Silky Pony: Hey, Look At Me!

Poor John Edwards, feeling all lonely in his lavish mansion. Completely ignored by the media since Obamamania has swept the planet and desperate for attention, he's tried to squeeze his way onto the media radar by announcing he doesn't want to be considered for Glowbama's VP slot.

Uh, Silky? Who even asked you?

John Edwards has ruled out being Barack Obama's running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket, according to interviews carried by two leading Spanish newspapers on Friday.

"I already had the privilege of running for vice president in 2004, and I won't do it again," Edwards was quoted by El Mundo as saying. El Pais, the country's other leading daily, carried similar comments.

Edwards, who ran for vice president under Sen. John Kerry four years ago and was a presidential candidate in this year's Democratic primaries, had been named as a possible running mate for Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Calls by The Associated Press to several Edwards aides went unanswered and independent confirmation of Friday's reports was not immediately possible.

Edwards praised Obama as a "visionary," the El Mundo interview said.

"We don't live in a dream world and we have a lot of work to do," Edwards was quoted as saying in comments the newspaper translated into Spanish. "But Obama's potential is unlimited."

We don't live in a dream world? He must not have been reading all the gushing Obama stories this week.

Meanwhile, Chucky Cheese Schumer claims Hillary Clinton would accept the role as Number Two to the visionary.

"She has said if Senator Obama should want her to be vice president and thinks it would be best for the ticket, she will serve, she will accept that. But on the other hand if he chooses someone else she will work just as hard for the party in November," Schumer, Clinton's New York colleague in the Senate, told ABC's "Good Morning America."

Says here that would not be a good idea. A really bad idea, in fact.