OBAMA NAMES 3 PEOPLE TO VP SEARCH TEAM

[RobJohnson]

WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama named a three-person team including Caroline Kennedy to lead his search for a running mate Wednesday while expressing confidence that the Democratic Party would soon unify after a bruising battle for the presidential nomination.

"I'm very confident of how we're going to be able to bring the party together," Obama said after a brief conversation with Hillary Rodham Clinton, his vanquished rival.

Campaign officials said Kennedy, who is the daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, as well as former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder and longtime Washington insider Jim Johnson have already begun compiling information on potential running mates. They disclosed no names.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06042008/news/nationalnews/obama_names_3_people_to_vp_search_team_113951.htm

[Lauri]

is this typical? or is the Senator so inexperienced, and friendless, that he needs help finding his VP?

running on that 'change' mantra means he essentially has to bring in a virtual unknown person from outside of DC.

that's going to go over real well in his party.

[Wretched Excess]

holder was behind the outrageous pardon of marc rich by president clenis.

[Wretched Excess]

and appointing jim johnson to his VP search committee has a set of problems all of it's own.

on edit:  the permalink seems to be a little unreliable, so here is the text of the blog entry.  but try to find the actual
entry, since there is a ton of cool reference links in it.

"The same old Washington game with the same old players": Please tell me that Obama has not picked Jim Johnson, Walter Mondale's campaign chairman and an an architect of the multi-billion dollar Fannie Mae debacle, to lead his vice-presidential selection process. ... Johnson helped Walter Mondale pick a nominee who immediately became mired in controversy, as Ambinder notes. (He also helped John Kerry pick a running mate who didn't help the ticket --and creeped the candidate out.) ... Obama's rhetoric about avoiding the old Washington players always seemed to me the phoniest part of his message. Now we know just how phony. Johnson's exactly the sort of veteran Dem Party bigshot--now rich off the wages of doing good--whose clutches you'd hope a smart freshman Senator would avoid. What's next? Terry McAuliffe as Secretary of the Treasury? ... Obama says: "He is a friend of mine. I know him." ... Starter Tip for Johnson: The Edwards Campaign Love Child has been born! ... Traditional link: Here's a prescient Slate piece on Johnson and Fannie Mae that Johnson called "unbelievable trash." .. 1:27 P.M. link

[formerlurker]

From the looks of his search team it appears as though Obama is looking for an actual communist to run as his VP.   I don't know if Bernie Sanders is up for the tough campaigning schedule, but damn skippy -- I can't think of many people more left of Barack Hussein Obama.