2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Left’s Beef With Tim Kaine: Bernie’s supporters see a rebuke in Clinton's ‘safe’ VP pick [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Over a VP pick. VP is a virtually powerless position with few Constitutional abilities.
If the President doesn't assign you projects, you sit around doing nothing. In a sense it is a pick that can be used to completely marginalize someone, and some VPs have definitely been given that treatment and felt that way.
As greenfield noted in a politico article back in May, our first Vice President," John Adams, who called it the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived. (Then there was John Nance Garner: Not worth a bucket of warm piss. And Harry Truman: About a useful as a cows fifth teat.)
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Get excited or upset over THAT? If you are looking to be excited or upset I suppose you can convince yourself. But someone that determined to be upset is not someone whose opinion is worth listening to, at all. I save my occasions for being upset over things that actually matter.