Thu
Jul 21 2016
05:42 pm

Announcement expected tomorrow or Saturday. Personally, I'm hoping for Joe Biden, at least for Clinton's first term.

R. Neal's picture

Clinton should announce

Clinton should announce tonight during prime time and steal the spotlight from Trump. Didn't McCain announce Palin during the Democratic convention in 2008?

Rachel's picture

The morning after.

The morning after.

Min's picture

I wish she'd consider someone like...

...Robert Reich, but he endorsed Bernie Sanders, so I doubt she would forgive him for that.

bizgrrl's picture

Howard Dean

Howard Dean

bizgrrl's picture

Gwen Graham, U.S. House of

Gwen Graham, U.S. House of Representatives, Florida, daughter of Bob Graham

Tamara Shepherd's picture

Graham

I had to look her up. It appears that since her first race ever was for that U. S. House seat in 2014, she has *less than* two years experience as an elected officeholder at any level?

And as daughter to former Florida Gov. Bob Graham, her candidacy would make for a *double* family dynasty on the Dem ticket?

What's her appeal, exactly?

Tess's picture

I agree

Biden would be her best choice by far. Or, Michelle O.

MLDaugherty's picture

Biden would sure be the best

Biden would sure be the best choice. He would actually be the best President. I thought earlier that Clinton would pick someone under 50 years old if she did not pick one of the two Virginia Senators Tim Kaine or Mark Warner. There are many younger Democratic women and men that are experienced, talented, and qualified.After reading about her close work with Warner while she served in the Senate, and the respect they have for each other,I thought he had the edge. Now it does appear it will probably be Kaine. Although he would not be my first choice, as I said nobody can beat Biden and Sherrod Brown would be excellent, but Tim Kaine is solid and well qualified. Kaine is a heck of a lot more qualified to be President than Trump.Clinton likely will pick someone she feels is qualified to be President now and someone she can have a good comfortable working relationship with. She is not going to make a John Kerry mistake.Clinton will be sworn in on Jan. 20, 2017 no matter who she picks as V-P and that will be a excellent way to celebrate my birthday.

Rachel's picture

Sherrod Brown. Smart,

Sherrod Brown. Smart, progressive (make Bernie voters happy). And from Ohio.

Hildegard's picture

I heard Tim Kaine, which

I heard Tim Kaine, which would cause the Convention to be a complete disaster.

Rachel's picture

I don't get the appeal of Tim

I don't get the appeal of Tim Kaine, other than he's from a swing state. Won't make Bernie voters happy. Hell, won't even make ME happy.

With so many good choices, let's hope Hillary doesn't go this way.

Tamara Shepherd's picture

*

Per HuffPo, two days ago:

Tim Kaine Calls to Deregulate Banks as He Campaigns to be Clinton's VP.

Kaine signed two letters on Monday urging federal regulators to go easy on banks ― one to help big banks dodge risk management rules, and another to help small banks avoid consumer protection standards.

I just really, really wanted to see those texts of her speeches to Wall Street. Meanwhile, "convention diseaster" is exactly right.

Greg Mackay's picture

Her old friend

Vilsack

bizgrrl's picture

He would not be a bad choice.

He would not be a bad choice.

Hildegard's picture

This is pretty shallow of me

This is pretty shallow of me but I just don't know about the ring of "Clinton, Vilsack!"

Knoxgal's picture

I think it would be a mistake

I think it would be a mistake to choose a senator from a state with a Republican governor. Regaining control of the Senate is critical and this would automatically flip one seat to the Republicans. This eliminates Warren and Sherrod Brown.

jbr's picture

I think Warren is too

I think Warren is too valuable in the Senate

Hildegard's picture

Warren is also too female. I

Warren is also too female. I hope to see a two-woman ticket in my lifetime, but that's just the state of things right now. Also, a Warren pick would cause important donors to shut down.

fischbobber's picture

Best choice

Ellen DeGeneres. This puts Clinton over the top in Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, and Arizona. It puts her in the hunt in Georgia, Tennessee and Texas. She picks up votes for Clinton, sometimes in significant numbers, in virtually every state in the union. She can put Trump in his place without being mean about it and she's one of the most trustworthy people in America. She might not be a mainstream choice, but she would be the difference in this election.

I'm not really sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

Downtown Man's picture

Ellen!

There are too many clowns in politics, but not enough comedians.

Rachel's picture

If you want a comedian, go

If you want a comedian, go with Al Franken.

fischbobber's picture

Franken

Franken would be a great choice. Normally, I wouldn't have likable and personable so high up on thew qualification list, but this election is getting real strange, real fast. It's way more like show business than politics and it's being pulled even further into that paradigm as each day passes. I fear that is beyond the control of anyone involved. Trump got a stiff in Pence and he knows it. The right choice by Hillary will make a world of difference. Helping her get elected should be the highest priority in her choice.

Mike Knapp's picture

Labor Secretary Perez

What's the decision tree
Personally comfortable with the vp/helps in swing state/helps "move to middle" pivot because their polling says Bernie votes are a lock/fundraising/stale, pale, male?
The national review called Perez a leftist radical and he pissed off Chuck Grassley so there's that.

Anonymous922's picture

Corey Booker

Baby boomers won't be thrilled, but he can bring around the BernieOrBust supporters.

R. Neal's picture

I would be OK with Corey

I would be OK with Corey Booker but it appears he has some dirty laundry.

bizgrrl's picture

I, another baby boomer, would

I, another baby boomer, like Booker. I mentioned him as a possibility last night. I don't know if the lawsuit against him and others will hurt his chances

Stick's picture

Uh...

I don't think so... Open Secrets

Wall Street’s favorite Senate candidate in the past cycle was Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.). Booker took in nearly $2 million from Wall Street in his pair of Senate races in the past two years. The former Newark mayor is considered a friend to the bankers across the Hudson.

The noted defender of private equity garnered support from multiple hedge funds. Wall Street is just $34,000 short of being Booker’s top donor group, just after lawyers and law firms.

Goldman Sachs is sixth on Booker’s list of career donors, having contributed $59,600 to his campaigns.

He is also a shill for hedge funds who love them some charter schools.

Hildegard's picture

The last thing Hillary needs,

The last thing Hillary needs, with all the accusations against her of criminal wrongdoing (notwithstanding their incorrectness) is a running mate with even more accusations of criminal and ethical breaches. Her running mate needs to be unimpeachable.

jmcnair's picture

"unimpeachable"

Literally.

Knoxgal's picture

A Booker choice

A Booker choice would flip his seat to the Republicans. We just can't afford that.

mjw's picture

Look to the governors

It will not be Sherrod Brown (which is a shame). It will not be Cory Booker (maybe also a shame?). It could be Elizabeth Warren, but only because Massachusetts has a law which requires a special election to replace a senator. It could be Al Franken or Tim Kaine or cabinet members like Vilsack or Perez.

Tim Kaine puts me to sleep. I do not get the DC consensus on him. I'd love it to be Warren, but think she'd be way more effective staying in the senate. Al Franken is coming to be my best available option. Which is to say that he's not boring and he's a Democrat's Democrat, but he isn't someone that talk radio has spent the last five years building the right-wing crazies into a froth about.

Guess we'll find out soon enough.

Min's picture

I love the idea of Franken.

But I have to wonder if he is even on the radar as a potential choice.

mjw's picture

Kaine

Don't know yet who it's going to be, but I'm coming around on Tim Kaine. Been listening to the chit chat, and I think he'll be a good VP. Not an out of the box pick, not an exciting candidate, but a really solid Vice President. Think of him as the anti-Palin.

Hildegard's picture

Offshore drilling, banking

Offshore drilling, banking deregulation proponent. But other than that, he doesn't think you should kill inmates and or discriminate against people based on race, gender, religion. So he's got basic morals and Republican values. Sounds like a winner to me! Meanwhile the economy and the environment remain doomed. Yay us.

mjw's picture

Things I learned about Tim Kaine tonight

Things I learned about Tim Kaine tonight:

  • For much of his early career he was a civil rights lawyer. In Virginia. He worked on racial discrimination cases. As mayor of Richmond he won a huge settlement against an insurance company in a redlining case (for refusing to insure or vastly overcharging minority homeowners).
  • As governor of Virginia after the Virginia Tech mass shooting, he used his available executive power to extend background checks to prevent mentally ill from buying a gun and has advocated for further restrictions since then. VaTech seems to have been a bit of a turnaround for him, as he was considerably more pro-gun rights before that.
  • He's spent much of his time in the Senate trying to get the War Powers Act updated to limit presidents from waging war for years without Congress ever taking a vote on it.

Yes, he is wrong, wrong, wrong on off-shore drilling. I think there's some nuance in the banking thing, as from what I understand the banks he wants to lessen regulation on (not totally deregulate) are the small and regional banks, not CitiBank or Goldman Sachs. And with Sherrod Brown has the chairman of the Senate banking committee, that isn't going to happen anyway even if Hillary were inclined to agree with him, which she isn't.

But I'm sure there are other things that I will disagree with him on, just as there already are with Hillary and Bernie and even Elizabeth Warren. "Let not the perfect be the enemy of the good." The Democrats have made great strides this year in the progressive direction, but we have to win for anything to actually get done.

mjw's picture

Notice the quiet?

So Hillary is announcing any time now and not one leak is to be found anywhere. Remember the storm of stories that came out of the Trump "organization" about Pence. Everybody knew it would be him for almost a day before Trump "broke" the news (after they glued his fingers to his phone and told him they wouldn't let him go unless he got with the program).

Professional.

Average Guy's picture

Not sure Clinton keeps a

Not sure Clinton keeps a better secret is anything to promote.

We've had an African-American President.

Not sure why two women seems radical at this point.

And if it were Warren/Clinton I could have pulled the lever.

But, Johnson/Weld 2016.

A_Falk's picture

funny you should say

funny you should say "not one leak" today... #DNCLeaks dropped today

not that it is really any suprise to anyone that DNC was actively working against Sanders during the primary -- perhaps in the view of New Democrats, Sanders is outside the party, so -- go figure?

of course the next question -- why now, and who does this serve? :)
surely a putin-assange-snowden-trump-rnc conspiracy, amiright? oh my!

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