Scrap Those Obama-Webb Buttons

Today Virginia Sen. Jim Webb joined Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland as much-discussed running-mate possibilities for Barack Obama who have formally taken themselves out of consideration. This may have come as something of a relief to Team Obama. Webb was second only to Hillary Clinton as a galvanizing veep prospect, considered the obvious choice by a lot of people and "unacceptable" by others. But even some of his fans (viz. Ezra Klein) thought he was ill-suited for the vice presidency. So Barack Obama's "short list" for a running-mate just got a bit shorter. And Webb will stay, for the present, in the Senate, where (as the above Klein article reports) he's making quite an impression.