Tim Kaine heads to Indiana this weekend to campaign for Sen. Barack Obama. Kaine will participate in town hall events in Connersville, and Lawrenceburg, Indiana and make a stop in, of all places, RICHMOND, Indiana.
Still, you have to wonder why the Virginia governor was not dispatched to North Carolina—the battleground state just to the south of the Commonwealth. Reporters put the question to him this monring:
“I don’t know,” Kaine said. “I say to the campaign, ‘You tell me where you want me to go.’ I give them one day a month...and I go where they think I’m going to be helpful.”
Kaine did say a lot of the Obama staffers in Indiana are people he’s worked with before—and who worked for him during his campaign for governor. “They probably clambored for me to come there,” he said.
Kaine said the script for the weekend is going to be pretty much the same as it’s been on other swings:
“We’ve got to make fundamental changes in this country, and that what people are saying is they’re unhappy with the direction of the economy. They’re unhappy with the direction of where we are in Iraq and our policy. And they attribute their unhappiness to some of the way politics is done is in D.C. ...
Kaine said the incendiary rhetoric of Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, did not come up when he campaigned for the senator in Pennsylvania, and shouldn’t this weekend, either.
“American voters are smart, they’re not stupid. They know what’s on their mind, and it is not what a pastor says… The issue is an issue of the economy and where where we stand in the world. That’s the issue that’s going to decide this primary, this nominating battle. And that’s what’s going to decide the election in November.”
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