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Biden would be good, though I expected MORE of a surprise... like a Wes Clark or (for real surprise and shock) Chuck Hagel....

But Biden is good...

Wes Clark would be better, imo... given his military career and no "insider" politician baggage. Tough on McCain, too.

Why don't we just take all the politicians who lost in the primaries of both parties and draw a name out of the hat? All these president want to be's would jump at the chance to be on a ticket in November. Maybe, however, people should keep in mind why these guys (and Hillary) lost in the primaries.

hard truths said "don't vote for (insert Democrat here)…..he'll raise taxes and throw a welfar party" is either uninformed, blissfully connected to 1980's political ideology, or both. Even in the face of numerous debacles over the past 8 years…this is the best you can come up with? Welfare? Taxes? Woe is us……"

Hard Truths...I am in total and complete agreement. and has anyone noticed that only Obama gets the "welfare" label? Hmm wonder why that is..... It just CANT be about his race.

Rick Warren lied yesterday when he told Larry King that his audience was half in favor of Barack, and half in favor of McCain. I think the American people could tell from the applause lines that it was mostly for McCain. Rick was trying to pretend his forum was “fair and balanced”, which is was not.

So Barack just happened to lose the coin toss, and McCain just happened to be OUT of the building when Barack was speaking. I don't think so. Also when asked if the candidates were present for the coin toss, which would have been the best thing to do, Rick said, "No, it was just me and my staff". His Republican staff, give me a break.

Coming in on the heels of your unbelievable pandering to the lowest common denominator with your "Bigfoot" coverage, I can't help but wonder, "what has happened to CNN?"

Here I am, in 2008, seeing a headline covering the first serious black candidate we've ever had in this country, that is so racist I just can't fathom how it got through your editors.

"Shout out?"

Are you kidding me? You should be ashamed.

Honestly, I don’t know what I think about this possibility yet. All I know is that Obama needs someone out there getting on McCain and his camp for all the crap they’ve said. Where are all the democrats at? They should be getting on McCain too, but none of them are saying anything. Hopefully by the convention they will finally start coming to Obama’s defense.

and Bayou Joe it's "Barack" not "Barak"

"He can't pick any other woman but Hilllary so another NO there."

Believe it or not, Hillary is not the only qualified woman out there! You need to do more research.

McVietcong deserves to be put back in his bamboo cage at the Hanoi Hilton and set out in the jungle to rot. That's were he belongs. That reflects the depth of his betrayal for embracing human garbage like Karl Rove, Rick Davis, and Steve Schmidt. It will not win him the presidency, only a permanent place in the gallery of American rouges and misfits.

McCain talks about the Surge in Iraq or tactics but not about why the US started the war in Iraq. McCain voted to start the war! He can't turn back now – he can't Change and Obama offers CHANGE.
McCain may be pro-life but ... he squanders American lives in Iraq in a war where victory is claimed but never defined, and especially not in relation to the rationale and mission cited in Invading Iraq.
Now the US can't even help Georgia because of the Bush/McCain policies – and yet McCain says "We are all Georgians!" McCain might know something about war (he was captured by the Viet Cong) but not about winning that war or ending this one. Much as I used to respect McCain, McCAIN HAS NOW BECOME GEORGE BUSH! TIME FOR CHANGE!
Mike

Obama picks Biden I vote for him. Otherwise, his lack of Foreign Policy experience and apparent naivety in that arena is way too scary for me to support in this day and age.

I want to support barack, but his lack of FP experience is a deal breaker imo. Biden gives him instant credibility. Joe is the best FP mind in gov't today.

OBAMA/BIDEN 08

Biden is Obamas only choice. Hillary will be putting 3 people in the white house trying to run the country, he cant pick a republican cause the deomcrats arent fully unified yet, Tim Kaine is too much like Obama, inexpierence and new and he cant pick me cause I like my job. Biden has a slick tongue to deal with the republicans and his foreign expierence is something obama needs. As long as Biden isnt having an affair or is on tape like Wright than its his best bet.

If it aint Clinton, I am not voting for Hussein Obama.

we need to rebuild the U.S.A, Obama!!!
stop promising to send my tax dollars over seas!
bring our troops home, and end our imperialism!

GO OBAMA! Joe Biden is your best choice. Can't wait to hear the news of your decision!

So let it be said; so let it be written; and soon it will be done......Joe Biden is the VP candidate.......considering the market of VP potentials.....Biden is by far the best.

Race over if McCain chooses a woman?

Hardly.

GOP voters don't like women being the boss. And they know the VP is a heartbeat away from the office of big cheese.

They know McCain is fragile and they realize that there would be a VERY REAL CHANCE that a (gulp) woman would be in office.

It simply doesn't matter who is chosen as veep. The choice will not affect the election results in either direction. It will only affect the speculators who, for the large part, are members of the media.

I was watching McCain on TV yesterday and he stated that we were winning the war and victory will be soon. How can you declare victory for a war that have already been won. Well if I am not mistaking but didn't Bush declare "Misson Accomplised" about 2yrs ago? I am very confused!

Joe Biden is awesome! I'd love if he got the nomination. He's tough and he'd need to be to handle our Congress!

Instead of looking for someone that can balance the ticket picking Biden will be a costly mistake and I hope for the sake of this country BO makes the right choice. As I see it BO got the press in his pocket for now and they are using this to it's full potential but the numbers should be better for the for him and it's not happening.

Not trying to unify the party and attempting to get this with half of us and lacking in the party base is beyond comprehension. Oh well I guess I will have to vote Republican come November.... It makes me sick to the stomach all the racial accusations from the bloggs just because I am making a decision base on the mans stances and lack of experience and in my mind the least of BO problems is the color of his skin. In fack is to his advantage.

Wesley Clark will be the nominee.

Joe Biden would bring two things to the campaign... experience which is what most people think Barack is weak on and aggressiveness. Barack is trying to not be seen as the 'angry black man' which is a role that will sink him. He is very good at being the nice guy, I mean who responds to an attack by complimenting his opponent? I do have to say that's part of Barack that makes me like him but Joe Biden is an agressive bulldog that can go after McCain in a way Barack cannot. Remember the response to Guilliani about only knowning a noun, verb and 9/11?

YE-HA!!!!! Let Biden lose on the McCrack Camp.. I can not wait until he is announced and for the debates. Biden takes no guff. I CAN NOT WAIT FOR THE DEBATES!!!

Biden will be a good choice though I think that Obama need some like him or Ms. Clinton to scare off the attack dogs of the buffoon McCain.

Bayou Joe
You were not going to vote for Obama anyway and by the way it was the so called liberals who got us the 40 hour work week work compensation rights,vacations GI bill,bell grants medicare and medicaid the list go on and on.

Why do we have to re-build Georgia when Russia destroyed it?? What about the people in this country.

It seems that Obama is running for President in Georgia.

Worry about your own people first, don't get like Bush!

Stop Kissing the wrinkled face of McFace. Say what you mean and mean what you say and gut out the old fish and go sit in the White House. America and the world hate kiss-ups. Slam him like Billary did you. Why do you think that she is still standing? Stop being so soft.

If the Dems are so proud that they are Not a White Party, Why doesn't Obama pick a person of color? Any color but white! Maybe Howard Dean; LOL

ANYBODY BUT HILLARY CLINTON.....AND TO THE PEOPLE WHO SAY THERE ARE 18 MILLION STRONG FOR HRC....I THINK YOU NEED TO CHECK THE NUMBERS NOW....IT IS NOT 18 MILLION ANYMORE BECAUSE THE 18 MILLION WITH THEIR INTELLECT IN TACK HAVE GONE TO OBAMA....SO THE LAST I CHECKED ACCORDING TO THE POLLS IN CNN & ETC...THE 18 MILLION HAVE SHRUNK TO 2 MILLION....

OBAMA '08

Magoo is getting a completely free ride from the press. Obama gets tons of coverage, but it's all negative. The republicans play the media everyday.

CNN allows the Obamamaniacs to call McCain every name under the sun but don't dare to mention Obamas real birth name Hussein because your comment will be left in moderation limbo.

obama/powell....surprise you would not see coming.

So Barry wants to help rebuild Georgia, but not Iraq (a country we destroyed). Barry wants to give 1 billion dollars, which we don't have. Wake up people, our children's, children's, children's, children's can't afford this man. If I close my eyes maybe I will wake up and it will be 2012 and we will have a REAL choice for President, not these 2 yahoos

Let the Russian rebuilt Georgia since they destroyed it. Otherwise , the russians will wipe it out a week later- no investment=I don't care in Russia.

Why not just wait the few days until he announces the person and stop all the speculation.
If he wins, we will have to hear about the VP for 4 years. If he loses, then who cares.

Bayou Joe These two deserve each other. For the first time in my life I will be voting for a Republican....Who cares Puma

Gen. Wesley Clark – leadership, character, intelligence, excellent education, formal education and hands-on experience in military and foreign policy issues.

Obama/Clark '08

Who's advising this guy? Hillary Clinton all the way. What is he thinking? She's a sure bet for a win in Nov.

I wanted Webb. I think we have to go with Hillary. She has strong following with Dems, Repubs and Indys. I think if we can get Barack in for two terms and Hillary in for another two the country will be back on top again.

I'd prefer Bayh personally, but understand we can't lose a senate replacement to a Republican Governor. I think Biden would make a good candidate to dish out some severe tongue lashings, which is something the Obama team could use. If not for VP, he should at least handle PR responses.

Let me be clear, Obama is self serving, arrogant, shallow and will do anything to win this office. All that he's done in Illinois is run for office (he won the Senate seat by defeating R-Alan Keyes whom any child could of beat). It's time he does some work for the money we pay him here in Illinois. It seems like every other year he's running for office of something other than what he's in.

Will Biden help this ticket? No.....If Biden wants to keep his own political career vibrant he will not accept the offer.

It would be a good choice. We need a few billion to fully check and fix the cracks in our current bridges and levees before sending billions to georgia in the soviet union.

Where does all this money to fight in Iraq come from if we are in such debt?

This whole politics thing is really getting old. Announce your vp already.

Where is Westly Clark?
It will be the best of all VP.

Biden is an excellent choice.... Remember this is America.... you vote the canidate of your choice.... Obama/Biden ticket is good for America and the World.... McCain and whoever is not good – not so much..... However that is my way of thinking..... I just think that McCain will be Bush 3rd term in office.... if you are okay with the state of America then vote for McCain it is really simple – just like McCain simple none thought provoking answers to any questions that one may ask of him.... hey Bush has let it be known it doesn't take a great intellect to become President (sad but true statement) and Americans appears to vote for the less intelligent person & look what mess we are in now.... still the vote is yours... vote wrong 1 time shame on you, vote wrong twice shame on yourself, vote wrong three times.... seek higher education or at least HS diploma ...

ok.. so let me get this straight.. As a fellow Democrat it's my understanding that all this time Obama has run on the idea that Washington is broken and he can bring the change we need right? So why is be going to possibly pick one of the biggest congressional figures ( Biden ) to possibly be his VP? This is very troubling to me and seems like a step back instead of a leap forward.

Are you democrats finally getting the picture? Obama is their boy !! Their puppet !! The losers who always wanted to be president but couldn't make it. Kennedy, Kerry and Biden. Then throw in those two idiots Nancy and Harry and you have OUR NEXT PRESIDENT. Obama is just the boy who will carry the message. CHANGE?? Oh, you'll get change alright. And you will pay for it dearly......and pay and pay and pay some more.
Obama has no balls. His wife has them. Europe and Russia are laughing their butts off. Do you think that any Euorpean country would elecrt a black man to run their country. No, they would not. Do you think we should. Yes, in maybe twenty or thirty years. But not now. Not this one. If you would just look you can see right through him.

If Joe Biden is top of the ticket I may vote for the ticket
Obama never get my vote
Hillary 08 or Mc Cain 08

Great choice for VP.

Well we had nice great family guys like Bush and Mcain. What have they done to the country and to the world ? They killed thousands of inocent IRAQUIS and destroyed the americas economy. BinLaden still at large...

When we hear all of McCains crap you know Rove is back at his
evil ways..Joe Biden, he one of the most hard working people in the Congress and that would be a great pick for Mr.Obama.I'm 51 years young and I'm tired of Bushes and Roves of the United States..We need a change from the same old BS.. Central Pa loves Obama !!!!!

Give Georgia 1 billion dollars? What for? Why would US pay for their stupidity? Has anyone (Iraqi's or Saudi's ) paid for our own stupidity?
I don't think so.

PLEASE - NOT BIDEN!!!

CHANGE FOR AMERICA DOES NOT INCLUDE THE PERSONALITY OF JOE BIDEN. THE DEMOCRATS HAVE RUINED THE MOMENTUM THEY WORKED SO HARD TO BUILD!

Where is the billion dollars, that Obama wants to spend rebuilding Georgia, going to come from? We already have an unbelievable national debt and ongoing budget deficit spending. We cannot afford to continue to spend money we don't have. Even if we did have an extra one billion tucked away somewhere for a rainy day, why wouldn't we spend it on our problems instead of on a far away country that has no love, loyalty, or value to us?

cnn newroom reporting the new are showing Mc cain slaming Obama five time more to one of Obama rebutter. in a hour 9;30 til 10;30 tue morning let,s play faire.

CNN:

You've been PUNKED! Idiots!

Panamania McCain has forgotten how Bush tried to destroy his character when he first ran for president (how soon we forget). Yet, like all Republicans he chooses do use the same old tactics for the same old politics. What's worse is that you have so called Americans that did not get enough of Bush and will vote for the Panamanian.

Obama is a prime example of judgement and integrity and is still married to his first wife who is not a drug addict.

Bayou Joe: come outta the swamp and wise up – since when is a bad thing to help the less fortunate by reforming the inequitable tax structure and diverting funds from ill-advised wars to US interests? Do you like the sickening mismanagment of your tax money today? These guys are looking out for American people as opposed to special interests – and, providing they take a balanced budget approach,...cannot be liberal enough!

Good choice for foreign policy & Obama is a wimp & needs an attack dog like Biden --BUT-- bad choice if he wants to win this election.

I'm looking forward to watching Biden push McCain's buttons. Those who know McCain are pretty clear that he's a hothead whose emotions get the best of him–not the kind of president I want. He comes from the military culture that is aching for a fight, and you can see that in his response to the Georgia situation–not what we need now, in this world. We need someone who can think under pressure, like Obama.

There is no comparison between Biden and Cheney. Obama is not going to do anything that will deprive the American people, it is not his character nor is it his underlining purpose as to why his is running for President.

I honestly believe Obama is going to make the right choice on his VP choice and will not pick someone like Cheney. That would defeat the whole purpose of his candidacy.

Obama has common sense and good judgment and will pick someone who has got the same. Cheney doesn't have these traits.

Obama = President
Evan Bayh as VP

Joe Biden as Secretary of State

Al Gore as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

Bill Richardson as Secretary of Energy

Hillary Clinton as Secretary of Health and
Human Services

To Sacto Joe. Actually, they're either 1) not critical thinkers or 2) just plain ignorant buffoons.

Obama said "My Friend". Sounds like McCain. Obama wants to send more money across the pond. $1 Billion?? God help us. Biden has white hair. OMG. He's too old.

Hillary supporters are such babies. They're crying because she didn't win, and they don't blame her for running a lousy campaign, they blame Barack. They're a bunch of sore losers who don't deserve the time of day. Yes I want a woman president someday, just not that woman.

Also, I think anyone would be crazy to vote for McCain, who is a ghost walking around right now. He's mimicking everything George Bush says–straight down the party line. A party who gave us a war, exorbitant spending, foreclosures, and $4.00 a gallon gas does not deserve my attention, or my vote. It’s unbelievable how naive some people can be. This is not a football game where you choose sides for the fun of it, we're talking about the blood of American soldiers. Grow up.

Why should we give Georgia $1B? How bout all politicians stop GIVING MY MONEY AWAY! Doesn't seem like so much to ask.

Oh, they have a pipeline there? Oh, well then, that's different. Jeez.

It amaze me that people are thinking and commenting on Barack and Biden as though they are nothing. Well for those of you that are thinking the country is going to taxes and welfare, what state is the country in right now? We are in so much debt, the economy is at an all time low, we are in a recession, gas prices are still high. I guess all of this was brought on by the fairy godmother. Get a grip Bush, McCain is on the same team so all you democrats that think McCain is going to do the job you are in for a rude awakening. If McCain gets in the Whitehouse the U S is heading to hell while He and Cindy sits on top of the world. THINK!!!!

Women vote is crucial to win this election. So I agree with most people here. If obama chooses Biden, McCain will simply choose a woman to close the deal.

Get over it Bayou Joe...Clinton WILL NOT BE ON THE TICKET!!

Sanco Joe. I guess we should vote out everyone who voted for the war then, because they all showed bad judgement. So there were 28 Democratic Senators who voted yes, including Clinton, Biden, Kerry, Feinstein and Edwards. i guess they all need to go too. Fair is fair. You Dems would like to forget it was a bipartisan vote. Kerry even defended his yes vote in the 2004 election. Obama never had to take a tough political stand. He wasn't in the Senate then, so it's easy to say he oppoed the war. Well, he DID oppose the surge, saying it would never work. What about his failed judgement there? McCain went against his own party to push for more troops and was proven right. The hypocritical Democrats make me sick.

I don't think I agree that Biden should be VP. He could do better, and if McCain does choose a woman...uh oh. I like Richarson or Kerry. That is a team we all can be proud of.

By the way – John McCain voted for the Bear DNA bill he now ridicules.

Therefore, he must be ridiculing himself.

He has nothing to offer America but attacks, smears, lies amd much more war.

How can this country trust an adulterer, if he has shown no character.

Im with Bayou Joe!!!!!

Two loosers.

Only way I'd vote for this weasel is with Hillary as VP. That said I guess I'll be voting for McCain. I'd rather vote with someone honest, to the point, realistic, and not pandering to the disillusioned by feeding them sugar coated fluffy lies just to get elected. I didn't drink the Koolaid then and I surely am not in November.

NOBAMA!!!

Hillary for VP or vote for McCain who actually fought for his country and has the balls to make tough decisions, not popular ones!

Biden advocates a sensible resolution to Bush's Folly.

I think we are completely over due for a real honest look at John McCain. The Republicans have crafted a very simple, very transparent strategy. First John McCain's image: POW/ War Hero, then Straight Talk/ Political Maverick. The flip side of this is Obama's image: Elitist, arrogant, not "American" enough, not Patriotic.

The second part is to keep things focused on Obama, not McCain.
It's pretty simple. The strategy depends heavily on the lack of curiosity of the news media. It depends heavily on the news media playing along with this very narrow focus. In fact, it depends on the news media doing the heavy lifting for McCain. As far as I'm concerned, the news media has been guilty of criminal negligence for the past eight years. YOu have let the American peolpe down and you have a serious credibility problem. The mainstream media is pretty irrelevant. Thank God we have other options and access to information thru other sources.

I am a registered Republican and for the first time in 42 years of voting, I will be casting for my vote for a Democrat President. I support Barack Obama and I am ashamed of the dirty tricks of the GOP. My father would be spinning in his grave if he knew where his once great party is heading.

How can McCain charge Obama with putting his political ambitions ahead of the good of the country, when McCain has changed his position on everything from Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy to offshore drilling in a blatant attempt to pander for this election?

Obama's the one who spoke out against the Iraq war, putting his political life on the line for what he believed was the good of the country (and it turns out he was right.)

On a side note, I'm getting tired of hearing Bush called the "worst President in American history". That's not true. Andrew Jackson was worse.

Who is going to pay for this 1 Billion fix?

Biden looks like a solid choice. I especially like the way Barak refuses to play McCain's angry game of lies. Americans have had enough the the Rove/Cheney smear machine. The fact that McCain is embracing it is now starting to hang around his neck like a millstone. McCain is acting like a desperate man.

Don't you mean VP candidate? Has he been elected already?

But yeah, I agree that I'd prefer Richardson. Or even Hillary, frankly – and I thought she ran a despicable campaign. Choosing an old DC guy like Biden kind of DOES zap the energy out of a campaign like the one Obama's run.

First time in my life that I will be voting straight republican. barrack hussein obama and his supporters make me sick on the stomach.

I would consider voting for obama if he picked joe biden.

I disagree with your comment Bayou Joe. If anything should be turning your stomach it should be the fact that our government is in shambles. People are losing their homes, we can't afford filling our tanks with gas and that is not mentioning the cost of heating your homes this winter. How many elderly people who can not afford food to buy their medicine will now not properly heat themselves? The thing that makes me sick to my stomach is the fact that you are so blinded and misguided you would vote for another term of George Bush's failed policies. Please our country is not going in the wrong direction...our country has gone in the wrong direction. So voting for McCain turns my stomach.

I love reading these comments and seeing how, depending on the story, people either start yelling that CNN is biased against Obama, or conversly, in love with Obama and anti-McCain.

Get it straight folks, all the media cares about, and this includes CNN, is keeping things interesting so you will KEEP READING AND WATCHING. They are pro-whatever candidate is behind at that second, in order to keep things close.

Open up your one sided party-worshiping eyes and realize you're all Americans. Not Democrats and Republicans... AMERICANS.

Biden it is thats great Biden will rip the republicans apart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I may still be on CNN's no post list (for no reason I've been able to surmise), but Biden would be an excellent VP.

Bayou Joe: You post here a lot. From your previous posts, it's highly doubtful you have EVER voted for a Democrat. Posters like you who post false messages in feeble attempts to try to sway voters to Republicans are pathetic.

bayou joe, you are so ridiculous-the FIRST time you vote republican, my @$$!!!!!!!!! you are as conservative as they come, and it's always been very clear that you get your "news" from FOX, etc...

people always try to make there opinion mor pronounced take Bayou Joe for example he says for the first time in his life he's voting republican... Translation: I have never voted before and am not regidtered but I'll say this cause I don't like Obama. Everybody needs to calm down and judge these men on the issues. On the issues Obama comes out on top. I don't hate McCain or even want to begin to specuulate how he's linked to Bush. The truth is he's not going to be a good leader based on his policies... policies are a test of judgement caus ethey are initially formed way before you even know you're a true contender for the nomination let alone the presidency. America don't get personal and start picking apart character. There is much more than we know now at stake.

Obama/ (I don't care who the second guy is cause I like the first) 08'

C'mon now Billy Bob Bayou Joe, it's not the first time you'll be voting Republican. I guarantee. You Republicans who come on this site and say "As a lifelong Democrat..." Or "For the first time in my life..." crack me up. Who do you think you're fooling?

God I hope Obama is stupid enough to pick Biden as his running mate, it means victory for McCain in November!

It's so plain, mccain already new all the questions that would be asked, what a set up, what happened to honesty and intergrity, Obama still shined.

All of McSeniles supporters and McSenile are living in a bubble, if you think he is going to control spending with Dems in control of the house and senate. So how do you think he is going to pay for this war and all the others he will be waging?How is he going to pay for all of ther diabled troops ? Why doesn't the media and the conservatives ask him to pledge the famous line of Bush 41, NO NEW TAXES!!!!! OBAMA/BIDEN 08
Connie from Indiana

Anyone who still believes, like Bayou Joe, that "taxes and welfare" are the pre-eminent issues our nation faces in 2008 should have their voting rights revoked. The stale, tired rhetoric of "don't vote for (insert Democrat here).....he'll raise taxes and throw a welfar party" is either uninformed, blissfully connected to 1980's political ideology, or both. Even in the face of numerous debacles over the past 8 years...this is the best you can come up with? Welfare? Taxes? Woe is us......

More lies from McCain. Biden will make a great veep, and will protect our individual rights unlike the republicans who will be satisfied with nothing less than a camera in your bedroom.

The Republicans have been equating patriotism with doing it their way without question for years. As in everything else the Bush administration has done, this flies in the face of what the Founding Fathers' definition of patriotism was when they crafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
McCain has the temerity to question Obama's patriotism, and in doing so is creating fear in the minds of stupid people. McCain should be spanked and stood in a corner until he learns to behave. As Keith Oberlman said last night in his show, "Mr. McCain....Grow UP!"

Bayou Joe,

Sorry to read your sentiments. If Republicans now house your values then you are doing the right thing. We are so far "right" now that we need to counterbalance this nation.

I for one cannot stomach more of the RNC dictatorship we have been oppressed with for the last 8 years.

Of course we need to help the Georgians, no matter who is in office. Edmund Burke (the English statesman under 'Mad' King George that oppossed his tyrannanical policy towards 'The Colonies.') said it best:

"All that is necessary for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing"

To allow Georgia to become the 2008 verision of the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia in 1938, or the Czechoslovakia of 1968, would lead to disaster for all of the former Soviet states.

If you don't stand for something then you'll fall for anything.

Although, all the MSM feel Biden will be Obama's VP-I expect he'll pick someone no one has even thought of yet..

And to Joe Bayou. The word "liberal" is better suited to the Bush/McCain 8 years of fiscal mismanagment in which national debt has doubled, we're in two wars, millions are losing their homes, 48 million have no health care and the country has the lowest reputation abroad ever achieved.

So if you want 8 more years of the same, go right ahead and vote for McCain.

Dumb (Biden) and Dumber (Obama)

One from IL and one from Delaware. They'll have no chance of carrying any battleground states in the beltway.

Neither Biden or Obama has ever been able to connect to voters' plight economically, they're going to lose swing states like OH and PA. Dem is toasted.

And of course, Obama is toasted to me long before any VP is chosen. I've picked McCain right when Clinton was forced out.

biden would be an excellent choice! it would take care of the GOP's pathetic attack on obama's age and "experience". yeah, cuz the "experience" of bush/cheney/rummy/rove/stevens/craig/vitter/helms/cunningham/ad nauseum paid off SO WELL for this country!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know why John McCain supposedly has such "credibility" on foreign issues. This is a guy who repeatedly did not know the difference between Shia and Sunni in Iraq, thought Afghanistan borders Iraq and thinks Czechoslovakia is a country. Now the media acts as if McCain has the answers now that the Bush administration's short sighted policy of trying to encircle Russia by meddling in the former Soviet republics blows up in thier faces. Amazing!

I think Biden will be a great VP.....Obama is good mand so is Biden

I agree with Bayou Joe. If America is going to vote Democratic this time around because GWB gets blamed for EVERTHING... then we will have more taxes and more welfare.

Biden is OK but he brings nothing to the ticket other than foreign policy experience, which is good, but Obama needs more than that. I'm not planning on voting for him anyway, but I don't see any excitment over this. Besides, Biden is from the most pointless state in the Union.

Biden has more gravitas than Obama. Obama NEEDS that to win. The problem is just about everybody in DC has more gravitas than Obama...including McCain. This was clearly demonstrated Sunday in that so called forum where Obama would only participate if he did not have to face McCain directly. Obama should really pick Hillary to give him the best chance.

I don't get it, why are we responsible for the reconstruction of Georgia? We didn't do the destruction. With our economy in the shape it is in now, they should be worrying more about the American people and trying to rebuild at home. I'm tired of paying for everyone elses messes.

Of course Barack loves America.

Also, I heard Rick Warren last night and wonder if anyone else heard him call Barack Obama, Osama. I'm going to watch the tape again tonight.

If Biden is on the ticket...Dems lose again. He has a terrible temper...He is arrogant to a huge fault and people will not like him...This will be a big big mistake. Mark my words...Obama + Biden = McCain in the Whitehouse.

Shame on CNN for trying to run the election. You are not giving carrots to the presidential candidates, they give YOU the carrots, horse. Stop trying to play the game the other way around, it makes you look less like a news source and more like a reality television show.

celebrity love the suspense is killing me.....WHY DOESN'T HE DEBATE HIS V P CHOICE FOR PRACTICE..... when mc cain gets a hold of him... that will be the end of speculations..HOW'S THAT BOOK GOING...DUE 09.09/08

Perfect. This is no time to appease and kiss-bum. It’s a partner you are choosing and it should be someone who is squarely in your coroner. Excellent choice

Richardson isn't white enough & was Hillary's choice so that's a NO. Bayh doesn't have any experience to offer the ticket (one with no experience is enough for one ticket).
He can't pick any other woman but Hilllary so another NO there.
Hagel is anti-choice and anti-equality so that wouldn't be a smart move for Obama to pick him.
Clark .. who?
So, that kinda leaves Biden or Dodd .. at least they showed interest in the office by running. Either one fits the 'white guy' bill.

I was hoping for Evan Bayh, much more cross-over appeal to independents and moderate republicans than Biden will have. I like Biden, just don't think this will do much to attract the ever-important fence-sitters and independents.

Bayou Joe – We pay more taxes now with Republicans in the white house and have nothing to show for it. We have a trillion dollar national debt and we owe China of all places in the billions. '

If this is the kind of program that America wants because you refuse to vote differently than the old white guy then that is what we will get 4 more years of!

Bayou Joe: Who truly cares who you will vote for? I'm sure any Democrat or Liberal is too whatever for you. Bury you head in the sand and vote for McCain. He's a good man, but a bad politician under Bush and Cheney, and all the swift-boaters. Go ahead.

But as you pull that lever, think of the viral state of these here United States. Think of what got us here. If you are satisfied, pull that lever.

You must be fortunate to salary more the 150K per year. That's the only reason you rail against higher taxes. You got it.

Hillary is the way to go for a VP.

My first choice was Powell, however I will settle for Biden.

Cry baby McCain actually is complaining about media bias when all he gets is good bias press from fox,cnn,abc,and the washington post. Give me a break.

Biden would be a great choice from the Republicans point of view.

He is a library full of sounds bites for McCain adds. This guy is an all time great at not thinking before he speaks. There is an vault full of tapes of stupid things he has said to go with all the stupid things he will say. I'm hoping Obama picks this nut.

Why are we funding the rebuilding of Georgia rather than pressuring the Russians to do so?
There are a lot of infrastructure needs in the USA that could use that proposed $1.000,000,000.00

Senator Obama should continue to call out the R's lie machine. These folk's have deluded the American people for far to long. They represent the greatest threat to our country, an attack from within.

You know you have got to love these politicians on either side of the aisle. It is always amazing how much they really or alike on being so free spirited with the working americans tax dollars. Obama is a typical politician who shares these same views as all the rest. He wants to send 1 billion dollars to Georgia and also 800 billion to the african countrys if he is elected. What is so different about this man. I do not like either canidate but at least John McCain does not hate america, white people and does not have friends that are terriost nor did he belong to a black liberation church.

Oh sure, let's spend a billion dollars cleaning up somebody else war while going into debt on our own. Outrageous.

Biden would be a good choice. His knowledge and straight manner will enforce Obama's understanding, thoughtfulness and good judgment.

PLEASE EVERYONE ........WRITE IN HILLARY

Biden is a great choice. He would have made a great POTUS if our citizenry could only handle hearing the truth.

his pick will be wes clark or colin powell.

Biden is a good choice, but once again, it won't matter who the VP running with Senator Obama turns out to be. Senator McBush can't do anything except launch scurrilous attacks without any substance.

His comments at the VFW convention about how much he supported Veterans was laughable considering his votes AGAINST additional funding for Veterans programs.

It's no wonder active duty military people are donating to Obama at a 6 to 1 ratio of donations to Senator McBush.

It should be fun to see two flip flopers on the ticket.

McCain 08/Clinton 12

who gives a flying fig? it does not matter whom NoBama chooses, I would never waste a vote on that empty suit.

John McCain was tortured as a POW but he thinks our country should use torture.
Does that mean that John McCain gave up U.S. secrets to the enemy when he was tortured?

It's ridiculous, that Dem is choosing a novice as the nominee, who's scrambling to find all the props he can get to boost his own non-experience.

Why would we think that Obama would be a better president than, say, Biden who has more wit and experience? (Or for that matter, McCain, or Clinton, or fill-in-the-blank.) Obama was chosen all because of his age and race, in order for Dean and Pelosi to make history.

Alas, since when do we attribute (or punish) those who have experience? Since when do we choose someone for a job primarily because s/he has no exposure whatsoever?

Voters are nervous about Obama not only because he's "different", but that his POSITIONS are different every time you inspect him. How could we vote for a guy who flip-flops at every turn?

Bayou Joe: wow you are going to make the biggest mistake of your life.

looser with looser........... We are democrat and we will vote for McCain this time and Hillary next time...... Obama will be disaster for the country ..... Nooooooooooooooo Obama

Go Biden!

Oh let me see lets give the VP slot to a person who got a few votes and dropped out and think we will WIN this year. Lets forget about the person who got the most votes along with the nominee becausewe dont need her 18 million voters.
All I have to say is I hope at least half of her 18 million stick to their guns and stay the course. Hillary all the way.

I think it's great to have Biden on the ticket and have felt that way since the primaries were finally over. Biden would make a far better running mate than HRC. I agree totally with Sacto Joe.

OBAMA 08!

O.K. CNN, Why did you name it as "Obama gives a shout-out". You want to portray it like he walked on stage using slang and yelling "Yo, I wanna give a shout out to my man Biden".

Anyway, that aside, I look forward to finding out who Mr. Obama chooses as his VP.

Soon you will be Mr. President Obama

You do not need to speak for McCain. Speak for Barack Obama. Everyone knows what John McCain is about, War, War and more War. McCain can't answer a question without injecting his war experience.

Give it a rest! Obama is more patriotic than McCain................

Please stop throwing billions of our taxpayer money around like it is your personal credit card.

This is such an exciting race, having said that, I also have to say I can't wait until it's over, so President Obama can get to work cleaning up the mess the GOP has made of things.

Can't wait to hear Sen. Biden named as VP !!.

Obama/Biden '08

Barack, don't you want to wait until the Russians leave first? And this $1 billion for Geogia is being re-directed from what domestic program here stateside? Barack Obama, just another no change politician.

This was a great speech that really lifted my morning. How dare McCain try to win an election by questioning Obama's motives for his country. If McCain wants to be our president, he better tell us what he'll do for us.

Where's the Beef McCain??? Don't just try to make me scared of high taxes and Russians. How are you going to get me health care? How are you going to help hungry kids in the ghettos? How are you going to follow Bin Laden to the "gates of hell" without even following him to Afghanistan, let alone Pakistan? How much more of my taxes are you going to spend in Iraq so Haliburton can take their oil, and then charge us even more for it??????

I am so happy my beloved OBAMA is getting tough with McFrankenstein. It is about time

what is a poor country boy to do. I don't have confidence in any of the candidates, they lack any specific coverage of the issues that make the difference. I don't care about color, whether one can wrap themselves in a flag till they have clevage.Nor do I hear specifics only trust me, or how they will give the tax payer real relief. Not 1k or no new taxes, we need job programs that wil create jobs which will stimulate the economy, lower med Insurance not roasters bantering about who is a better patriot. I don't know, repeat I don't know ????????????????????????????????????????????????

I can only hope that Senator Oama picks such a fine and fierce Democrat as Joe Biden.
The smear that is going on at this time from Senator Obamas' opponents must be addressed each day as these smears come out.
The mainstream and cable news outlets are not calling these smears against Senator Obama the lies that are being spread by the same OLD political hacks that have led our countries disasterous policies our government of the last 7 years has perpetrated, including lies and war crimes.

I LOVE the idea of Joe Biden as VP.
Godspeed Senator Obama and Senator Biden the the Whitehouse.

Barack Obama 2008 !!!!
Integrity
Intelligence
Honesty

One more sign Mr. Obama shows sheepishness when confronted with

a leadership moment. This man is weak, he folds when facing the

spotlight.

Is it just me, or do we always get this VP spin (over and over and over) when there's a slow news day?

Everyone should read Jack Cafferty's evaluation of John McCain on the CNN homepage. Brilliant and concise.

Good choice.... a better would have been Colin Powell. Not only a surprise ......but INCREDIBLY experienced both diplomatically and Militarially. You never know.

Bayou Joe worte:

""More Taxes, More welfare""

10 triilion dollars, yes ""TEN TRILLION DOLLARS "" THAT IS ALL IN THE CREDIT CARD..

McCain: Bush's Third Term...enough said!

The best that could be said is that at least Biden has some political experience whereas Osama is running for an office that is well above his pay grade. After all he is just an apprentice Senator.

CNN do you think really that the most important word Obama said on the veterans in Orlando what Biden !
what a wast of people time.!

Obama/Biden '08

That is definitely a winning ticket!!!!!!!

I'll be glad to see Biden on the ticket. He'll tear Romney to pieces in a debate.

Sacto, I was opposed to the war in Iraq, too. Why don't you vote for me? Oh, wait. But I have no foreign policy experience and have no idea how to get us out of Iraq. And neither does Obama.

YAWN!!!

Obama is getting to be anticlimactic with all of his faux-excitement builder up to his v.p. selection.

What the big surprise to us was how you, Obama were SELECTED instead of being elected.

Who cares who your selected v.p. will be, because come the Denver Convention H.R. Clinton's name, which will be place in Nomination for the First Roll Call will win the democratic leadership by an overwhelming voter support, from delegates and superdelegates.

EVERONE IS ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THEY ARE SCARED OF SENATOR OBAMA.........I THINK EVERONE SHOULD BE SCARED OF MCSHAME!!!!!!!!!!

SENATOR OBAMA PRESIDENT 08

$I Billion for Georgia? You have to be kidding me. I am a firm supporter of Senator Obama, and have no problem with Senator Biden as a running mate, but I am getting very tired of the lack of understanding by either party of the politics and history of the situation in Georgia.

Says Sen. McCain: "Obama is putting his political ambitions ahead of the country's interests". I thought these two matters were intertwined. In other words, if you have no ambition, what on earth can you do for your country?

I definitely hope Obama picks Biden as his VP choice. That should seal his fate with a loss in November. Having a significantly more experienced VP as his running mate will only highlight how little experience and credibility that Obama has. Add to that the fact that his first major decision as a candidate is to choose a VP with such a tendancy to stick his foot in his mouth ... it will be the perfect foreshadowing of Obama's defeat.

If he chooses anyone but HIllary, we hope ALL her supporters put her name on the ticket. We are hoping for Obama/Hillary ticket, but if not, he has lost all our families votes.

Barack is such a gentleman! I SO respect him for how respectful he is to others, even John McCain..... No wonder leaders of other countries seem to respect (there's that word again!) him so much. And if Biden were added to the ticket, ......

Biden may become the VP Candidate for the Dems. But I have one question for everyone...will CNN continue to speculate on the VP at every mention of anyone who could possibly be a VP? How about some real, logical reporting CNN...please?

Obama '08, CNN get a job.

It's Webb... he has war hero credentials to offset McCain's and he can deliver Virginia. Biden can't deliver a single state that wouldn't already vote for Obama and he's a not a change candidate. Now if Senator Obama can get the senior citizens on his side by showing them how the R's are out to take their health care and social security away, he'll win.

This comment carries no meaning regarding who Obama may or may not pick. He mentions McCain's name more often. Besides, didn't Biden just return from a well publicized 2-day trip to Georgia?

Who ever order us to go to iraq had no jugdment.

shame on you McWrinkle

These two deserve each other. For the first time in my life I will be voting for a Republican. These two make me sick to my stomach.
Biden is the 2nd most liberal senator in Washington and Barak is #1,
I can see where our country is going. To the far left. More Taxes, More welfare.

Biden is Obama's Cheney

Mccain and his campaign are sleezeballs, and Mccain said he would be above that and run a respectful campaign, that went out the door. You can't reserve patriotism for one party, that is ludacris. If this is the precident America wants to send, that these smere campaigns focusing away from the issues are what wins the presidency, then I've lost all faith in this country's political system.

Stop playing this dangerous game. Combine Obama's vision and ability to energize a populace with Bill Richardson's experience (energy, foreign relations, immigration) and you create a team that is best and right for America, and for the world. Have Joe Biden be the Secretary of State, not VP. Do what is right, not what is politically correct!

I think the Repubs are not the only ones gearing up for a major fight this fall. Biden gives Obama the teeth to bite at the smear machine from the Repubs. Someone has to counter attack the negative campaign of Mccain!

We don't HAVE a billion dollars to send to Georgia-let the Russians rebuild what they ruined, just as we have a responsibility to rebuild Iraq.

Biden would be a great VP!

I'd rather see Wes Clark

Unfortunately killing McCain with kindness does not work. He has to recognize it as kindness first. And CNN you post 'disputes' in your ticker and then plaster a service photo shot of McCain. What gives? You are attempting to set the agenda for this election.

Senator McCain's involvement in our initial invasion of Iraq calls into question his judgement.

Senator Obama's opposition to the invasion of Iraq validates his judgement.

Anyone who doesn't recognize that President Bush, Vice-President Cheney and Senator McCain are joined at the hip when it comes to matters of national defense – and the appalling failures of same – is either (1) lying to themselves or (2) just plain lying.

Obama needs someone like Biden who will reflect the horrible attacks and lies coming from the McCain camp. Biden may shoot from the lip but that is the Obama campaign needs in my opinion. For McCain and Lieberman and others in the McCain camp to question patriotrism of their opponents is unpatriotic in itself. Biden is the man to push back on the McCain camp. He isn't a cool and collective as Obama and will turn their attacks back on them.

Obama/Biden '08

If Barack wants to zap all enthusiasm for his candidacy, then by all means choose Biden. Back to the good old boys club. Now watch McCain choose a woman for veep – race over.