Not Your Sweetie

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The "Outlandish" McCain Offer. Kerry's courtship of
Senator John McCain to be his running mate was
longer-standing and more intense than previously
reported. As far back as August 2003, Kerry had taken
McCain to breakfast to sound him out to run on a unity
ticket. McCain batted away the idea as not serious,
but Kerry, after he wrapped up the nomination in
March, went back after McCain a half-dozen more times.
"To show just how sincere he was, he made an
outlandish offer," Newsweek's Thomas reports. "If
McCain said yes he would expand the role of vice
president to include secretary of Defense and the
overall control of foreign policy. McCain exclaimed,
'You're out of your mind. I don't even know if it's
constitutional, and it certainly wouldn't sell.'"
Kerry was thwarted and furious. "Why the f--- didn't
he take it? After what the Bush people did to him...'"


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Edwards Campaigns for Veep. Hours after bowing out of
the presidential nomination race on March 3, the
senator from North Carolina convened a small circle of
his closest advisers at his house on P Street in
Georgetown. He wanted the veep nomination, Edwards
told his aides, he wanted it badly, and from that
moment was going to wage "a full-fledged campaign" to
ensure that he got it.