Pat Dollard | Young Americans

ABC News’ Raelyn Johnson reports: One day after endorsing Sen. Barack Obama, the presumtive Democratic nominee, former Sen. John Edwards says he is not angling to become a vice presidential candidate.

“I have no interest in running for VP,” said Edwards, arriving at an event in New York City Thursday evening.

For some, Obama and Edwards standing Wednesday on a Michigan stage with their arms raised looked like a possible Democratic convention scenario — with the pair standing on stage as the Democratic ticket.

Edwards aides also said the former senator was not eyeing a vice presidential bid, and that no deal was cut for his heavily courted endorsement.

On the possibility of being picked as an attorney general nominee, Edwards told reporters, “I don’t have any thoughts about any of that.”

Edwards was in New York attending an event sponsored by Demos, a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization.

Edwards took the stage and quickly revived his stump speech, but paused to hold back tears when speaking about working-class Americans.

“Every time I see any of these people, I see my father,” said Edwards as he began to choke up.

He continued, “Who I watched, for a long time, 30-some-odd years, go in the mill every day so that I could be in this place.

“Every man and woman who works in these hotels, who works in our nursing homes, who work as security guards — every one of them is worth as much as me and every person in this room.”

Edwards spoke very briefly about his recent endorsement of Obama.

“God bless, Barack Obama; I only endorsed him because he used to be a member of Demos,” said Edwards. “But God bless Barack and God bless Hillary and, begrudgingly, John McCain.”

In addressing the several hundred people, Edwards said he believed that a Democrat would be elected to the White House in 2008, but cautioned, “The idea that that president is going to solve all of our problems is a fantasy. All of us have to be there every step of the way, from the ground up. This is about organizing. It is about educating. This is what demos is about.”

Edwards was originally slated to attend the event with his wife, Elizabeth Edwards, who was absent from Wednesday’s Obama endorsement. When asked where Elizabeth stood in the endorsement process, Edwards declined to speak for his wife.

He acknowledged that he is working with Obama, figuring out their schedules to see what type of support Edwards can lend to Obama’s campaign. Edwards is also encouraging his remaining pledged delegates to switch to Obama.

As for alerting Clinton to his endorsement, Edwards acknowledged, “I called her. We kept missing each other. I tried to speak with her.”