Veep THIS!

Considering CNN is "confirming" Biden, this is kind of moot, but I was thinking about it all day.

While some people were speculating that the pick would be Hillary, others said no way, she hadn't been "vetted."

Seriously? You sure you don't want to reconsider that train of thought?

You mean after 8 years of ass-probing during Bill's presidency by the corrupt media and the scandal-mongering GOP, continued demonization during the Bush II fiasco, and then a very close race for the Dem nomination, there's something we don't know about Hillary Clinton?!?!?!?

Again: seriously?

OK, imagine you're Obama, sitting in your elitist strategy tower, bowl of arugula in front of you, maybe a little raspberry vinaigrette on the side (of course). You've got five people on your finalist list: Hillary Clinton and four others. Those others? You get their tax returns, a full list of closet-based skeletons, some high school yearboooks, voting records, YouTube moments, whatever. You "vet" them. Hillary? You say, "sit tight, I may ask you, I may not, but I think you're a known quantity. We don't need it in triplicate."

To be clear, this is neither a pro or con on Clinton, or Biden, or whomever. I just thought that the whole "vetting" thing was a little silly.