Best Realistic VP Candidate for Barack Obama?

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Gov. Janet Napolitano (AZ), I think. I've been tooting her horn for a while.

Also, Clark would be a supremely bad choice, in my opinion. He brings no experience really at all, and he doesn't have campaigning skills, either. He's sort of the Fred Thompson of 2004.

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Gov. Janet Napolitano (AZ), I think.

I don't see Obama picking a woman, but who knows? Napolitano would bring endless rumors and jokes of her being a lesbian the whole campaign season I bet.

Possibly, but aside from not being married, there's no evidence for her being a lesbian; it would just be in poor taste. In any case, I find it unlikely that very many people who'd refuse to vote for an unmarried woman would consider voting for Obama.

I do think he is likely to choose a woman, and there are no other woman governors who would make good VP candidates. Perhaps Sen. Blanche Lincoln (AR) could be his VP candidate instead.

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Gov. Janet Napolitano (AZ), I think.

I don't see Obama picking a woman, but who knows? Napolitano would bring endless rumors and jokes of her being a lesbian the whole campaign season I bet.

Possibly, but aside from not being married, there's no evidence for her being a lesbian; it would just be in poor taste. In any case, I find it unlikely that very many people who'd refuse to vote for an unmarried woman would consider voting for Obama.

I do think he is likely to choose a woman, and there are no other woman governors who would make good VP candidates. Perhaps Sen. Blanche Lincoln (AR) could be his VP candidate instead.

What about Gov. Kathleen Sebelius? She's a tough-talking, competent Governor from a plains state -- ironically, the same one Obama's mother was born in.

I just don't see Sebelius agreeing to it; same for a number of the others mentioned on here. Maybe I'm completely wrong on that.

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Why would Bloomberg end his reign as mayor of America's largest city for a job with significantly less power and convenience to him?

Isn't Bloomberg term-limited after 2009 anyway?  If so, he'd only be giving up a year as NYC mayor, right?

He is term-limited. I could see him agreeing to be a VP candidate, maybe. There are more likely choices.

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I know people will get on me about my Joementum stuff but Biden really would be Obama's best choice.  Obama's main weakness is his perception as inexperienced and who better to pick than a Senator of over thirty years to balance that out?

It also destroys the image of wanting to avoid the corruption of Washington.