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Can We Cross Off Richardson, Biden and Bayh from Veepstakes?

By Jeralyn

The Democratic National Convention Committee announced more added speakers to Wednesday's lineup. Earlier, I reported on Sen. Ken Salazar. Now, there's another press release (no link yet) that says the following have been added:

Governor Bill Richardson and Senators Evan Bayh, Joe Biden and Jay Rockefeller will echo Obama’s call for a new direction in national security and outline his policies and plans to secure America’s future.

I think that means we can cross them off the list. Who's left? General Wesley Clark and Tim Kaine come to mind. [More...]

Also, the theme for Wednesday is:

Securing America’s Future: Tribute to Veterans, Active Duty Military & Military Families

My earlier post on why I like Gen. Wesley Clark is here .

Other speakers Weds. nite include Bill Clinton, Sen. Harry Reid, Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA) and Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth.

The press release says "The headline prime-time speaker on Wednesday will be Barack Obama’s Vice Presidential Nominee." It's then followed by saying Bill Clinton and Sen. Harry Reid will speak and then the other names.

Update: Jerome at MyDD agrees this announcement means these four are out. Markos at Daily Kos thought so too, but added an update acknowledging that, as his commenters said, schedules can be moved around.

I'd agree if the schedule had been set last week. But by now, Obama knows who he's picking -- or at least who he isn't -- and for his campaign to agree just today that these are speakers in addition to the VP candidate, says to me they've been eliminated.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).