Kerry on the VP Shortlist? Really?

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Reportedly, John Kerry is being considered as Obama’s VP.

I’m not buying it. This has to be a series of headfakes from the Obama campaign, right? Creating media speculation on different options — one week of Bayh, one week of Biden, one week of Kerry — keeps people talking about the choice for almost month. And ultimately, they can find a better choice than any of those three, meaning that even if the actual choice is flawed, people will still say, “Whew. Better than the other options, anyway.”

But pretty soon they’re going to be the campaign that cried wolf.