It is probably premature to start sifting thru candidates for the Vice Presidency with Senator Obama, but I'm bored and willing to indulge sheer fantasy.
The Vice Presidency is a charmless inert position, one collects a salary for the mere potential of work much akin to certain obscure elected positions in Middlesex County before those offices were abolished.
And the office hasn't changed much since Thomas Jefferson had it and spent four years perfecting his solitaire game.
The main and eternal Vice Presidential qualification is to not be a buffoon and to have a clean record otherwise uncontaminated by the sort of vices that get Fox News all exercised.
The ability to deliver your home state is also nice and a penchant for clear concise english is welcome as well.
Because lets face it, if Senator Obama is the nominee he is gonna have to fetch Florida and Ohio all by himself, gaming the system by way of a VP nominee will avail him nothing in those two battleground states.
The big fight is the senator's to win or lose.
That having been said, it is about time we tried to do some business in New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, a veep nominee with some props in those states might make the difference in a close race.
This is where Bill Richardson governor of New Mexico comes into play, also governor Bill Ritter of Colorado or McCain's home state governor, Janet Napolitano.
If they speak clear concise spanish, their value goes up even further...
If this is the scenario, Richardson with his long DC resume and excellent spanish seems like the most obvious candidate.
But that is just a thought....the other advantage to a governor is that the delicate balance of the US Senate is not disturbed by such a nomination, and one gets to keep your populist outside credentials for a while longer.
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