Edwards says no to VP spot
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"It may be time to take John Edwards' name off the list of potential vice presidential candidates.
The former presidential candidate, who was the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee, continued to flatly maintain has no interest in the job. Traveling in Spain Friday, Edwards told two separate newspapers it’s not a role he is willing to take again.
“I already had the privilege of running for vice president in 2004, and I won't do it again," Edwards told El Mundo newspaper. He also made similar comments to El Pais.
The former North Carolina senator's comments are his first on VP speculation since Barack Obama officially clinched the Democratic nomination. Edwards, who ended his own bid in late January , endorsed the Illinois senator's White House bid in May, sending the political world abuzz that the two could team up on the same ticket.
They appeared to have natural chemistry — something Edwards and then-Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry seemed to lack in 2004 — and the former North Carolina senator remains popular among a key demographic that has been reluctant to support Obama — working-class white voters.
But Edwards immediately sought to quell rumors he was angling for the No. 2 spot, telling an interviewer shortly after his endorsement announced that it "Won't happen…. It's just not something I am interested in."
But he has been more coy about serving for Obama in other ways, specifically as his attorney general."
The former presidential candidate, who was the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee, continued to flatly maintain has no interest in the job. Traveling in Spain Friday, Edwards told two separate newspapers it’s not a role he is willing to take again.
“I already had the privilege of running for vice president in 2004, and I won't do it again," Edwards told El Mundo newspaper. He also made similar comments to El Pais.
The former North Carolina senator's comments are his first on VP speculation since Barack Obama officially clinched the Democratic nomination. Edwards, who ended his own bid in late January , endorsed the Illinois senator's White House bid in May, sending the political world abuzz that the two could team up on the same ticket.
They appeared to have natural chemistry — something Edwards and then-Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry seemed to lack in 2004 — and the former North Carolina senator remains popular among a key demographic that has been reluctant to support Obama — working-class white voters.
But Edwards immediately sought to quell rumors he was angling for the No. 2 spot, telling an interviewer shortly after his endorsement announced that it "Won't happen…. It's just not something I am interested in."
But he has been more coy about serving for Obama in other ways, specifically as his attorney general."
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- radiovolume
- 2 months ago
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As I thought, he is a good man, in some ways better then Obama, however I would love for him to be AG.
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Four star Gen. Westley Clark would be the best choice for vice. He would help take the military vote from Mccain.
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He should have been the nominee for president.
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- JanforGore
- 2 months ago
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Edwards is upset that Obama didn't come through in the "Jet-skis for Endorsement" deal.
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jpoRS, I hear that.
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How I'd like to be a fly on the wall during Obama's VP discussions now. With Edwards seemingly out of the picture there doesn't seem to be a front runner and no one can predict where they're going to go with it.
That said, does anyone get the feeling that the nomination is going to fall into Hillary's lap by the process of elimination? -
Obama wants change and wants to live by that creed, then he wouldn't dare pick someone as Vice-President that everyone thought he would.
Change indicates being different than anyone prior. Edwards was already a VP pick. So not only does Edwards not want to do it again he could very well be saying that picking him wouldn't be going towards the change that Obama voiced for so many months.
Party lines should be crossed just as he suggest he would and does do.
He should set up an Abraham Lincoln White House. -
There goes my prediction; I thought he would have been the perfect one for the spot (vote support wise).
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- cerealforeal
- 2 months ago
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