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May 22nd, 2008
Posted: 10:09 AM ET
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Barack Obama is quietly beginning his search for a running mate. A veteran Democratic activist in Washington told CNN that former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson has accepted Obama’s request for him to begin a screening/selection process for the No. 2 spot. Johnson performed the same role in 2004 and 1984 for then-Democratic presidential nominees John Kerry and Walter Mondale. The activist, a party operative who has been involved in democratic presidential campaigns and conventions dating back more than 20 years, said it is his information that the process is “at a very early point but that within the campaign itself they have been informally thinking about it for a while.” Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton declined to comment on the report. |
 
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