OFFICIAL Vice President leaks, tips, and speculation thread

[Beet]

Another chartered flight to Delaware has been added, I think.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N96DK

Not sure if I really understand what this means though, but Ambinder just posted it on Twitter.

Biden must live in the boondocks of his state.

[Keystone Phil]

Another chartered flight to Delaware has been added, I think.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N96DK

Not sure if I really understand what this means though, but Ambinder just posted it on Twitter.

Biden must live in the boondocks of his state.

He lives just outside of Wilmington.

[Beet]

Another chartered flight to Delaware has been added, I think.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N96DK

Not sure if I really understand what this means though, but Ambinder just posted it on Twitter.

Biden must live in the boondocks of his state.

He lives just outside of Wilmington.

And he is supposed to be coming from his house? I must be missing something.

[12th Doctor]

If this is an anti-climax....

Exactly... unless Obama announces in an hour, this is a huge bust.

[Speed of Sound]

If this is an anti-climax....

Exactly... unless Obama announces in an hour, this is a huge bust.

Even if he does, if its Biden, its still mega anti-climax. That is painfully obvious even now, let alone 12 hours ago.

[Beet]

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Go out and enjoy your youth, whipper snappers.

[J. J.]

The Obama campaign has chosen one of the worst possible methods for choosing a VP candidate and Obama, possibly, has chosen the worst of the top tier candidates.

[12th Doctor]

Wow... they seriously aren't announcing tonight... mondo epic fail.

[Math]

Hum, the French Wikipedia already (and falesly) announces Bayh...

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Bayh

[12th Doctor]

This is the biggest VP epic fail since Eagleton.

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Hum, the French Wikipedia already (and falesly) announces Bayh...

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Bayh

While it is the 23rd in France, it's still the 22nd in the US.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I can't quite work out whether this delay is a stroke of genius or an awful, hubris-born error.

Obama blew it.

You guys are great!  No, seriously.  The only reason I'm even watching this on the Atlas is because I've been waiting for a chance to do laundry since noon.  I'm having trouble getting excited, and look how many freaking posts I have.

"Awful...error."  "Obama blew it."  How many permanent polling points did he just miss out on?  Five?  Ten?  Has his campaign died because he misses one day of non-questioning coverage?  No, sorry--because of a 24-hour delay, and potential slight smothering in the folds of the news cycle.

Meanwhile, America is mostly trying to decide between Burger King and McDonald's, and ready to set in for a weekend of pretending they already knew who Joe Biden/Evan Bayh/whoever was.  Is it a screw-up relative to what could have been?  Maybe.  And I guess in that sense he "blew it," but let's not seriously pretend we'll be thinking about this in a month.

That said, I'm 70% sure it's Biden.

I'm not quite making the argument that you think I am. It's not that I think that many people will be angry (or waiting in raptured anticipation; my point was double-edged). Both candidates are where they are today because of media hype and goodwill (it's not a coincidence that both fit nicely into feelgood storylines (or "lies", if you like things blunter) about defeating the legacy of official racism and Vietnam that the American media so obviously wants to peddle. I cite as proof the fact that McCain still has a career post-Keating and that Obama's balloon wasn't burst by associations with the Daley machine and that dodgy Rezko fellow; things that would have destroyed a candidate running on Hope And Change platform without the goodwill of the media, regardless of how far or not any insinuations relating to those associations might be...). That's all.

[Lunar]

Source: text will be sent tomorrow am, a few hrs before Obama speaks in Springfield.
-Ambinder

[Lunar]

Robert Gibbs cancels network morning appearances...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Who be Robert Gibbs [kveyshtun marcke]

[Mr. Morden]

Here's the story on Bayh and Kaine:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/22/1285183.aspx

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[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Who be Robert Gibbs [kveyshtun marcke]

Obama's communications director.

[Lunar]

Who be Robert Gibbs [kveyshtun marcke]

Obama's communications director.

And the #3 person in his campaign.

[Reluctant Republican]

FOX is also reporting about Kaine not being the pick at least.

[J. J.]

That explains pulling out of Va.

[YRABNNRM]

I can't believe this is still under wraps.

[Speed of Sound]

I can't believe this is still under wraps.

If its Biden, they can cut it out now, its over. Really.

[YRABNNRM]

I can't believe this is still under wraps.

If its Biden, they can cut it out now, its over. Really.

Still though, the fact that there hasn't been some huge break is incredible.

Even in 2004, we had the reports of Edwards cutting his Disney World vacation short to meet with Kerry a few days earlier.

[Sbane]

I can't believe this is still under wraps.

If its Biden, they can cut it out now, its over. Really.

What's up with your hate of Biden? As long as he doesn't make a gaffe till November, he is an excellent choice who helps Obama with older democrats.

[Speed of Sound]

I can't believe this is still under wraps.

If its Biden, they can cut it out now, its over. Really.

What's up with your hate of Biden? As long as he doesn't make a gaffe till November, he is an excellent choice who helps Obama with older democrats.

.....No, I mean if its Biden theres no point of hiding cause everyone is already sure it is him. I do hate him though.