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riversedge

(70,242 posts)
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 10:28 AM Jul 2016

Editorial Boards Praise @timkaine pick....



Tyrone Gayle
?@TyroneGayle

Ed Boards Praise @timkaine pick

USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/07/22/tim-kaine-hillary-clinton-vice-president-right-pick-our-view/87458426/

WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-picks-a-strong-running-mate-in-tim-kaine/2016/07/22/fd9c5978-4f6b-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html

NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/opinion/the-swing-state-appeal-of-mr-kaine.html?ref=opinion&_r=0


Tim Kaine is the right pick for veep: Our view
The Editorial Board8:33 p.m. EDT July 22, 2016
He's the first to say he's boring. That doesn't sound bad after months of Clinton's emails and Trump's bombast.
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(Photo: Andrew Harnik, AP)

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine is not Mr. Excitement, as he'd be the first to say, but he is the smartest vice presidential pick Hillary Clinton could have made.

Kaine is not going to fire up the Bernie-or-bust crowd and he is, there’s no way to avoid noticing, a middle-aged white guy (58, to be exact). But he does have the virtue of checking every other box on Clinton's wish list – starting with the confidence that, as she put it in an interview with Charlie Rose, her running mate “could literally get up one day and be the president of the United States.”

She called that her top priority. It is ours as well.

If resume is destiny, Kaine was inevitable. He is a former city council member, mayor, lieutenant governor and governor who has become a student of war and foreign policy in the Senate. As governor he even had to prove himself in the tragic role presidents must play all too often, as consoler in chief after a mass shooting (the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre that left 32 people dead)./....................








Adam Parkhomenko ?@AdamParkhomenko 1h1 hour ago

Washington Post Editorial Board: Hillary Clinton picks a strong running mate in Tim Kaine







Adam Parkhomenko ?@AdamParkhomenko 10h10 hours ago

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MADem

(135,425 posts)
1. He has a rather friendly face. I can't help but think of Quentin McHale
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 10:42 AM
Jul 2016

(the late and great Ernest Borgnine) when I see him--they have a similar quality:




It's not a likeness that is feature-for-feature (EB had more hair), but you rarely saw Borgnine without a smile on his face, and so too with Kaine.

CrispyQ

(36,478 posts)
6. Good call!
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:37 AM
Jul 2016

I've been reading up on Kaine this morning & you're right. Most of the photos he's smiling.

 

vi5

(13,305 posts)
2. Editorial boards and the beltway cable media....
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 10:51 AM
Jul 2016

Our prime constituencies. As long as they are happy , Dems must be doing something right.

Glad to see we plan on keeping that as a holdover priority from the Obama administration.

Cha

(297,317 posts)
3. Tim Kaine is the courageous choice because he's so courageous..
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:07 AM
Jul 2016

Thank you, rivers!


igorvolsky
✔ ?@igorvolsky
Tim Kaine took on the @NRA in its home state (and won). Via @krystalball http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/10773840.html
2:30 PM - 22 Jul 2016 · Manhattan, NY, United States
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https://theobamadiary.com/2016/07/22/the-presidents-day-109/

jcgoldie

(11,631 posts)
4. The gun control thing is literally enough to win me
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:15 AM
Jul 2016

About time someone wasn't scared to take on the goddamn NRA.

Qutzupalotl

(14,317 posts)
5. Thank you, I didn't know that.
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:35 AM
Jul 2016

I am warming up to Kaine.

He's not exciting by his own admission, but then the VP slot isn't exactly glamorous. Competent, low-key, and able to step in is what is required. So I see the wisdom in the pick.

My beef with him was mostly about the TPP, but he won't be setting policy, at least not until after Clinton's term.

Cha

(297,317 posts)
10. He's joking that he's not exciting.. all this good Tim Kaine does is
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 07:16 PM
Jul 2016

very exciting to me.

Would someone say.. "oh look at how exciting I am".. except trump, of course.

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