UPDATE: Make that four more. In addition to the two superdelegates below, the Obama campaign has won the endorsements of Hawaii Rep. Mazie Hirono and Laurie Weahkee, a New Mexico superdelegate and lead organizer for the Native American Voters Alliance.

The Obama campaign announced this afternoon the endorsement of two more superdelegates: California DNC Member Ed Espinoza and Wilber Lee Jeffcoat, the South Carolina Democratic Party vice chair.

The four endorsements give Obama a total of seven superdelegate endorsements today.

Clinton picked up one superdelegate today: Pennsylvania Rep. Chris Carney.

Ted Kennedy told Al Hunt on Bloomberg TV he doesn't see the dream ticket coming to pass:

MR. HUNT: What's your view of an Obama-Clinton ticket?

SEN. KENNEDY: I don't think it's possible.

MR. HUNT: You don't. And what type of vice president choice do you think he should make? What type of person?

SEN. KENNEDY: Well, the first is always a demand that you're going to have someone that's going to be able to assume the responsibility. I would hope that he would also give consideration to somebody that has - is in tune with his appeal for the nobler aspirations of the American people. And I think if we had real leadership - as we do with Barack Obama - in the number-two spot as well, it'd be enormously helpful.

Whether Kennedy meant it this way or not, I'm sure many will read that last part as an indictment against Hillary Clinton for not offering "real leadership."

New television ad, title "Level:"

Says Obama is "presumptive nominee." Who's going to argue with Rahmbo? Not me.

Set aside the he-said, she-said aspect to the McCain-didn't-vote-for-Bush-in-2000 story for a second to savor the flawless irony of Arianna Huffington telling the New York Times that "she chose to speak out now because she felt Mr. McCain had abandoned his principles."

This is a woman who jettisoned her principles and raced across the ideological spectrum from one extreme to the other faster than a six-legged cheetah.

I have to recall, as I did a few years ago when she ran for Governor of California, Ed Rollins' searing description of Arianna from his 1996 memoir, "Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms," where he recounted his experience managing Michael Huffington's 1994 Senate run:

Since early July, I'd been working for two of the most unprincipled political creatures I'd ever encountered. One was such a complete cipher he gave empty suits a bad name. But his wife was even worse - a domineering Greek Rasputin determined to ride her husband's wealth to political glory at any cost....

Arianna Huffington had charmed me out of my socks to get me to manage her husband's campaign. But in a few short months, I'd come to realize that she was the most ruthless, unscrupulous, and ambitious person I'd met in thirty years in national politics - not to mention that she sometimes seemed truly pathological.

You have to hand it to her, though, the ambition and the transformation have paid off handsomely. The further left Arianna has gone, the more success she's had (in a way not totally dissimilar from Ann Coulter on the right), and in just a few short years she's become a doyenne of progressives.

Fox News's "Fox and Friends"

Geraldo Rivera, on Bill Clinton's outburst during his recent campaign speech: "He's right. Hillary Clinton tried her best to pass universal health care. She was filibusted and ridiculed. But that's not the issue. The issue is the demeanor of the former president in a contentious environment with the days dwindling down to a precious few. Clearly he was ticked in a way that was barely controllable, barely presidential, but very husbandly."

On Hillary Clinton's comments on her support among white voters: "Why not say working, or blue collar, or rural, or Reagan Democrats. There are so many different euphamistic ways to make the point, which is true. No one doubts the truth. ... Clearly there is a racial and unavoidable divide. ... But to say it that way, in that blunt, and in some ways wrong way, can only exasperate..."

MSNBC's "Morning Joe"

John Edwards, asked if who he voted for in the N.C. primary is who he'll endorse: "I'd say highly likely, yes." Asked for whom he voted for: "For now, to myself. Because right now it feels like the right thing to do. People on television act like these endorsements are a big deal. I may have missed something, but I think Barack Obama is doing pretty well without my endorsement." Asked if he and his wife voted for the same person: "Oh, I'm not answering that."

Asked if he was holding out on endorsing so he could be a broker that brings the primary process to an end: "That is an absurd concept. The notion that a failed presidential candidate has that kind of power. ... It's true that I have enormous respect for both of them. I do. ...[Obama] is clearly the likely nominee at this point."

On Clinton continuing to argue that Obama is not electable: "I think that they've been in a tough fight. And it's hard to change, to move off of that. I think about when I made the decision to get out of the race. ... It became pretty clear to me that I was not going to be the nominee. And I believed that since it looked like I wasn't going to win, number one, and number two, I believed that it was better for the process to end sooner rather than later, that I was not being helpful to our party or to our cause."

More on Clinton: "To have to get up today, under these circumstances, and go out there and face the media and face crowds and continue to make your case -- that takes a strength and toughness that is amazing. You can't help but admire it. However you criticize her for the specifics of what she's contending, that takes a strength that is admirable. ... But because she plays such an important role in the future of this country, and as a result the future of the world, she does have to ask herself, 'Where are the lines; at what point am I not advocating for myself, instead I'm doing damage for the cause I care about.'" (Video)

Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan, on her column today: "I think Mrs. Clinton crossed a serious line, in the USA Today newspaper yesterday. She said essentially, 'I've got white voters.' I thought that was so startling. An Obama sympathizer got on the phone with me and said, 'Even Richard Nixon ... in the Southern strategy didn't say white.'"

Pat Buchanan, responding to Noonan: "What we seem to be saying is, it's verboten for her to say what everybody else is talking about. And maybe she shouldn't have said it, but frankly..." Noonan: "Pat, it's verboten for a great leader of a great nation to speak of the nation in such slice-and-dice, tear-'em-up kind of way. That's not how you keep everybody together. ... You know, you don't say, 'I got the Irish.' It's vulgar."

ABC's "Good Morning America"

George Stephanopoulos on Obama taking the lead in super delegates for the first time: "That means he leads in every important metric...he is consolidating this victory, moving toward unifying the party. They've got a new strategy they're starting to implement today where they're playing down the race against Senator Clinton and playing up the general election against John McCain."

On news of a potential Hillary Clinton VP slot: "Lots of very quiet waltzing with intermediaries...this would be the end of the end game if this were finally to come to pass."

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NBC's "Today"

John Edwards on whether Clinton can still win: "I think she's made a very strong case for her candidacy, the problem she has is its very difficult to make the math work."

On whether Jeremiah Wright will hurt Obama in the general election, "Most Americans are fair minded, they're not going to blame Barack Obama for what someone else said."

(Greg Bobrinskoy contributed to the Morning Roundup)

Woodrow Wilson's ancestral home in Northern Ireland was nearly burned to the ground, but was saved in the nick of time by superdelegates firefighters .

Leno is feeling inspired by Hillary:

Letterman cracks that Hillary has a substantial lead in at least one state:

Vito Fosella, adding to the embarrassment of being busted for drunk driving last week:

Representative Vito J. Fossella, the Staten Island Republican who was arrested on drunken-driving charges in Virginia last week, acknowledged on Thursday that he had fathered a daughter, now 3, in an extramarital affair. But he declined to address questions about his political future.

Reid had an advance on this story yesterday, as well as a look at Fosella's district should he decide to retire - which is looking more likely with each passing news cycle.

A good start to the day in the super department for Mr. Obama:

DeFazio throws support to Obama On Thursday night, Rep. Peter DeFazio became Oregon's third Democratic congressman to endorse Sen.Barack Obama, putting the Illinois politician one delegate closer to the presidential nomination.

Congressman Payne, NJ superdelegate, switches from Clinton to Obama
Rep. Donald Payne (D-10th Dist.), a New Jersey superdelegate who had been supporting Hillary Clinton for president, has switched his allegiance to Barack Obama.

"After careful consideration, I have reached the conclusion that Barack Obama can best bring about the change that our country so desperately wants and needs," Payne told The Star-Ledger for today's editions. It was "one of the most difficult decisions I have made," Payne said. "I've really been mulling it over for quite a while."

Overall, Obama is closing in on Clinton in the super delegate department, though Dan Balz writes today not to expect Clinton to exit the race until they've all declared. And even then, of course, they can always change their minds right up until the first ballot in Denver.