I only used breaking because the story did, too:
BREAKING NEWS
Barack Obama taps three people to lead VP search, including Caroline Kennedy. Details to come.
Hat tip to Lisa Lockwood (below) for adding this:
WASHINGTON—Barack Obama has asked a three-person team, including Caroline Kennedy, to help lead the vetting of a prospective vice presidential candidate. Kennedy has begun managing the process with high-profile Democratic insiders Jim Johnson and Eric Holder.
Johnson is the former CEO of Fannie Mae who also oversaw the vice presidential vetting for John Kerry in 2004 and Walter Mondale in 1984. Holder was deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration and has been a senior legal adviser to Obama's campaign.
More on Eric Holder from bumblebums below:
Eric Holder has joined Obama’s presidential campaign. The former deputy attorney general under Janet Reno during the Clinton administration, Holder has spent the last six years as a corporate litigator and white-collar defense attorney at the powerhouse D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling.
Holder is also a former federal judge and former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. He was recently retained by the National Football League to probe allegations of Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick’s involvement in illegal dogfighting.
Given Holder’s credentials, it isn’t outside the realm of possibility to suggest he could wind up the nation’s first African-American attorney general should Obama win the White House.
I happen to think this is a brilliant move as it insulates Obama against some possible incoming fire from certain HRC supporters.
I, for one, think Hillary will be a tremendous asset in the campaign and the administration...just not as VP.