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Home Front: Politix
Pelosi pushes Texas lawmaker as Obama running mate
2008-08-04
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is behind on a dark horse in the Democratic veepstakes: Rep. Chet Edwards of Texas.

"I hope he will be the nominee," Pelosi said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

Edwards, first elected in 1990 and now in his ninth term, represents Texas' 17th District, which includes Waco, College Station, Fort Hood and the small town of Crawford, where President Bush has a ranch. He serves as a senior member on the House appropriations and budget committees and has guided funding measures for military veterans.
Posted by:gorb

#11  Obama, I'd say do it - Pelosi has been right on SO many things, yes?
Posted by: OldSpook   2008-08-04 21:31  

#10  Pelosi pushes Texas lawmaker as Obama running mate

Sheila Jackson Lee immediately came to mind.
Posted by: ed   2008-08-04 20:29  

#9  Makes you wonder who's going to be pulling the strings in any Obama presidency. Doubt it'd be Obama.
Posted by: Nero Phamp7355   2008-08-04 20:25  

#8  Well, Fast Eddie is kinky, but he wasn't the Kinky I was thinking of, sorry.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2008-08-04 16:26  

#7  If Bush would pardon Edwin Edwards maybe he could be put on the ticket - he's living in Texas, last I knew. And he even has executive experience!
Posted by: Menhaden S   2008-08-04 15:35  

#6  The politicians are teasing us anyway. They keep saying they'll get a Texan to run, and year after year they get someone who isn't Kinky.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2008-08-04 15:20  

#5  I've never heard of him. I suspect most people would get confused and think that John Edwards was back on the ticket.

Maybe they'd already had a bunch of bumper stickers made up when the first Edwards' indiscretions caught up with him and now they have to recycle them by finding a different candidate with the same name.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2008-08-04 15:11  

#4  I've never heard of him. I suspect most people would get confused and think that John Edwards was back on the ticket.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2008-08-04 11:07  

#3  Pelosi's pimping-out of Chet Edwards is causing the lefties an intramural debate over this guy.
Posted by: mhw   2008-08-04 09:36  

#2  BO could make a lot of worse choices. Assuming BO would win anyway, I wouldn't mind seeing Edwards as VP. Like Cheney, he'd be a lot better qualified for President than the one elected. I don't know anything about his ethical 'lapses' but figure they're comparable to most successful politicians'. The fact that Pelosi is for him is unnerving though.
Posted by: Menhaden S   2008-08-04 09:07  

#1  Considering Nancy's part in the Congressional polls, I'd move Chet to the top of the list, O.
Posted by: Bobby   2008-08-04 06:13  

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