<p>Purely rumor, purely speculation, but it could be an interesting night tonight.</p>
<p>[John</a> Edwards Endorsing Obama Tonight: Speculation Grows - Politics on The Huffington Post](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>John Edwards Endorses Obama... GOP Prospects "Worst Since Watergate" | HuffPost Latest News)</p>
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<p>just heard it on my local NY newscast.It is Edwards endorsing Obama.</p>
<p>yep… ABC News just confirmed it.</p>
<p>[Political</a> Radar: Edwards To Endorse Obama](<a href=“http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/05/edwards-to-endo.html]Political”>http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/05/edwards-to-endo.html)</p>
<p>Does anyone care about these endorsements by the losers? Even if I was formerly for a loser (actually I was this time around), I wouldn’t just casually switch to whoever they decided to endorse. I start over.</p>
<p>Is anyone here swayed by the endorsements by losing candidates?</p>
<p>Actually my first thought wasn’t about the endorsement, but the consequences that Obama will now pick up Edwards delegates.</p>
<p>Edwards waited until he knew for sure which horse was winning. Agreed with teriwtt. The extra delegates should help. </p>
<p>The endorsement may also encourage some people who voted for Hillary to choose Obama over McCain in November.</p>
<p>I think this is setting up for an Obama-Edwards ticket, anyone else?</p>
<p>Edwards has said he would not accept a nomination for VP, though he was never asked. . .</p>
<p>I still think Edwards would be best for AG.</p>
<p>With his experience limited to that of a plaintiff’s attorney, it’s probably unlikely that Edwards would be appointed Attorney General.</p>
<p>Oh John, why did you have to drop out?
Listening to him speak right now, reminds me of exactly why I was in his camp. He just makes sense as the nominee. Now I’m waiting to hear why he is endorsing Obama. Why now, after having been silent for so long?</p>
<p>CNN has reported that the announcement is to happen tonight in Michigan at an Obama campaign stop. Edwards has apparently made up his mind that Obama’s position/campaign is more in line with his and that Clinton’s position and campaign has turned all the more to the politics of old that Edwards has stood against.</p>
<p>You rock John. That should knock the wind out of Hillary’s WV win and push that story back to page 12. Wasn’t Hillary suppose to be having a big party for her BIG donors this evening? Wonder what the conversation is about now?:)</p>
<p>Obama/Sebelius '08</p>
<p>^Like Tyler09, I also think that Obama/Edwards is a possibility, but it’s interesting that Hondu mentioned Kathleen Sebelius as a possible VP – without a doubt, she is a very capable governor and a very talented politician.</p>
<p>Every powerful man (with or without dyed hair) that turns out to support Obama risks being perceived as one more joining the herd of “powerful men ganging up against a potential first female President”. </p>
<p>When will these men realize that this can only consolidate, us older women to turn out even more strongly to support Hillary? As Cokie Roberts said on This Week “Every older woman who has worked diligently for years and tried unsuccessfully to break the glass ceiling can see this as her prize being taken away by a cute young, charming guy who just showed up on the block!”. </p>
<p>I just don’t think this will help Obama in the long run!</p>
<p>Since Obama is somewhat shy on experience himself (like Hillary), wouldn’t it make more sense for him to have a more viable running mate experience-wise than Edwards? Does a ‘double-rookie’ ticket make sense?</p>
<p>Even though Edwards endorses Obama, does it necessarily follow that his delegates would flow to Obama? Aren’t the delegates free to do what they want, especially when the candidate is no longer in the running?</p>
<p>Cokie Roberts says the darndest things. She is one of my favorite reporters!</p>
<p>The irony is that the Presidency almost never goes to the person who ‘works dilligently for years’. For several years now the Presidency has gone to the person who was new and exciting. Or in the case of George W Bush, less boring.</p>
<p>Edwards’s endorsement will help Obama in attracting some of the Regan democrats. Yay !!!</p>
<p>My personal view Obama winning will improve the race relationship tremendously.</p>
<p>Obama should choose whomever he wants to make his VP candidate as he has won it fair and squarely by the current Democratic Party rules. Clinton ran a fare and nice campaign but now for the party to get healing, she needs to ease out. Party is bigger than her egos or even Obama’s egos. She need to help party and Obama win the Presedential race. That is the bottom line. :)</p>
<p>Cokie doesn’t speak for all of us, Pharmagal. And as an older woman myself, I’m dang tired of being taken for granted–the assumption being that I should automatically want someone more like me to win–how self-involved would that be? Frankly, I find it insulting.</p>