Edwards Says He Won't Run For VP Again
In Interviews With Newspapers In Spain, Former Candidate Rules Out Running On Ticket With Obama
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John Edwards, left, shakes hands with Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero before their meeting at the Moncloa Palace, in Madrid, Friday, June 6, 2008. (AP)
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In his second presidential campaign, Edwards ran as a populist, with a focus on poverty and health.
"I already had the privilege of running for vice president in 2004, and I won't do it again," Edwards was quoted by El Mundo as saying. El Pais, the country's other leading daily, carried similar comments.
Edwards, who ran for vice president under Sen. John Kerry four years ago and was a presidential candidate in this year's Democratic primaries, had been named as a possible running mate for Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Calls by The Associated Press to several Edwards aides went unanswered and independent confirmation of Friday's reports was not immediately possible.
Edwards praised Obama as a "visionary," the El Mundo interview said.
"We don't live in a dream world and we have a lot of work to do," Edwards was quoted as saying in comments the newspaper translated into Spanish. "But Obama's potential is unlimited."
Edwards, a former senator from North Carolina, was quoted by El Mundo as saying he would do anything possible to help the Obama campaign other than joining the ticket.
He also had kind words for vanquished Democratic hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose supporters have suggested she and Obama would make a "dream ticket" if the Illinois senator selects her as his running mate.
But Edwards said only Obama could make such a choice, and he urged him to pick somebody who shared his goals and governing style.
"Hillary Clinton is a great force in the Democratic Party and in the United States, whether she aspires to the vice-presidency or to another position," he was quoted as saying. "She is an extraordinary woman, and the role she will play depends only on her and Sen. Obama."
While in Madrid, Edwards met briefly with Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and other senior officials. He spoke Thursday to a U.S. business group in Barcelona.
Edwards dropped out of the presidential race in late January following a spirited — if underfunded — populist campaign in which he pledged to stand up for the poor and powerless against corporate interests.
Both Obama and Clinton vigorously sought his endorsement, but he chose to stand on the sidelines until May, when he finally endorsed Obama.
Obama claimed the mantle as the likely Democratic nominee on Tuesday after the final primaries in Montana and South Dakota. Clinton is expected to formally concede on Saturday.
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NOBODY is jumping up and down wanting to be this far left doomed to failure wing nut!
Posted by TiredofObama
Let me see, Obama is is first African American to win the nomination. He is a senator. He graduated from Harvard. A country is looking forward to leadership. A "loser"? I don''t think so. Now you on the other hand......LOSER!
Obama owes nothing to Hillary! He iwsn''t obligated to bail her out of her financial debacle, and certainly isn''t obligated to including her in his plan!!!
Posted by TiredofObama
Let me see, Obama is is first African American to win the nomination. He is a senator. He graduated from Harvard. A country is looking forward to leadership. A "loser"? I don''''t think so. Now you on the other hand......LOSER!
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Posted by Tonyd_31 at 09:57 AM : Jun 06, 2008
Right on Tonyd_31...that is a loser!
This Egotistical A$$ hasn''t got a clue just HOW IRRELEVENT he has become!
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Posted by notaliberal4 at 10:41 AM : Jun 06, 2008
Well, Rev. Wright wanted it, remember?
You can''t find one word about it at CBS. It''s sad they decided to ignore the fact.
God bless the soldiers who fought and died in the largest land invasion in human history. Their efforts and sacrifice helped keep our first amendment in place.
Try to coax him a bit, Obama. I think you could make a case strong enough for him to change his mind.
:)
And for all you trash-talkers, how about getting onboard with a fresh administration! Come on, we could have a great time here, the US deserves to come up out of the mud of the last 16 years slung by both Dem and Rep.
Lets be a nation again, a nation with a future! Lets look forward again, for the first time in ages! Waddya say...
If you think higher taxes, more litigation, and socialized medicine are keys to a ''great time'', you''ve got a lot to learn about the real world.
Posted by LibH8er at 12:42 PM : Jun 06, 2008
I live in the same world you live in. It has been SUCH a utopia living under Republican rule from 2000-2006. I feel so financially secure with Bush Bribes coming in the mail from borrowed funds. I feel so secure within our own borders since Bush made this country sooooo safe, I feel my paycheck goes sooooo much further now with gas and mortgages and the cost of food and milk sooooo low. LOL. Time to admit your bunch couldn''t solve our problems, or chose not to.
People who complain no matter what, will keep this country stagnated and mean-spirited and hateful. What sacrifice is that for you to make? Soldiers give up their lives overseas, and you can''t give up your hate for fellow Americans?
What if you could? Is a brighter future somehow less fun than staying pissssy and mad in your little world because a Republican might not sit in the White House? Come on, that can''t be the only criteria of your life, whether or not your particular party remains in power?
How about YOU joining the real world, the one where people have differing opinions, live in different cultures within your own country, and still manage to get along and work together.
I won''t vote against McCain simply because he wears a republican label. Bush says he''s a republican, but he hasn''t followed any of the parties standards.
I won''t vote for Obama simply because he says he is a democrat. The label means nothing. It is the person that matters.
Clinton ran on the "change ticket" and won. By 2000 everyone hated the way the nation was and voted in a "republican" simply because the label was different. Bush ran on the "change ticket" and won. How disappointing.
Now Obama''s running on the "change ticket", but what change? He''s the same as every other politician.
Our choices are pathetic. We need a real person with real ideas to run for president.
I call garbage! :)
Both parties have great platforms, the Republicans stand for free market, uphold tradition, and try to keep spirituality alive in a world that needs moral guidance. The Democrats look to the future, to preserve our diminishing resources, our fading green spaces, and to look out for those who have less in a country that has much.
Our government is a good one, sharing the 2-party system creates a compromising air that blends the best of both parties and cuts away the crazy outter fringe groups of both. I love our nation, our government, and both parties have value.
We have gotten into a slump, where a small group of greedy power-hungry elitists are trying to make this country one-party rule. Lobbiests have used every tool in the book to ruin Washington to benefit themselves and those they work for. Politians are getting dirty, but they are also getting caught too, and the dirty ones are being weeded out, at least on the Dem side. Some real filth is being left alone on the Republican side and that is what has discredited them so much, why we are sick of what that party has allowed a few rotten apples to get away with.
The biggest failure in our political system today isn''t our politicans, it is our reporters and journalists no longer doing, or allowed to do. We need to "buy" back our media so it can report honestly and factually. Clean out the rotten apples.
I have no problem admitting that republicans squandered the opportunity the American people gave them.....from congress to Bush....most disappointing.
But in all fairness, mortgages are not Bush''s fault. The economy is cyclic....not Bush''s fault either. No more then the looming recession at the end of Clinton''s 8 years was his fault.
We haven''t been attacked since 9-11, but his failure to secure the border is a HUGE disappointment.
The time for ''getting along'' and ''working together'' only seems to happen as long as democrats are in the driver''s seat. Bush tried to work with democrats in his first term and they threw him under the bus. Still doing it.
When''s the last time you heard of Obama crossing the isle to work with republicans?
I don''t disrespect your opinion about Bush, but what you have written here is just opinion. I am talking about our future.
Obama will need to prove himself if he gets into the White House. Will you give him that chance or condemn him outright as a Democrat?
I don''t know who will get the White House and I don''t care if either McCain or Obama gets it, because I believe both have merit, and both have the capacity to do positive things. McCain has seen a few administrations and he knows what good government is. Barring his pick for VP (not another Darth Cheney please!), I like his environmental stance and I like his experience.
Obama is young and well-educated. He is not a stupid vapid man. He has held himself well against Hillary and the media and on the Senate floor. I don''t think he is biased any more than any party affiliate.
I would like to see us all a country again. I want to be one nation under God again, as a liberal, as an American, as a human being.
Patriotism transcends politics. We as a country have lost that fundamental principle and if we are to address any of our issues, we need to get our cohesiveness as a nation back. :)
Posted by LibH8er
Bush NEVER tried working with anyone who had a differing opinion from his own. I, personally, don''t care one iota if the Dems ever work together with the Repubs. I think the R Party should be destroyed and buried. It''s a diseased, currupt and filthy organization of arrogant and smug pink monkeys that never evolved past their tight-knit little group.
AS an engineer, I see things for what they are. And at age 48, I''m a prety good judge of character. Mr. Obama is a bout 1" wide and 1" deep. He''s an empty suit. A slick politician in a repackaged costume.
I have no problem voting for blacks or women, but I do have a problem with marxist/socialists wanting to run the country and the congress.
There was a time when it was like that. Even during the Vietnam way, a highly divisive conflict, politicians in Washington provided a unified front.
The only people stabbing their country in the back were Jane Fonda and Hollywood.
Now, Senators talk about how US troops ''terrorize Iraqi women and children in the dead of night'', etc. I''m afraid the line has been drawn and crossed. Not sure if it can ever be the way it was.
OK...let me say it this like this: I, Legion, have a better chance of becoming the VP than Edwards!!!
lol. Talk about a non player in American Poilitics...I give you John Edwards.
We didn''t get through the past 16 years unscarred, but we did get through. Now here is another election, another chance to try again; if not for you and me who have seen better times, a chance for our kids who only know THESE times.
Every disgruntled word against another American, every slur or belittlement for any reason hurts everyone%u2019s lives, especially our kids. We are setting examples of distrust and alienation within our own country.
Kids worry about stuff too, the climate issue, war, over-population, everything that we once felt strongly about. They are still young enough to have hope, and still young enough to do something about all the problems we are leaving them.
I believe Obama or McCain may be able to bring some fresh hope to the domestic and international scene, now that the Bush/Clinton era is passing.
I don%u2019t care if strong political discourse continues, but it shouldn%u2019t be American against American any more.
I want peace again, if not in the world, in my nation at least, and I really don%u2019t feel that is asking too much. You and I don%u2019t agree, prolly never will, but that is a far cry from us needing to hate and abuse one another because of the Letter R or the Letter D. That has never seemed a good enough reason for me to hate another American.
There is plenty enough hate out there in the world, why bring it home. (right Rush? Sure.)
I hear you, I do. I just don''t understand how you can narrow your vision of humanity to such tight parameters. Republicans are no better at ruling other humans than Democrats, no human can but fail on some point or another trying to rule other people. That you are willing to let the failures be on selective points that don''t matter to you is why you stand with a particular political affiliation. Others of us care deeply about those same points and so stand in a different group. The difference between us, you and me, is nothing more than perspective.
People are not born with a D or an R on their foreheads. They become a D or R through their heritage, their environment, their locale, their native culture, as well as conscious decision to stay with what they grew up with or turn against it. Perspective.
Obama isn''t any more shallow than you. He is an intelligent learned man who has thought out his life decisions the same as you have.
You act as if he is bringing some new virus to the US, when he is simply a Democrat like the Democrats who have sat in the Oval office before him and you are way over reacting without the benefit of even giving him a chance. And I don%u2019t mean that disrespectfully.
As a liberal McCain isn%u2019t my guy, but I have found elements of his platform I can live with if he gets elected. Why, because peace for our nation more important to me than "winning". :)
Secretary of State: Michille Marxist Obama
Secretary of Education: William Ayers
Secretary of Health: Bernadine Dorh, who thought it was a hoot Manson stuck a fork in Sharton Tate''s dead belly because she was a rich b***ch
Secretary of Transportation: Rashid Khalidi of the PLO
Secretary of Treasury: Antonin Rezko
Secretary of Defense: Che Guevara
Secretary of Interior: Richard Daley
Secretary of Agriculture: Bugs Bunny
Secretary of Labor: Edward Said
Secretary of Energy: Aiham Alsamarrae, escapee from Iraq prison, former Iraq Minister of Electricity, now teamsed up with Rezko
Secretary of Education: George Dubya Bush and leave 15,000,000 child behind
Secretary of Homeland Security: John Brennan who thinks the telecoms should be immune from prosecution
We are have our little jokes in our party:
"that the Republican "populist" President allegedly favors $1000 a pair shoes rather than the cowboy boots Rove has him put on for the cameras when George is in Texas, or that George doesn''t mind paying $2,000 to $14,000 per suit..."
$14,000 for a suit makes a $400 haircut look like Cost Cutter''s.
http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/02/20_WWJW.html
*** what is with the name calling? That is very big of you! Edwards would make an awesome VP. She shares alot more of the same interests as Obama rather than Hillary. We would be privilaged to have John as VP. He would make a better vp than anyone else. He almost saved Kerry''s worthless behind 4 years ago. So what if he spend 400 bucks on a haircut. Anyways the 400 bucks was to fly his hairstylist, not just the cut itself. We have bigger things in the country to worry about than how much a person spends on a haircut.
Posted by AaaBee at 05:50 PM : Jun 06, 2008
*** Mccain is just another bush, except Juan Mccain is even weaker on immigration! I hate Juan MCcain!
Posted by AaaBee at 06:21 PM : Jun 06, 2008
*** Juan MCcain supports amnesty. That is the biggest element of a platform you should look at. Even then democrats don''t want to give as many people amnesty as Juan Mcain would! Juan Mccain wanted to give over 12 million illegals amnesty, that is waaayyy too many! You would have to learn how to speak spanish if you want Juan Mccain as president. We will take president Obama, Mexico can have Juan Mccain as their president!
Posted by trbundro1277 at 10:29 PM : Jun 06, 2008
He would have my vote for sure, and all of my family.
Posted by trbundro1277 at 10:29 PM : Jun 06, 2008
He would have my vote for sure, and all of my family.
Posted by hbevis at 02:13 AM : Jun 07, 2008
*** Yeah, he will always have my vote, and I would also heavily try to influence my family and friends to vote for him also. It would be amazing how much of a Landslide victory us Democrats would have if Edwards was our presidential nominee!
Posted by popstom1 at 02:25 AM : Jun 07, 2008
*** It is sad that people would rather vote for Juan Amnesty Mcain rather than Obama. Instead of a black president, people would rather have a white president that lets over 12 million mexican illegals to have amnesty and become citizens! I hate Juan Mccain!
Does anyone know what Sen. Obama''s position on reparations is????
My family came to the US around 1912 will be have to pay anything??
P.S. What a waste of oxygen Edwards is. Go back to your billion dollar farm, you lying hick.
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by downsteamjim
June 7, 2008 11:04 AM PDT
- Edwards had planned to seek the vice presidency, but it conflicted with his beauty parlor schedule.
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