BREAKING--Obama may announce CHET EDWARDS as running mate in minutes

AP ^ | 22 August 2008 | LIZ SIDOTI

[Paladin2b]

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama prepared to name his running mate, perhaps as early as Friday, from a small field o0f candidates that included at least one dark horse.

[jpl]

Chet Edwards??

That would easily be the most inexperienced, unknown ticket with a big letter next to it in all of American history.

[elc]

Because they printed a million Obama/Edwards bumperstickers a month ago and it would be a shame to waste them.

Very good. Gave me a good laugh. If this turns out to be true I'll tell you now that I'm stealing it and may or may not credit you. (There's probably a Biden joke that would fit in nicely here, but I'm too busy eating lunch to think of one.)

[green iguana]

Nevermind... They just retracted it.

[Mr. Silverback]

As far as I could tell, I was the only guy in my entire squadron who voted for Clinton in 1992. This will have zero real effect on the military vote.

[Mr. Silverback]

He says on his House website that he’s got a 100% rating.

Why bother lying...and how would a guy with an F from the NRA get re-elected 9 times in a Texas district?

[wardaddy]

if he goes for Bayh or Chet, he’s skeered.

[Diogenesis]

Chet Edwards is Nancy Pelosi’s monkey.

In this spineless Congress, which one isn't?

[Norman Bates]

Is that a marginal district?

[crusty old prospector]

There is absolutely no way Obambi is going to carry Texas. Even if he has George W. Bush as his running mate.

[Liberty Valance]

from your wiki link ...

"...After graduation, he ate big tacos and worked as an aide to Congressman Olin E. Teague for three years."

Big Tacos, Big Oil .... same thing.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I think it's still (((gag))) Hillary.

Obama wants to win, and even though he mouthed the words at the Saddleback debate, he doesn't really believe in evil.

Socialists never do.

[Miss Didi]

And now Rush is blasting the “man child” over his anti-American remarks regarding China and Russia yesterday. RUSH: I don’t understand his lack of gratitude for the greatest place on earth!

[Mr. Silverback]

The funny thing is, he’s apparently such a blue dog that Obama would be picking a gy who backs most of the things Obama says are wrong with the country. Not smart.

[twigs]

I heard Biden say that he would not be the running mate as though he knew it for certain. I figured then that he had been told for sure he was not Obama’s choice.

[Burma Jones]

A congressman that no one outside of Texas has ever heard of? As a Texan, I know Edwards only as a supposedly moderate Dem who represents a conservative area (Waco etc.) and who always seems to hang on every two years, but even I couldn’t have picked him out of a lineup before today. I don’t see what this does for O. Obama “balanced” the ticket by picking someone to his right? There are only about 75 Dem Senators and Governors who fit that bill, each of whom has won at least one statewide election, and some of whom might actually help him win a state. Hard to believe he goes this route.

[xzins]

The logical choice is Hillary.

[Mr. Silverback]

The draft ended in 1973, a year before this guy graduated. That means it’s likely he was deferred for at least a year or two.

On September 2nd, 2004, John Kerry called out Dick Cheney as a coward because Cheney had received deferments. And his deferment-recipient veepmuffin grinned and applauded on the stage behind him.

[Norman Bates]

Seems to be a contradiction. ConservativefromGA says F rating.

[BigEdLB]

Obama picks an unknown Veep?....

Ahhhh.... Ok... Works for me.... LOL!

[Mr. Silverback]

He was bor in ‘51. That means he turned 18 in ‘69 and he was in college for a couple of years of draft eligibility—He graduated with his bachelors in ‘74 and the draft ended in ‘73.