Wasn't Obama going to oll out 50 supers after TX and OH?

I agree that Edwards needs to do something. I feel bad for him. If all this stuff about Obama (Rezko, Wright, etc) would have come out sooner, he would have been able to stay in the race and may very well given Clinton a good run and won the nomination.

You said: "Still, I think Edwards could get whatever cabinet post he wanted (i.e. Sec. of Labor, HHS, AG)."

I don't think Edwards seeks a cabinet post.

Gore has not endorsed either.  Maybe they are smart.
 

The Obama camp was feeding this meme to the media. I recall talking heads parroting it a few days before Texas and Ohio. After Hillary won, that big roll out stopped in it's tracks.

Obama also hoped American people will ignore his hypocrisy on race/connections with Wright and get duped easily when he tells them lies while looking straight into their face.

PS: In some of the Wright interviews, he wasnt even looking at the interviewer while lying he was never present there.

A human can't avoid guilty feelings. Alas, I was told he isnt a human, he was Messiah.

Interesting question in the back of a lot of people's minds.  A lot of people who have hesitated to endorse (and not just politicians) have secretly preferred Clinton but didn't want to be excoriated by the vicious Obama supporters.  That said, I think Ewards is going to endorse Obama.  I'm only surprised he hasn't done it sooner.  There's not a lot of payback to attacking Clinton, let alone not supporting her.  She's been very forgiving--probably too forgiving, considering her relationship with Murdoch--all along.  The smart political move would be to endorse Obama and make up to Hillary later if he has to.  Obama carries a grudge, and I don't think his supporters would ever forgive Edwards for a Clinton endorsement.  They're really much more passionate about their candidate than Clinton supporters.

This campaign season has yet to include an endorsement that meant a damn thing, unless I'm overlooking somebody. Certainly the highest profile endorsements (Kennedy, Kerry) have been meaningless.

If I'm Edwards, I just stay out of it. Obviously he doesn't have a real strong preference, or he'd have already come out. This way he still has cache with the candidate whoever it is.

Why would supers be eager to jump on the Obama bandwagon now, at the peak of the Wright controversy?

Don't forget that they have their own careers to tend after.

JRE will endorse Obama before NC.

I think the repugs better quit with the Wright stuff because I have a feeling that there is a picture of Bush with Rev Wright.

My take on it is that John and Elizabeth let themselves get to a place where they genuinely disliked Clinton personally. They seem to be having trouble stepping back from that - and the truth of the matter is that they have their plate full in terms of what they need to process. OTOH, Clinton was very kind of them when their son died (John was not yet senator - their son had won a competition and had met Hillary as the winner a few weeks before his death - Hillary came to his funeral) and her campaign has done a better job of wooing him. However, he reportedly is having trouble backing away from some of the harsher positions he took against her.

Clinton's actual platform and the spirit of her platform is much more in keeping with what Edwards' was about than what Obama's was about. I expect to see an endorsement sooner or later, but maybe not unless it becomes essential.

I agree that Edwards is unlikely to endorse at this point, and if so, he would endorse Obama.  But to me, that doesn't explain what he plans on doing long term.

Does he want to be part of an Obama or Clinton Administration?  Some don't think so.

Does he want to be the Al Gore of poverty?  That UNC center of his seems to be discontinued.

If someone could answer my main question, what he should or plans to do with himself, I would love to know.

Edwards and Gore probably have more power in their endorsements by waiting. They could be defacto king makers if the race continues to tighten. I don't believe either endorses before PA. If PA is close they might go endorse Obama, but it's a Hillary blowout they may wait longer, or endorse Hillary. But I think both endorsements will come late, maybe not until late may or early june, and they could have a lot of sway on supers.

I guess that's what you do when you have no real momentum.

I think his considerations are a little different than the typical pol jockeying for position.

I think JRE is looking at the Al Gore model of being a high profile advocate without portfolio. Why on earth would he want to be a cabinet officer? Those are terrible jobs unless you just need some ego boost of being the head of something...or intend on doing a post gov lobbying gig. The only conceivable job that Edwards would want would being a Czar for rebuilding New Orleans. At least if he was given some power and autonomy.