Obama appoints team to help find running mate

[QueenOfCalifornia]

What do you make of this? I think it means he has not at all settled on anyone. BUT does it look more and more like he will pick Hillary?

By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer

Barack Obama named a three-person team including Caroline Kennedy to lead his search for a running mate Wednesday while expressing confidence that the Democratic Party would soon unify after a bruising battle for the presidential nomination.

"I'm very confident of how we're going to be able to bring the party together," Obama said after a brief conversation with Hillary Rodham Clinton, his vanquished rival.

Campaign officials said Kennedy, who is the daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, as well as former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder and longtime Washington insider Jim Johnson have already begun compiling information on potential running mates. They disclosed no names.

Obama clinched the Democratic nomination on Tuesday, taking a major step toward his goal of becoming the first black president. While Clinton has yet to concede defeat, she and associates have been maneuvering for the past 24 hours to gain her a place on the ticket.

Bob Johnson, the founder of the Black Entertainment Network, was among them, and said he was doing so with her blessing.

Johnson said he had written the Congressional Black Caucus asking its members to urge Obama to place Clinton on the ticket.

Clinton "didn't direct me to do it but she certainly knows what I'm doing," said Johnson, who angered Obama's aides earlier in the race when he obliquely referred to Obama's confessed drug use as a young man.

Democrats began closing ranks quickly.

Two senators swung behind Obama after remaining neutral throughout his long nominating battle with Clinton, as did Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., a member of the House leadership with close ties to both senators.

"We have a nominee of our party," said Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa. Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado also announced his endorsement.

Former Vice President Walter Mondale, who had been a Clinton supporter, announced he was backing Obama.

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[Hope And Change]

1. ..

Supporter Caroline Kennedy, former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson and former Clinton deputy attorney general Eric Holder, an Obama legal adviser, will manage the vetting process.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

2. I hope he picks someone soon

Any news about who McCain is picking?

[Hope And Change]

8. Hmmm...

Don`t know but heard speculations about Gov. Charlie Crist (FL), Gov Bobby Jindal (LA)....

[OzarkDem]

3. A corporate CEO will help choose the VP? Not a good sign

Allowing corporate CEO's to have so much influence is a bad way to start off, sorry.

A celebrity, a CEO and a close friend whose an attorney.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

4. For once

I agree with you.

But what if they pick Hillary?

[On the Road]

6. I Guarantee They Won't Pick Anyone

They'll survery the field, vet the candidates, get personal backgrounda and polling data. Obama will make the choice.

[OzarkDem]

9. They way it usually works

like Cheney, it usually ends up being whoever heads up the committee.

[scheming daemons]

5. You DO realize that Fannie Mae was established by FDR in 1938?

It was part of the "New Deal" and plays a key role in making sure poor people can afford housing.




http://www.fanniemae.com/aboutfm/index.jhtml
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"The government established Fannie Mae in order to expand the flow of mortgage funds in all communities, at all times, under all economic conditions, and to help lower the costs to buy a home.

In 1968, Fannie Mae was re-chartered by Congress as a shareholder-owned company, funded solely with private capital raised from investors on Wall Street and around the world."
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[OzarkDem]

7. Its still a corporation, beholden to the banking industry

and Wall Street.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

10. Never trust Nedra Pickler.

Never.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

11. Is it true

that you have that tattooed on your _______?

:rofl:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

12. Hubby=Eric Conner=Fox.

She's long time anti-Dem.