Every Veep Has His Day
By GAIL COLLINS
NYT
VICE PRESIDENTS!!!
We cannot possibly talk enough about them. It’s hard to believe that only a few weeks ago, we thought that Joe Biden was just a garrulous senator-for-life and Evan Bayh was ... an extremely boring person from Indiana.
Tim Kaine — you will be shocked to hear this, but until recently we had never thought about Tim Kaine at all. Now he is at the center of our universe.
If we’d been planning ahead, we’d have demanded a real vice-presidential competition, something the other TV networks could have put up against the Olympics. Can anybody beat Bill Richardson’s Guinness World Record of 13,392 shaken hands over eight hours? Down more boilermakers than Hillary Clinton in a single campaign? Biden and Bayh could have read aloud from their autobiographies while judges counted the number of audience members who stayed alert during “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics” vs. “From Father to Son: A Private Life in the Public Eye.”
Everybody has so many strengths; it’s hard to choose. How about that Governor Kaine? A Democrat who speaks freely about his faith, that’s what the ticket needs. Of course, Barack Obama is a Democrat who speaks freely about his faith, but Kaine is a Catholic and two faiths are better than speaking freely about one. If John McCain really goes ahead and picks Joe Lieberman, we could have candidates speaking freely about their various faiths around the clock.
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NYT
VICE PRESIDENTS!!!
We cannot possibly talk enough about them. It’s hard to believe that only a few weeks ago, we thought that Joe Biden was just a garrulous senator-for-life and Evan Bayh was ... an extremely boring person from Indiana.
Tim Kaine — you will be shocked to hear this, but until recently we had never thought about Tim Kaine at all. Now he is at the center of our universe.
If we’d been planning ahead, we’d have demanded a real vice-presidential competition, something the other TV networks could have put up against the Olympics. Can anybody beat Bill Richardson’s Guinness World Record of 13,392 shaken hands over eight hours? Down more boilermakers than Hillary Clinton in a single campaign? Biden and Bayh could have read aloud from their autobiographies while judges counted the number of audience members who stayed alert during “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics” vs. “From Father to Son: A Private Life in the Public Eye.”
Everybody has so many strengths; it’s hard to choose. How about that Governor Kaine? A Democrat who speaks freely about his faith, that’s what the ticket needs. Of course, Barack Obama is a Democrat who speaks freely about his faith, but Kaine is a Catholic and two faiths are better than speaking freely about one. If John McCain really goes ahead and picks Joe Lieberman, we could have candidates speaking freely about their various faiths around the clock.
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