Lunch break is always painful for me because that's the time of the day I have to watch the best front-page diaries go sailing by without leaving a comment. (I only have a couple of minutes to glaze over websites.)
So I missed out on the Veep-a-thon today. Coincidentally, I was talking with a friend and fellow kossack this weekend about who would make a good VP pick for Obama. Nothing clicked then. At lunch today it did, and I couldn't post, dammit!
I had a bunch of criteria, and I'll list those after the bump, but one criteria some are hesitant to mention is that Obama's veep is more than a Vice President. He/she should be an insurance policy against foul play -- that's about as lightly as it can be put I guess. Someone that those most likely to commit the unthinkable would not want assuming power after the fact.
And I came up with a name nobody mentioned (unless my text search betrayed me.) It's an out-of-the-box, out-on-a-limb suggestion, from a non-policy-wonk, but who knows... at the very least I expect to be constructively berated...
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