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Title: Hillary Clinton picks Tim Kaine for VP
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yahoo.com
URL Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hillary- ... picks-tim-kaine-000000880.html
Published: Jul 22, 2016
Author: Liz Goodwin
Post Date: 2016-07-22 21:32:20 by Stoner
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Views: 544
Comments: 9
TAMPA, Fla. — Hillary Clinton announced Friday that she has picked Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia as her running mate, making a safe, centrist choice that will likely disappoint some in the progressive wing of her party. “I’m thrilled to tell you this first: I’ve chosen Sen. Tim Kaine as my running mate,” Clinton wrote in a text message to her supporters Friday night. Clinton is expected to appear with Kaine this weekend in south Florida, where the 58-year-old former governor of Virginia will likely show off his fluent Spanish picked up in his younger days during a year in Honduras working alongside missionaries. The pair is set to campaign together in Miami on Saturday and then head to the Democratic National Convention next week. Kaine offers Clinton many strengths as a running mate: He has foreign policy experience from his time on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate; he can boost her chances to win the battleground state of Virginia; and he has a squeaky-clean, nice-guy image that could help Clinton with her trust issues among voters. Kaine is self admittedly “boring,” and is a middle-aged white man, but he also speaks fluent Spanish and has attended a predominantly black church for two decades, suggesting he could be better than expected at minority voter outreach. What Kaine is not, however, is an attack dog. He’s also not a liberal stalwart able to draw disaffected supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders to the ticket, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who was also considered for the VP job. When Clinton and Kaine appeared at a rally together in Annandale, Va., last week, Kaine debuted family-friendly attack lines against Trump, calling him a “me-first” candidate who “trash talks” Latinos, women and others. This was in sharp contrast to Warren, who called Trump a “small, insecure money-grubber” in a barnstorming appearance with Clinton in May. Slideshow: Tim Kaine through the years >>> Some progressives in the party say they don’t like Kaine’s past support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and NAFTA trade deals, which could hurt Clinton in the Rust Belt where Donald Trump has made inroads by opposing those deals. (Kaine’s personal opposition to abortion as a Catholic also alienates some progressives.) Those progressives hoped Clinton would pick a more liberal running mate, one who rails against Wall Street and wealth inequality, to rally Sanders’ supporters to her side for the general election. “So far, the Clinton campaign has been surprisingly bold in the progressive positions they’ve carved out,” Adam Green, founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said last week. “And to go an extremely cautious route with a VP pick would cut against their pattern so far.” But the Clinton campaign provided progressives with a potential VP pick they found even more worrisome than Kaine. Last week, several news outlets began reporting that Clinton was considering Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, a longtime Clinton friend and former governor of Iowa, for the job. Some Sanders supporters call Vilsack “Mr. Monsanto” for his role in watering down the special labeling of genetically engineered food, and are more united in their opposition to him than to Kaine. It’s possible that floating Vilsack as vice president will soften the landing of Kaine among the 1,900 Sanders delegates who are attending the convention in Philadelphia, which starts Monday. Sanders also formally endorsed Clinton earlier this month and was given a prime speaking slot at the convention. In recent weeks, Clinton reportedly considered retired Navy Admiral James Stavridis, who worked for former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during the invasion of Iraq. She also considered a host of running mates who had more credibility among liberals than Kaine, who besides Elizabeth Warren included Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, Labor Secretary Tom Perez, Housing Secretary Julian Castro and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey.
Interesting. Wonder what Bernie supporters will think ?
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#1. To: Stoner (#0)
Hopefully, the pig doesn't order him to go down on her if she should win. Not even slick Willie could stomach her gash.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
But, does he know how to set up an email server in the bathroom closet? No one could ! Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Or, how to move campaign donations, or department budget money, to the Clinton Foundation Accounts? Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
I guess she thinks Kaine is able . Safe pick for the Dems because now Terry McAuliffe gets to appoint a new Senator . There was a time not too long ago that Kaine would've been the more conservative choice between him and Trump . But both of them stuck their finger in the political wind and strategically chose to slightly tack in different directions . Liz Warren is pissed . All those attacks on Trump were for naught. In bridge, you have wild cards called trump cards. The trump cards are really wild because they change from hand to hand, depending on the bidding.
She's a libtarded man hating cunt. She needs no special reason to hate Trump. Just like most of our rabid Paultards. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
... sandinistas depraved ... blacks ... jews ... catholics Make love If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
Not enough for them that he had a 100% pro-abortion voting record in the Senate ... the VP must celebrate baby-killing to win "progressive" approval. A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them. show off his fluent Spanish picked up in his younger days during a year in Honduras working alongside missionaries. Vatican Jesuits Make love ps pope If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
#2. To: Stoner (#0)
He has foreign policy experience from his time on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate; he can boost her chances to win the battleground state of Virginia; and he has a squeaky-clean, nice-guy image
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#3. To: GrandIsland (#1)
" Not even slick Willie could stomach her gash. "
#4. To: hondo68 (#2)
" does he know how to set up an email server in the bathroom closet? "
#5. To: Stoner (#0)
#6. To: tomder55 (#5)
All those attacks on Trump were for naught.
#7. To: Stoner (#0)
show off his fluent Spanish picked up in his younger days during a year in Honduras working alongside missionaries.
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#8. To: Stoner (#0)
Kaine’s personal opposition to abortion as a Catholic also alienates some progressives.
#9. To: All (#7)
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America
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