To qualify, my gist has to do with these two as "prototypes", not in terms of these two guys specifically. And....I realize that mention of these guys can engender all sort of tangents - they're both white, they're both men, what do they bring in terms of voters?...and that kind of thing.

But for the sake of THIS post, I'm interested in the contrast between what a VP candidate with military/security gravitas vs. a candidate with fiscal/economic gravitas, might bring to the Obama candidacy.

What do you think?