John Podesta Put Hillary’s Potential Running Mates In Food Groups. I Have No Idea Why…

Can they not get delivery to Hillary Clinton’s campaign HQ? Was John Podesta just starving when he wrote this email? That’s the only explanation I can think of for this stupidity.

More WikiLeaks emails have been released and – even though CNN wishes they could send me to jail for looking at them – I’m having a ton of fun with this.

Like this one, where John Podesta grouped all of Hillary’s potential VP picks into “rough food groups.” I’ve tried to figure out if that was supposed to be a typo, but I don’t know what it would have been otherwise. So, “rough food groups” it is –

Ok, I can breathe again! Congrats on a fabulous night. I am feeling like it’s possible to get back to the longer term again. Cheryl and I met with Jim Hamilton on Friday to discuss lawyers who can help do the research and vetting that I outlined in the VP vet memo we discussed. We also met with Marc Elias to get his input on firms that have already provided substantial volunteer lawyer assistance and to get prepared to execute non-disclosure agreements with anyone we involve in the process.

We put together the attached notional teams of “report writers” (confidential profiles/public record vet) and “vettors” (deep-dive/oppo-book), and want to run it by you before we execute on the list. Let me know if there are people you would like to see added or removed before we begin the process.

Cheryl, Robby, Jake, Huma, Jennifer and I also did a first cut of people to consider for VP. I have organized names in rough food groups.

And here are the groups.

First is the Latino food group (mmmm… tacos) –

Javier Becerra

Julian Castro

Eric Garcetti

Tom Perez

Ken Salazar

And, what Twitchy is calling the “Estrogen food group.” I can’t even begin to guess what “estrogen food” is. Is that like when a woman who’s just given birth eats the placenta?

(Also, they spelled Claire McCaskill’s name wrong.)

Tammy Baldwin

Kirsten Gillibrand

Amy Klobuchar

Claire McKaskill

Jeanne Shaheen

Debbie Stabenow

Elizabeth Warren

The next group – I guess the white guy food group? Cucumber-and-mayonnaise sandwiches, anyone? (Oh hey, there’s Tim Kaine. Wave hi, Timmy!)

Michael Bennet

Sherrod Brown

Martin Heinreich

Tim Kaine

Terry McAuliffe

Chris Murphy

Tom Vilsack

The African-American food group. What are we allow to say goes in this food group? ‘Cause you know whatever I put here will be RAAAAAAACIST! (Side Note: They were considering Eric Holder? That would be a surefire way to torpedo your own candidacy, Hillz) –

Steve Benjamin

Corey Booker

Andrew Gillum

Eric Holder

Deval Patrick

Kasim Reed

Anthony Foxx

Military veteran food group. What would that be? Military MREs? –

John Allen

Bill McCraven

Mike Mullen

And here we have the rich liberal food groups (fruits and nuts, most like). Even Bill and Melinda Gates, huh? Wonder if they would pick one or the other, or have a husband/wife VP duo. After all, Bill Clinton ran in 1992 saying that Hillary would basically be his co-president –

Mary Barra

Michael Bloomberg

Ursula Burns

Tim Cook

Bill Gates

Melinda Gates

Muhtar Kent

Judith Rodin

Howard Schultz

And all by his lonesome is crazy socialist Bernie Sanders. I guess they considered him as a last resort? That food group would be a roadkill cat because you can’t afford to buy food at the grocery store (that is, if there is food at the store at all) –

Bernie Sanders

So, there you go. Democrats divide running mates into groups the same way they divide Americans into groups. But they call it “food groups” because that’s supposed to be nicer. Or something.

If Democrats want to do this divide-by-demographics thing all the time, they should use food groups. I really wouldn’t mind being associated with food, honestly. As long as it’s delicious food. My Utah food group would probably include ham, funeral potatoes, and ice cream. Lots of ice cream. (Leave the Jello salad at home, though.)

I can think of worse things to be known for.