Obama to Chose Bayh as Vice President
May 23, 2008 -8:43
CHICAGO – Five months into an undecided Democratic Primary, Sen, Barack Obama (Ill.) insiders hint at idea that Sen. Evan Bayh (D) of Indiana is the lead candidate for Obama’s Vice President. Obama started a discreet search team in April of 2008. The committee had been sworn to secrecy and members only spoke about the existence of it on condition of anonymity beginning. The shortlist of candidates is topped by Bayh, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland,and former Georgian Senator Sam Nunn.
A source from inside the campaign said that the committee, run by Jim Johnson, director of Mondale and Kerry’s V.P. search, had happily chosen Bayh, “the perfect Midwestern counterpart for [Obama]” in the Presidential Race of 2008. Officials high in the campaign would not comment on this story for fear of alienating undecided Democratic voters who still believe Hillary can win.
A recent meeting between Bayh and Obama took place on Thursday night in the Democratic front runner’s Chicago estate. This was following a meeting at Bayh’s Indianapolis office one week prior after the Clinton victory in Indiana.
ObamaBayh08.com is up and running as a part of the BarackObama.com system. Logging on this site takes visitors straight to Obama’s main campaign page. The owner of the domain, “Joe Chan” of Massachusetts , as listed by WhoIs.net, was confirmed to indeed be the pseudonym of a web designer affiliated with the Obama campaign.
ObamaBayh.com and ObamaBayh2008.com have also been registered by the same group. The group also purchased BarackObama08.com in October of 2004.
Neither Jim Johnson nor David Axelrod, Obama’s Chief Campaign Organizer, has commented on the choice of Bayh as V.P..
Sen Evan Bayh, a Clinton supporter, had been very influential in the Senate since taking office in 1999. A reformer and Civil Rights activist, Bayh is the son of former Democratic Indiana Governor Birch Bayh. Evan himself was a governor and Congressman from Indiana before pursuing the Senate in 1998.
Bayh is a Clinton supporter and contributor since the couple came to prominence in 1992. In 2000, President Clinton said he would be hoping to be at “Senator Bayh’s presidential inauguration one day”. Senator Evan Bayh endorsed Hillary Clinton as his choice for the Presidential nominee in 2008.
Clinton was nt mentioned as a possible nominee.
