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Blame This Post On Obama

By Big Tent Democrat

NOTE - this post is Obama's fault because he did not announce his VP today.

Kos quoting a WaPo blogger:

If Obama's campaign had planned to roll out their vice presidential pick at any point today, that announcement is likely to be put on hold. Why? The campaign believes the story about McCain's many houses is political gold and they won't want to step on it with a veep announcement that would immediately change the day's storyline.

Actually, it does not make sense to me. Unless, all the Obama camp will be doing tomorrow re: the VP is the text message, which I find impossible to believe. The VP rollout requires an event - where the Presidential candidate and the Vice Presidential candidate appear together. That will happen tomorrow obviously and that clearly was the plan throughout. Which, btw, leads me to linking to poblano making a good point again:

It's probably just a matter of the punditry all being bored and thinking out loud at once, but when you start to see stuff like this... [Halperin speculating about Hillary as VP] ... is there not a little bit of danger to the Obama campaign? If I were a high-information Hillary loyalist, I'd be getting my hopes up right about now.

With that being the case, would it not be in the interest of the Obama campaign be moving to quash the "it could still be Hillary!" rumors -- assuming she is not the pick? And since the rumors haven't been quashed, does this therefore indicate that she might be the pick?

Well, she's not the pick, but the delay has raised some speculation about it and Obama's camp should have quashed it today imo.

Which takes me back to Kos' idea that Obama put off the VP pick for a day to play house hunter with McCain - if they did do it, it seems silly to me, 12 hours of a silly story that will be drowned out tomorrow by the VP announcement? Not buying it and if it is true, it seems a bad call to me.

Nah, Friday was always the day.

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 21, 2008 (boomark / email).