Obama Has Chosen Running Mate, Media Unable to Confirm Choice
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The campaign of Sen. Barack Obama has announced the senator from Illinois has chosen his running mate, but Obama says he will not disclose the choice before informing his supporters via text message. The media are scrambling to weed out what information is available, eliminating names from the widely acknowledged “short list”, as confirmation comes they are not the running mate.
So far, CNN has reported confirming with sources close to each of the following individuals that Gov. Tim Kaine, Sen. Evan Bayh and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are not the choice. The focus has begun to close in on Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, who was one of the “short list” of heavily vetted candidates, and whose rhetoric and foreign policy views —as many analysts have observed— have begun filtering into Obama’s speeches.
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Around midnight, Friday into Saturday, it was announced that reporters had observed that Secret Service had been despatched to the home of Sen. Biden, most likely a de facto confirmation that he was in fact part of a presidential ticket. The campaign of Sen. Obama has not yet confirmed Biden’s having been chosen to be Obama’s running mate, and insists the announcement will be made to supporters on Saturday, by text message.
Biden, then running for the Democratic nomination, had criticized Obama, questioning his experience, but the two have worked closely together, and are considered to have a positive working relationship. Obama, who taught Constitutional law at the University of Chicago, is said to deeply respect Biden’s work on the Senate judiciary committee, a level of experience that may lend real weight to his experience in legal theory, and in practice.
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