates named on anyone's lists.

Coal, Abortion, general rhetoric - he is both wrong and weak.  Voters like conviction - Kaine lacks it.

He plays well as a good old boy in Virginia, where the center is two football fields to the right and riding the coattails of Mark Warner.  But why would we want him to be the standard bearer of the Democratic Party Nationally?

We have a great opportunity to move the center back to the center and maybe, just maybe a step or two to the left, we need someone proud to be a Liberal on the ticket.

Chris Dodd continues to be my choice, I believe he is exactly in line with what Obama says he is looking for, while he has been a Senator and Congressman for 30 years, he has continually defied expectations within the beltway, making real change by working the system like no one else has in the same time span.  If you want to change the system for real, you need to fully understand all of the functions and processes, Dodd is a person with that knowledge, and a person who has fought for publicly financed elections, transparency of government, rule of law, improving education, health care, paid medical leave, etc etc etc...  Add to it an unmatched level of foreign diplomatic experience with actual success brokering peace (Ireland, Central/South America), and you have someone who fills the only real requirement there is for being Vice President: The capability of stepping in as President in the wake of the most unimaginably terrible tragedy.  Leadership beyond George Bush's instruction to go shopping in the wake of 9/11.

We need to demand stronger DEMOCRATS across the board, we can't allow the beltway pundits to force another weak-knee moderate or turncoat (Lieberman) candidate upon us.  2008 is our chance to stand up and be proud, to make the argument Nationally that has not been made since...before I was born.  Conservatism has taken the lead because they have been unafraid of speaking up and speaking out with confidence.  Why are we afraid?

Just say bye-bye to a lot of women voters. You'll gain a couple evangelicals and lose some centrist-minded women. There are more unmarried women voters today than married women voters.

Here is how you talk about women (get out from between their legs, to start):

It is a humbling experience to be in the presence of those who have such a capacity for forgiveness and care. It is also instructive. If wealthy nations want their assistance programs to be effective, they should look to the women who form the backbone of every society. With some education, training, basic rights and empowerment, women will transform a society -- and the world.

Women today make up a disproportionate percentage of the Rwandan population. In the aftermath of the genocide, they had to head households bereft of fathers. They had to take over farms, and take jobs previously done by men. But there were opportunities, too: Today, 41% of Rwandan businesses are owned by women.

He can pick a veep who will help him win. He can pick a veep who will not help him at all. He can pick a veep who will help him win evangelicals (though I don't see how a Catholic will help win evangelicals) but cost him progressives.

It's his choice. He won fewer votes, but more caucus delegates. It's all about Obama. He can lose it if he so chooses.

if a huge bulk of voters are going to throw a fucking hissy fit because Hillary wasn't chosen, let them. I'm tired of being blackmailed by PUMA.

Please.  There's no evidence of any major # of die-hard Clinton fans not supporting Obama.  

And there is plenty of evidence showing a large swath of Republicans who cannot bring themselves to support McCain.  

When I see people bringing up this right-wing "PUMA" fantasy, I think, "concern troll or someone duped by a concern troll".  

he's promoting other alternatives to abortion. If we have a problem with that, then maybe we need to look at why Republicans frame us as bloodthirsty baby killers.

Kaine is exactly where the party is and should be on the issue, exactly where the Clintons have been, safe, legal and RARE.

BTW Edwards wasn't too far off from Kaine either on abortion.

she said she was interested. She said she'd be open to the idea, she never explicitly said she was interested.

BTW, I'm from New York and before I left for Italy, I was close to staffers in Clinton's Senate office.

She was NOT interested unless she had to do it.

any assumption that he would pick her...EVER. In fact, it was NEVER likely or imminent.

No one ever heard of the Clintons (outside of Arkansas) until 1988, and then it was because he was a national joke because of his disaster of a Key Note Speech that never ended (and didn't do a thing to help Dukakis).

I would like to know where all of these people who have been waiting 20+ years for Hillary to run really are.

Nearly every argument you use against Obama was used against Bill in 1992.  He is too young, he is too inexperienced,  he is too conservative,  he doesn't stand by his convictions, his wife is a liability who can't keep her mouth shut, he should have waited his turn, etc, ad nausium.

You also fail to acknowledge there are a lot of people supporting Obama with the express assumption that he will never pick her.