Obama Begins VP Search

I totally called this. The report is filled with words like "quietly" and "secretly," but the fact that the story's out there means that someone wanted it known. Probably Obama.

I said that this would knock Clinton to page three, so let's see if the rest of the media picks it up.

clipped from marcambinder.theatlantic.com Very quietly, Sen. Barack Obama has begun the process that will end in his choosing a running mate, Democrats inside and outside the campaign said. Obama has sworn a small group of his senior staff to secrecy. He is determined to start the vice presidential search on his own schedule and has said publicly, and repeatedly, that he will not talk about ticket-mates until the race for the nomination itself concludes. But on his behalf, staffers are putting together a team to assist the search committee, and a hand-full of Democrats connected with the campaign will start to pull together dossiers (based only on open source research and press clippings at this point) on a large number of potential picks so that Obama can have something to read when he starts to think about the choice.