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MCCAIN'S PICK

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

We've been thinking a lot about McCain's pick for Vice President. In  another life at another time a long time ago, we worked on a campaign that made a decision for Vice President.  In the end we have decided that there is nothing bold about McCain's pick. It is not "transformative" and it will not help the Senator from Arizona. John McCain will be 72 when the next president is sworn in. If elected he will be the oldest person ever elected president of the United States. His choice for Vice President, as much as Senator Obama's, needed to reflect the very best individual ready to become president in the flicker of an errant heartbeat. The choice of the extraordinarily inexperienced Governor from Alaska does not nothing to to prove that McCain  chose the very best person able to become president if tragedy or illness strikes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on September 01, 2008 (boomark / email).