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Clinton Chooses Kaine
It’s official: Hillary Clinton has chosen former mayor, governor, and senator Tim Kaine as her running mate.
The newly formed Democratic ticket took the stage together for the first time in Miami, showing off a partnership that prizes steadiness over flashiness.
As Hillary Clinton presented her vice-presidential choice, Virginia Sen. Timothy M. Kaine, to a roaring crowd of supporters, she noted that her choice stood in clear contrast to the Republican nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.
“Senator Tim Kaine is everything Donald Trump and Mike Pence are not,” Clinton said. “He is qualified to step into this job and lead on day one.”
“And he is a progressive who likes to get things done!”
The two launched their partnership here at Florida International University, a campus that is two-thirds Hispanic. The diverse audience waved American flags and Puerto Rican flags as they waited — in some cases for hours — for Clinton and Kaine to take the stage.
After months of deliberation, Clinton announced on Friday night that she had chosen Kaine, passing over a number of other more diverse candidates for a self-described “boring” white man from Virginia.
What are your thoughts about the pick?
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Someone should look into his time in Honduras, there is nothing more marxist, especially in things Latin American, than a fallen Catholic. The Cuban’s and Soviets used religious fronts to build on the Sandinistas victory. I have no information on him at all and no information on the school the Jesuits sent him to in Honduras. If he were a Republican the Democrats would dig around down there.
Alternatively, pass kudos to him for his contributions to Hondurans.
Then ask him: what has he done for Americans, say in Appalachia, where his running mate has promised to destroy Applachians’ jobs and make them dependents of government, or in the Ozarks, where jobs are similarly scarce and opportunity similarly limited?
And ask him whether he supports his fellow Progressive’s active obstruction of opportunity while simultaneously jacking up the cost of heating a New Yorker’s home in those northeastern winters by blocking fracking.
Does he care only about foreign poverty–a legitimate concern, to be sure–and not about poverty and opportunity in his own country?
Eric Hines
Kaine was a caretaker governor.
Coal is significant in Southwest Virginia. Ask Kaine what he did as Governor for Southwest Virginia coal miners.
I always wondered about that. Why isn’t it likewise OK to believe that while I’m against racism, that others should have the right to have those beliefs? Especially, if we are living in a marketplace that will judge those beliefs without government intervention.