interesting, also, that the "theme" on the night that the veep nominee is to speak is "securing america's future". you couldn't very well put a tim kaine in that situation, but you could put up a joe biden or an evan bayh to speak to that issue. or even a hillary clinton, for that matter. this is all assuming that The BarackStar! has pretty much made up his mind on his veep, and intentionally chose the theme on the night the veep was to speak.
bill richardson, one of my early predictions for dem veep nominee, apparently committed political suicide yesterday by spewing rampant silliness all over the airwaves about the russian/georgian situation.