Today's MSM Three for Obama Veep are Biden (Keith's Olbermann's apparent choice), Bayh and Kaine, in that order, sort of. All are wrong choices.
The two most likely choices are Kathleen Sebelius and Brian Schweitzer, the Governors of Kansas and Montana respectively. Both have seismic potential.
The scenario under which Sebelius might get the nod is that it would be part of a rapprochement with Clinton that she'd go with. Hillary and Kathleen suddenly become the SAME THING and Hilary's supporters back off.
Schweitzer would be Obama's laugh at everyone, a manifestation of great confidence on Obama's part and the choice of someone who really does rank as a political original and potential leader beyond the others in the Barack VEEP stable.
These two candidates speak chance and excitement and none of the MSM three promise more but endless picking over of the boring question WHY.
I think the choice of one of these would force McCain to choose Lieberman and run on a Strangelove platform. All the neocon apocalypse you can imbibe. Talk about Kool-Aid.
Schweitzer would also nail down the clear Western Strategy the Obama camp is running. Count the Western states among those that Obama regards as battlegrounds by simply listing those in which he's placing his most recent ad.
The states are AK, CO, FL, IA, MI, MO, MT, NM, NV, NH, NC, ND, OH, PA, VA, and WI.
Now if it came down to Schweitzer or Sebelius, what would the list above tell you. NO KANSAS. Kansas is McCain's as of now.
Schweitzer is a THINKER who has put together the restoration economy for this whole country.
I would guess from observation of comments on the Obama Blog that Schweitzer has increased his popularity among Obama loyalists as they have discovered him by listening to his videos, including some at the link below.
BRIAN SCHWEITZER FOR VICE PRESIDENT
Brian Schweitzer Talks about The Restoration Economy
Here are some additional helps in doping out the Democratic veepstakes:
Al Giordano has all the twists and turns you could wish for in his current take on the Democratic veepstakes, including a list of hopefuls with some of them crossed out followed by cogitation and a civil comment section here.
Brent Budowsky on Alternet asks where Gore is when we need him to point to the toast that is the McCain environmental plan. That has some tangential relationship to the VEEPARAMA, one thinks. Schweitzer is the most environmentally committed of the current list, see here.
Here is a New York Times list of those THEY regard as viable. My biggest argument for Brian Schweitzer is that he is NOT on the Times list. Kathleen is however. Check it out.
Finally:
An intelligent comment on why it won't be Biden.
