What he wants to do is to let this vice-presidential question essentially float to the back burner. He needs to take charge not by spending the summer worrying about who's going to be his vice president, but by laying out a clear framework for what his presidency would be about.
Gergen discusses Obama's need to focus on his presidential agenda rather than the VP selection.
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