Obama Names Kaine DNC Chairman

As governor, Tim's promoted smart growth reforms to help traffic move better and improve the quality of life in our communities, ramped up the number of children getting health care and a pre-K education, and invested in schools while holding them more accountable.

Under his watch, Virginia has become one of America's leading centers of innovation, creating new jobs, building new industries, and seizing the opportunities of a 21st-century economy.

In the end, what will make Tim such an outstanding DNC chairman is not just his ability to win campaigns by bringing people together or his recognition that we need new, more pragmatic approaches to meet the challenges of our time.

It's his belief that politics is about something more than what all too often it's become in Washington, that it's not about enriching corporate friends or feeding partisan disputes or getting your name in the papers, but about the dignity of service.

That's the kind of leadership he will bring to the Democratic Party. That's the kind of leadership the Democratic Party will bring to America.

OBAMA: So, with that, let me just introduce very briefly the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Governor Tim Kaine.