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Just moments after former presidential candidate John Edwards endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) for president, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) vowed to “continue the fight” for Edwards’ endorsement.

“My friends, I will fight for the endorsement of John Edwards, even if it takes all summer,” she told supporters in Louisville, Kentucky. “I have not begun to fight for this endorsement!”

The New York senator appeared to brush off Mr. Edwards’ endorsement of Sen. Obama, saying, “I don’t know what that has to do with anything.”

While Sen. Clinton acknowledged that Sen. Edwards had made a joint appearance with Sen. Obama in which he endorsed the Illinois senator, she said, “If you think that’s going to make me give up trying to get John Edwards’ endorsement, you’ve got another thing coming.”

She said that she was also “unconcerned” that Sen. Edwards had recently gotten a new phone number and not shared it with her.

“Anyone who believes that I’m going to be deterred by an obstacle like that doesn’t know what I’m made of,” she said. “Mark my words, I am going to get that endorsement.”

Sen. Clinton’s aides refused to comment on her quest for Edwards’ endorsement, saying that they were too busy hiding copies of this week’s Time magazine from her.

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“Don’t stop believing.”

That’s the message from former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) one day after her disappointing showings in the North Carolina and Indiana primaries.

Even though her rival, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill), is now less than two hundred delegates from clinching the nomination, “the math favors Hillary now more than ever,” Gov. Huckabee said.

“I didn’t major in math, I majored in miracles,” he told reporters in Little Rock today. “And after Tuesday’s results, my Mircle-o-meter is tingling off the hook.”

He said that even if Sen. Obama gets a majority of the delegates, “the smart money is still on Hillary.”

“The only difference between majority and minority is spelling,” he said. “And I didn’t major in spelling.”

But even as Gov. Huckabee reminded reporters of what his major was, one of his university professors, Darren Galtheim, said that the former Arkansas governor’s field of concentration in college had been overstated.

“Mike majored in miracles, but he didn’t get A’s,” Dr. Galtheim said. “We all encouraged him to switch to an easier major, like Phys Ed.”

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After a week in which a chorus of television pundits talked about the Rev. Wright controversy ad nauseam, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama introduced a proposal today to silence such repetitious discussions.

“I am proposing a gas-bag holiday,” Sen. Obama told a capacity crowd in Indianapolis. “Under my plan, all gas-bags would go on vacation until the second week of November.”

Some observers called the Illinois senator’s plan a shrewd one since, in addition to the pundits, it seemed guaranteed to sideline the Rev, Wright himself for the next four months.

But within minutes of floating the idea of the gas-bag holiday, Sen. Obama came under fire from several prominent gas-bags, including MSNBC’s Chris Matthews.

“This whole gas-bag holiday thing raises two important questions: how much has the Rev. Wright controversy hurt Barack Obama?” he said. “Also, how much has the Rev. Wright controversy hurt Barack Obama?”

CNN’s senior gas-bag, Lou Dobbs, said that Sen. Obama’s proposal of a gas-bag holiday should make Americans “question his patriotism.”

“The right to be a TV blowhard is as American as wearing a flag pin on your lapel,” he said. “By the way, isn’t Hussein a Mexican name?”

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