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Go Ed!!! Via Think Progress.

Arlen Specter won't switch, but Biden tried to convince him

By GottaLaff

Did they remember to say "pretty please"?

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) told RNN-TV that he has tried to talk Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) about switching his party affiliation to the Democrats but he's not budging, according to TPM.

Said Rendell: "We've tried. Myself, Senator Casey, Vice President Biden have tried to talk him into it, but he's bound and determined to stay a Republican."

Did they really think he'd switch teams?

Don't bet on Rendell joining the cabinet

By GottaLaff

Gov. Ed Rendell coulda been a contender, but not any more:

Here's why: If Rendell is appointed, Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor would be sworn in as governor. However, Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll -- a Democrat -- passed away last week. As a result, the Pennsylvania Senate Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati will ascend to the lieutenant governor’s office.

The catch here? Scarnati is a Republican. So Obama picking Rendell would result in a Republican becoming Pennsylvania governor.

Ed Rendell's ripping into McCain

By GottaLaff

We needed this. He's linking McCain to Big Oil and Bush. He's running down his voting record. He's blasting him on tax breaks for Big Oil, on his connections, on everything.

Ed Rendell to Bill Clinton: "Get over it"

By GottaLaff

Didn't we already come to this very conclusion? Ed Rendell agrees:

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a longtime backer of both Bill and Hillary Clinton, said Thursday it's time for the former president to move on if he is still upset about his wife's loss to Barack Obama in the prolonged Democratic primary.

Rendell, whose ardent support of Clinton proved critical in her decisive Pennsylvania win in April, said he's not sure if Bill Clinton is still upset with the ultimate result, but made clear he thinks it’s time for the former president to rally behind the party's presumptive presidential nominee.

"Bill's my friend. If that is true the way he feels, he's got to shake it off, get over it, get back in the game and help elect Senator Obama," Rendell said on MSNBC.

Many of you are dismissing him and wonder why I even bother to post about this. My answer: It's general election time now. Like it or not, agree or not, there are many, many voters out there who still revere Mr. Hillary and take their cues from him. If that weren't true, Rendell wouldn't bother to nudge him along.

The former president has come under criticism for remaining conspicuously silent with regards to his support of Obama, even more than two weeks after his wife formally ended her campaign bid. [...]

Bill Clinton, according to some reports, is specifically upset with Obama's criticisms of his administration over the course of the campaign and the media's treatment of his wife.

Hey Bill, as I said, it's the general that matters now. Not your feelings, not your wife's loss, not your ego. Something much bigger is at stake, so get over it. Unfortunately, you still have a lot of influence, so start using it constructively, okay? Okay.

Obama/Hillary potpourri

By GottaLaff
I don't claim to have deep thoughts. If I did, I'd get laughed off these pages, although that would be consistent with my being the resident court jester. But I digress. On with Shallow Thoughts:

I watched TV this morning. I do that because I have a lovely, but aging, plasma set that I could not afford today because of Bush's economy. But I digress... again. See how shallow I am?

On TV today, and on the radio, were all kinds of people making all kinds of comments about the same thing: Hillary will do "whatever it takes" to make sure a Democrat is elected in November. And what was included in "whatever it takes"? Her willingness to run for vice president. Yes, if that's what it takes, she'd make that sacrifice. Imagine how grateful Obama must be!

She's "open" to doing "whatever it takes", because without her, an Obama victory might be in jeopardy!

Another way to see that: She's reluctant to run with him and is signaling that she would turn the offer down, as was suggested last night. Or not.

Another Shallow Thought:

I watched parts of Obama's and Hillary's AIPAC speeches this morning, in between blow drying spurts. Obama got louder and stronger responses from the crowd, sometimes endless ones. The standing ovations lasted so long that I had to break away from my Revlon 1875 watt moment to see if something was wrong with the TV, what with all the extended noise (which turned out to be raucous cheers) and all. Hillary did well, too, but not as well as Obama.

Barack Obama made a point of clarifying his foreign policies, emphatically and simply. He's begun his campaign for real now.

Shallow Thought #3: Just now, on MSNBC, Ed Rendell said that Hillary would and should concede within the week. It was also reported that Obama made a call to Hillary and was certain that there would be party unity, and that a meeting between them would take place within the next few weeks. That would be swell.

Those were today's Shallow Thoughts. You never know when I might have more, although I hesitate to overwork what's left of my working brain cells.

Clinton Supporter Ed Rendell: 'Very unlikely' Clinton will win

By Paddy


Ouch. Looks like Ed may be angling for that Veep spot the pundits have tossed about. But he does toss in a little zinger at the end.

(CNN) – Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell – who has been one of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton’s biggest backers – said Wednesday that she would make a “far better candidate” than frontrunner Barack Obama in major swing states, but is “very unlikely” she will be the Democratic nominee this fall.

"I'm a realist, and I think most likely the superdelegates will give Sen. Obama the votes he needs," Rendell told Bloomberg Television Wednesday. "I don't think the DNC is going to fairly adjust what happened in Florida… So I think it's very unlikely that Senator Clinton can prevail. I think that means we're not going to field our strongest candidate."