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Barack Obama Chooses Kathleen Sebelius for Vice President
Posted On 08/20/2008 07:31:06 by BarnhartBlog

Is it Rumor of Fact...? You Be the Judge.

According to the website http://www.tribbleagency.com they claim to have a credible source who was able to confirm the following...

We have a credible lead that Barack Obama will be announcing Kathleen Sebelius for Vice President / VP. Our sources work within an ad agency that is hired by the Obama campaign, and have noted that the vast majority of the discussions there are regarding material logistics in terms of Kathleen on the vice president ticket. Now until this is verified please file it as rumor, however our sources on this are not bad.. and have yet to be proven wrong.

Our source noted “It will get a women on the ticket that shares the same views as Obama” a reference to many of the Hillary supporters... Then of course we had to do some research.

We held some general opinions prior to this little research project. One of them being that they wouldn’t have multiple domain providers, it becomes a hassle.. so the chances are they used the same registrar.

The Main BARACK OBAMA site is using Godaddy as their registrar and uses DomainControl.com as their DNS… pretty generic.. as anyone can pretty much do that… Now were it get’s interesting is the other contenders…

Domain Name: BARACKOBAMA.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
Name Server: NS05.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server: NS06.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

It appears OBAMASEBELIUS.COM is owned by the Obama Campaign, and the ‘hidden’ registration will turn into a website after the announcement. Our lead noted that a site is already being designed .. and advertising agencies are always full of leaks. Again file as rumor until verified…

We will compare the evidence we are allowed to show you without anyone getting fired.

So lets compare our suspect:

Domain Name: OBAMASEBELIUS.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
Name Server: NS03.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server: NS04.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

So far a perfect match for Kathleen Sebelius

But let’s research this more as there are other contenders out there that could have the exact same output. Let’s look at Joe Biden.

Domain Name: OBAMABIDEN.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
Name Server: NS19.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server: NS20.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

Sounds good so far.. until you see this:

Registrant:
LYLE DEAN
1571 CHURCH ST
SAN FRANCISCO, California 94131
United States

That’s a show stopper… because there is no way that Obama would allow this to happen with the domain name owned by someone else with unknown political views that could turn it into a porn site.

So let’s check Senator Evan Bayh, as a potential candidate.

Domain Name: OBAMABAYH.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
Name Server: NS1.COFFEYDESIGN.COM
Name Server: NS2.COFFEYDESIGN.COM

Nameservers don’t match, and to make it worse.. the site goes to an RSS parser.. and nothing more.

So let’s try Tim Kaine

Domain Name: OBAMAKAINE.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
Name Server: CPNS01.SECURESERVER.NET
Name Server: CPNS02.SECURESERVER.NET

Nameservers don’t match as well… however the registrar does.

This is possible, however unlikely. The chances are the same group that built BARACKOBAMA.COM will be building the new site. So the chances are that they are all going to be roughly identical. This evidence isn’t conclusive with what is currently available, but the signs do point to Kathleen Sebelius.

Now coupled that with the lead we got.. and we feel there is well over a 50% chance that she will be Obama’s vice president.

Enjoy the speculation

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Posted by John Barnhart on August 20, 2008 at 07:07 AM in Current Affairs, Politics, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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From: BarbaraT
08/20/2008 16:24:52

How about that, Barnhart, we agreed on something from the start - no debate?  Well, I'm happy and I'm disappointed, too!



From: BarnhartBlog
08/20/2008 14:58:46

I agree... great points and very solid analysis!!!

From: BarbaraT
08/20/2008 08:13:00

This would be interesting on two levels.  First of all, it would serve to alienate female Hillary supporters even further.  Obama's audacity to believe that her supporters will accept another 60 year old woman, no matter that it's not Hillary, and all join hands and sing kumbaya all the way to the White House is hog wash.


Secondly, if you read up on the lady at Wikepedia (which I had to do), you'll see his true criteria for a running mate, and it has nothing to do with serving the country.  He's looking for talking points against McCain.  Check it out, he gets the bi-partisan running mate in her to offset his staunch liberalism:


On May 26, 2006 Sebelius formally announced her candidacy for re-election. Four days later, Mark Parkinson, former Kansas state GOP Party Chair, switched his party affiliation to Democratic; the following day Sebelius announced that Parkinson would be her running mate for Lieutenant Governor. Parkinson had previously served in the state House during 1991–1992 and the Senate during 1993–1997. Parkinson was viewed as a pro-business moderate who strongly supported public education. This was somewhat reminiscent of the fact that John Moore had also been a Republican, before switching just days prior to joining Sebelius as her running mate.[10]


During the 2004 election, Sebelius was named as a potential running mate for John Kerry.[17] In the aftermath of Kerry's defeat, some pundits named Sebelius as a potential candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 2008.[18]As of Barack Obama's clinching of the nomination in June 2008, speculation remains that she will be a contender for the vice-presidential slot on the Democratic ticket this year.[19] The Washington Post has listed her as the top prospect for the 2008 nomination.[20] James Carville and Bob Novak have also mentioned Sebelius' name[21][22], and Wesley Clark, also considered a potential running mate, has publicly endorsed Sebelius, referring to her as "the next vice-president of the United States." [23] Speculation that the Vice Presidential nomination lies in her future was heightened by the fact that she was chosen by the Democratic Party's congressional leaders to give their party's official response to Republican President George W. Bush's 2008 State of the Union Address.[24] The next day, she endorsed Obama's campaign, one week before the Kansas caucus on Super Tuesday.[25] Obama won the caucus easily, with 74% support.[26]


It would seem that  this is a running mate the Democrats would embrace.  She's a woman, she's white, she's "older", and she's got a record for bipartisanship.  That's the window dressing Obama is looking for, so I say your sources are probably accurate.  And when it happens, watch all the Hillary supporters clamor to John McCain.



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