vice presidential selection

Yeah, Biden picked Kamala Harris as his running mate. It was probably the smart political move-- certainly better than Susan Rice, who he really wanted. Everyone seems to like the idea.

-by EmorejFollowing are two or three mind-reading attempts:
A.      Lincoln Project people, by targeting Senate races, are doing one or both of the following:

Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, reportedly one of the last of Joe Biden's finalists for Vice Presidentby Thomas NeuburgerEvents on the VP selection front are moving quickly, and so far, it appears from all I can gather (private conversations, news stories, tea leaves left in news stories), that the choice is between Kamala Harris and Susan Rice.

Nut Bag Gregg Judd offering a seminar on progressive politicsJudd Gregg's father was governor of New Hampshire when Judd was a child. The younger Gregg was elected to Congress in his early 30s and then retired from the House in 1988 and ran, successfully, for his father's old job. After two terms as governor, he ran for the U.S. Senate.

On Thursday, Norman Solomon wrote that "eighteen years before Minneapolis police killed an unarmed black man named George Floyd on Monday, Minneapolis police killed an unarmed black man named Christopher Burns. Today, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar decries the killing of Floyd.

Yesterday, Bernie's campaign manager Faiz Shakir, sent out an e-mail about the troublesome billionaires afflicting the Democratic Party. "First," he wrote, "we had to face off against candidates flying around the country begging rich people for money at high-dollar fundraisers. Even so, we’ve out-raised them all… at just $19 a contribution.

When asked to describe the attributes in a vice president he's looking for by Cenk recently, Bernie said, playfully, he "would look for somebody who is maybe not of the same gender that I am and maybe somebody who might be a couple of years younger than me" and, less playfully, "somebody who can take the progressive banner, as vice president, and carry it all over the country to help us with our agenda and help us to rally the American people." Sounds like Elizabeth Warren, no? Kamala? Is she an actual progressive? Tulsi?

It's an extraordinarily low bar but Kaine is better than PenzzzzzzzzzSomeone on Twitter was trying to promote the idea that putting Tim Kaine first in the line to presidential succession was not just less terrible than putting Mike Pence there but actually a good thing...

Do you agree with Trump about anything? Even when he gets something right-- TPP for example-- his objections are not credible and invariably for all the wrong reasons. Well, he's wrong about Hillary too-- no matter what he says... and he's said everything! In terms of the election, all anyone really has to know is that however bad she is-- even after filtering out all the GOP/Hate Talk Radio slander and nonsense-- she is in all ways and on any day the far, far lesser evil than he is on his best day. There are some pros and some cons about a Hillary Clinton presidency.