Obama’s Veepables

Steven L. Taylor · Tuesday, July 29, 2008 · 5 Comments

A little run-down at my place.

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About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science at Troy University. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. He is the author of Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombia and is currently working on a comparative study of the US to 29 other democracies. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging at PoliBlog since 2003. Follow Steven on Twitter

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sam says:

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 12:07

I ran over the Kaine’s Wiki page for a quick looksee. His bio struck me as quintessentially American. I mean, aren’t we all from someplace else?

Early life and education

Kaine was born in St. Paul, Minnesota to Mary Kathleen Burns and Albert A. Kaine, an engineer and small business owner.[citation needed] Kaine grew up in the Kansas City area and graduated from Rockhurst High School in Kansas City, Missouri.

Kaine graduated from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1979.[1] He attended Harvard Law School, taking a year-long break during law school to work with the Jesuit order as a Roman Catholic missionary in Honduras.[2] He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1983, and was admitted to the Virginia Bar.

He is now the governor of Virginia.

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Triumph says:

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 12:08

Given the fact that B. Hussein thinks he’s the messiah (weird for a Musilm, I know!), I predict that he will choose himself for the VP slot.

It only befits his Chavez-Castro-Kim Jong Il, liberal authoritarian nature.

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Michael says:

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 13:10

Given the fact that B. Hussein thinks he’s the messiah (weird for a Musilm, I know!),

Islam has messianic prophecies, they just don’t think the he will be divine, being a strictly mono-theistic religion.

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glasnost says:

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 20:47

Steve – off-topic, but you are a fantastic addition to OTB. Hats off to James Joyner for finding you and putting you up here. Only conservatives can show other conservatives the difference between realistic criticism and hysterical agitprop.

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Steven Taylor says:

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 22:04

Glasnost–thanks, I appreciate the note.

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