Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden isn’t worried about taking on republican VP pcik Sarah Palin. 

“Folks, look, I know what she’s going to try to do: she’s going to try to make it as personal as she can. She’s going to take a lot of straight lefts and jabs at me. She’s going to try to get me to respond. She’s going to try to get me to respond in a personal way,” Biden said. “That’s not my style. I’m not going to do it.”

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John McCain may wait to announce his running mate until Barack Obama announces his own.

“We’d be stupid to pick before they do,” said one top McCain adviser. “If they go first, you have more information.”

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While reports are stating that Hillary Clinton will not be Barack Obama’s running mate, I’m predicting the opposite.

Right now, she’s sheduled to speak as the keynote at the Democratic convention, but that schedule can change.

And it will.

Why?

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The New York Times is reporting that James A. Johnson, the consummate Washington insider whom Senator Barack Obamaa tapped to head his vice-presidential search effort, resigned abruptly on Wednesday to try to silence a growing furor over his business activities.

Johnson’s departure deprives Mr. Obama of decades of experience and access to Washington’s power elite. Johnson has been a fixture in Washington political and legal circles for three decades, and he led the vice-presidential search team for Senator John Kerry, the Democrats’ presidential nominee in 2004, according to the New York Times.

Obama said Wednesday afternoon that “Jim did not want to distract in any way from the very important task of gathering information about my vice-presidential nominee, so he has made a decision to step aside that I accept.”

And the national campaign has officially begun.

Hillary gave a very graceful exit speech this weekend.

Now the big question is whether or not Barack will ask Hillary to run as his VP.

We probably won’t know until August - but what’s your gut telling you right now?

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