Veepstakes Vicissitudes

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Finally, vice presidential candidates have been designated by presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. Their choices are said to be the first acts of potential presidencies - concrete evidence of what will happen when the buck stops at an Obama or McCain Oval Office.

Whatever the merits of these two freshly minted vice presidential candidates in terms of their qualifications for service as vice president and perhaps as president, no one would contend that either would have gotten the nod if the presidential candidates had left the choices to their respective conventions. No one has heard of Sarah Palin, and Joe Biden barely got enough votes to be noticed in the presidential primaries.

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Veepstakes Vicissitudes

Indeed, had the delegates to the Democratic Convention been allowed to make the selection, there is a good chance it would have been Hillary Clinton. She did come to the convention with nearly...

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