CNN: "Sen. Hagel has no intention of getting involved in any of the campaigns, and is not planning to endorse either candidate," Hagel spokesman Jordan Stark said.
The two-term senator from Nebraska is leaving office after his current term and will be overseas on official business during this year's party conventions, Stark said.
Hagel is a longtime friend of Sen. John McCain, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, and briefly mulled a 2008 presidential bid of his own. But he has butted heads with McCain and other leading Republicans over the war in Iraq and sharply criticized McCain's campaign in July for its attacks on Obama.
Tuesday, after endorsing Obama, former Rep. Jim Leach of Iowa, a Republican, said he hoped the Illinois senator would consider Hagel as his running mate or for "a serious position in an Obama administration."
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Hagel Won't Be Obama's Vice President
Today his spokesperson said Chuck Hagel doesn't plan to endorse anyone. I guess all the talk about him being a possible Obama running mate forced him to say something. Who's left for Veep? Jack Reed? Sam Nunn? Tim Kaine? Kathleen Sebelius?
