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Webb For Obama Veep?
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on May 01, 2008
Many readers like the idea. A typical email:
Makes a ton of sense,subject to the caveat (is he a loose cannon?) that you noted. Hereinforces Obama's "Iraq" and "change" messages; has national securitycred (was Reagan's Navy Secretary) without being an old insider;clearly has the testicular fortitude to be an attack-dog whennecessary, yet (as a former Republican) can claim to be post-partisan;has (had?) a son in Iraq just like McCain; was a Vietnam hero likeMcCain; and may even be able to reach the Appalachian Scots-Irishdemographic that Obama has had so much trouble winning. And, ofcourse, he could help in Virginia, a state that already looks promisingfor Obama.
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