U.S. Democratic Presidential candidate
and former Senator John Edwards (D-NC) shakes his fist as he campaigns at
the Friendship Haven Celebration Center in Fort Dodge, Iowa Jan. 1,
2008.(Xinhua/Reuters File Photo) Photo
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WASHINGTON,
May 16 (Xinhua) -- Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards denied
the speculations on Friday that he would be Barack Obama's running partner.
"No," Edwards said in an interview with NBC's Today
show. "Won't happen ... It's just not something I am interested in."
But the former North Carolina Senator did not rule
out the possibility to take a role in an Obama's administration should he
elected president in November.
"I don't really want to get involved in that
speculation," he said. "Right now we have to focus on getting Barack Obama
elected to President of the United States, then we'll worry about those things."
But he said that Obama had told him, "I want you on
my team. I want you to help both in the campaign and with the work we want to do
when I'm the president."
Edwards was named Democratic vice presidential
nominee in 2004. In his second bid for the White House in 2008, he dropped out
of the presidential race in January after failing to win any early primaries.
Eight of the 19 delegates Edwards gained in the race
have pledged their support to Obama since he endorsed the Illinois Senator to
become the first African American president in the country.
Edwards denied his endorsement, which came a day
after Obama's rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, overwhelmingly won the West
Virginia primary, had been deliberately timed to take the wind out of her
victory.
"It was the right time to do it. I made the decision
that the public should know at this point what my view is," he
said.
BEIJING,
May 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton acknowledged she made a mistake Wednesday when she suggested in a
newspaper interview that her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, was having trouble
winning over "hardworking ... white Americans."
Told that a top black supporter, Rep. Charles Rangel,
D-N.Y., had called the remark "the dumbest thing you could have possibly said,"
Clinton said "Well, he's probably right." Full
story
LOS ANGELES, May 15 (Xinhua)
-- With her campaign deep in debt, U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton is attending two
fundraisers here Thursday in what could be her final visit to Southern
California as a 2008 presidential candidate.
One of the two events is at the Century Plaza Hotel near
Los Angeles and already "sold out," Sim Farar, one of Clinton's national finance
chairs, told a local political news website Thursday. Full story
