Sources: Obama Campaign Seriously Vetting Kaine
This has to be joke right? We need a vice presidential candidate who is against the death penalty but signs death warrants anyway? A vice-president who used people with psychiatric disabilities as a scapegoat to boost his own political ratings while doing nothing to address the responsibility of people in charge? A VP who has done nothing for folks on fixed incomes in his own state but raise fees and keep Medicaid just as hard to obtain as ever and kept the cap on Medicaid lifetime expenditures that other states don’t have? A VP who is pro-business but not pro-union nor pro-poor people. A VP who retreats immediately in the face of opposition from lobbyists when he does have a good idea such as putting expensive, no more effective and dangerous neuroleptics into the state formulary? A VP with no foreign policy experience? No Senate nor House experience? A VP who will add absolutely nothing to the ticket but baggage? A VP who will not clean up his own state hospitals so is unlikely to help clean up those across the country?
WHY????????????????????????????
July 28, 2008 at 7:28 pm
didn’t you know we are the last group of people leaders want to help? we are lower than violent criminals in many of their eyes.
July 28, 2008 at 9:55 pm
So he can get a jump on dashing our hopes and breaking our hearts?
Honestly, though, the veep doesn’t make that much difference. As long as the Pres doesn’t keel over, and Obama’s healthy as a horse (and a very skinny target).
Sure, Kaine’s a VERY bad choice, but there don’t seem to be any GOOD choices. The problem is THEY’RE ALL POLITICIANS.
July 28, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Yes but there are many better choices. Barbara Boxer for my personal favorite but no one is talking about her at all that I have heard. Russ Feingold. Edwards. Others.