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The Wade Edwards Foundation
(click the above title to access the web site)The Foundation is a public, non-profit organization, founded in 1996 by John & Elizabeth to honor the life and spirit of their son, Wade, who passed away on April 4, 1996 at the age of 16, by supporting in other young people the pursuit of the virtues of honor, determination, responsibility, and charity.The Foundation offers college scholarships, along with the establishment of the Wade Edwards Learning Lab in Raleigh, North Carolina. The lab offers after-school access to computers and technology tutoring for students.A Place in Time..."The modern hero is a person who does something everyone thinks they could do if they were a little stronger, a little faster, a little smarter, or a little more generous. Heroes in ancient time were the link between man and perfect beings, gods. Heroes in modern times are the link between man as he is and man as he
could be."
~Wade Edwards
June, 1995 Please view these two short videos to know who John Edwards was in this presidential race. Get to know what he could have done for this country
John Edwards supporters set up a giant sign outside the site of the Democratic debate in Las Vegas January 15, 2008.--Recent Past News Bits--John Edwards, Celebrity, and Staying In The Game
Gale Walden, Huffington Post
January 25, 2008Excerpts... "Edwards says, "I know it doesn't look good, but you know what, I'm going to keep trying," even when really he is really publically, as he says, getting his butt kicked. It's a good role model for a bunch of us getting out butts kicked in our daily life.""Chinese engineer working for an oil company. Here is what he told her about the government of the country she was visiting. "The Americans are so naïve that they don't know that the president works for me. I am his boss." It chilled us all when she came back and told us, in part because she will take this sentiment back to China with her and in part because it is so baldly true. Edwards is the only candidate trying to pull back the corporate curtain,..."Story here...First, every time I see Bill Clinton lately I think he's Dick Van Dyke, and I'm happy. Then his finger comes out and points and I think, "Oh, it's just Bill Clinton. I wish she had left him." Every time. Second, Ron Paul has begun to remind me of Pat Paulsen of the Smothers Brothers fame, who continually ran a joke campaign for President. (A very Ron Paulish Pat Paulsen quote: "All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.") Third, when I see John Edwards smile, I think of Dennis Quaid. But I have no celebrity reference for either Senator Obama or Senator Clinton. They both have achieved a type of iconoclasm that only a celebrity of say, Oprah's stature, transcends. Like Madonna or Cher, neither Barack nor Hillary really needs a last name.Contrast this to John Edwards who has to appear with an actual celebrity before he gets news coverage. If he appears on Letterman, the New York Times will cover him. Not to bite the hand that doesn't feed me, but it hasn't been only mainstream media outlets that have backed off on covering John Edwards (and Joe Biden and Chris Dodd before him) unless he is surrounded by Kevin Bacon or Bonnie Raitt. Alternative outlets like Salon.com and The Huffington Post have also been Obama/Clinton-centric, begging the question of their importance in expanding political dialogue. The Edwards campaign put together an ad called "Where is John," a video compilation of all the ways media types went out of their way not to mention him that is worthy of The Daily Show.Those of us who feel that Edwards is the one speaking most closely to our nation's current predicament actively search for articles about him and because the articles tend to be pejorative, we go to the reader comments for people who fight back against the prevailing narrative trajectory. In these comments there are always people who bemoan the Edwards coverage and there is always some guy who says: "Edwards couldn't beat Dick Cheney in the 2004 vice-presidential campaigns." I didn't remember the vice-presidential debates and I always thought since no one wrote back that Edwards probably did put in a poor showing. But I finally went back and looked at the transcripts http://www.debates.org/pages/trans2004b.html. Edwards is almost prescient in some things. Cheney lied through a lot of it. As far as I can tell in the debate Edwards challenged those lies point by point.I don't know any of these candidates personally, so I don't know who is untrustworthy, and who is sleazy, and who is true. I think it's fair to question John Edwards senate voting record. But I don't want him out of this race before the convention and I hope enough people vote for him to keep that going.Here's why: for one thing I would really miss the facial expressions of all the pundits while shaking their heads in puzzlement, trying to explain to another pundit why Edwards is still in the race, when they have told him he is done. David Brooks, after Edwards came in second in Iowa wrote this sentence: "John Edwards political career is probably over." Note it's not just his run for the presidency that's done, it's his entire political career, even though the guy is 54. When Edwards stayed in the race Brooks on The News Hour, raised his shoulders, shook his head and said, "they aren't getting out. They've got a dog in." Adam Nagourney's mouth turned down even more than usual as he tried to give a Cliff note version of The Idiot's Guide To The Primaries : "You know, at a certain point, the election system works a certain way," he gravely informed Gwen Ifill. "People see you and they either like you or don't and vote accordingly. People have seen him and they've made judgment on him. So, I mean, I guess he's going to keep on going, but I think, you know, he certainly is living on borrowed steam right now, I think.But that's just good, clean, fun, seeing which one of them can contort their faces or bodies more or sigh or shake their heads in a more serious way. What's more disturbing are the pundits and Obama supporters who somehow suggest that Edwards is spoiling an Obama nomination--a gut feeling that isn't born out by any scientific research. You guys should stop it. It makes Obama look bad and weak. Taunting Edwards to get out of the race by calling him a loser and then blaming him for a possible Obama loss is a bullying technique that Obama doesn't need rubbing off on him.I want Edwards to stay in this race because I like the underdog narrative and I like seeing it play out someplace other than Hollywood, where someone like say, Dennis Quaid, gets a miraculous second chance at the major league. I think it's good that this Edwards guy says, "I know it doesn't look good, but you know what, I'm going to keep trying," even when really he is really publically, as he says, getting his butt kicked. It's a good role model for a bunch of us getting out butts kicked in our daily life.But the primary reason I want Edwards to stay in the race is this: I worked last year in a building that also housed the university visiting Chinese scholars. One of the scholars went to Houston to meet a Chinese engineer working for an oil company. Here is what he told her about the government of the country she was visiting. "The Americans are so naïve that they don't know that the president works for me. I am his boss." It chilled us all when she came back and told us, in part because she will take this sentiment back to China with her and in part because it is so baldly true. Edwards is the only candidate trying to pull back the corporate curtain, the only candidate addressing what I think is a core of our true domestic problems. If he's gone I think that discussion goes with him.On the day George Harrison died, my coffee shop guy, Mike, handed me a cup of coffee and remarked: "Now only the bad Beatles are left." I actually like all the Beatles; I'm not sure I would have put George ahead of Paul and Ringo has always been underrated, but I understood what Mike meant. Now that Biden, Richardson, Dodd and Kucinich are gone, if Edwards gets out of the game, I will feel like we have only the bad Beatles left.
John Edwards greeting supporters Tuesday night (1/8) in Manchester, N.H., as the returns came in."John Edwards: He's Our Man!"
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards took his third-place New Hampshire finish in stride, pledging to carry his battle forward despite difficult odds. "I am in this race until the convention," he told supporters.Edwards had campaigned on a message of ridding Washington of special-interest corruption, and he made clear that despite finishing well behind his two main rivals he would not change course as the race heads toward "Super Tuesday" next month."I am in this race until we have actually restored the American dream and strengthened and restored the middle class in America," he said.Edwards had 17 percent of the vote, compared to 39 percent for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and 37 percent for Sen. Barack Obama. Edwards, a former North Carolina senator and 2004 Democratic vice presidential contender, finished second in Iowa's Democratic caucuses last week."Two races down, 48 states left to go," he said.Edwards offered his congratulations to Clinton and Obama, but insisted that "I intend to be the nominee of my party.""Up until now, about half of 1 percent of Americans have voted. Ninety-nine percent plus have not voted. And those 99 percent deserve to have their voices heard because we have had too much in America of people's voices not being heard," Edwards said.His wife, Elizabeth, who spoke before Edwards, said, "This day, we have taken steps. Not as big steps as we wanted. But ones of which we're enormously proud.""You never get anything if you don't work for it," she said.Edwards campaigned long and hard in the state in the days before Tuesday's primary, up one side of New Hampshire and down the other, including a 36-hour stint over the weekend.As Obama surged in the polls, Edwards offered a blend of change and experience."I do think it's likely that as we go forward that all of us, particularly Senator Obama, will be looked at very carefully by voters," he said in an interview earlier Tuesday with The Associated Press."With all of the sort of gauziness, it's sort of like a first date in a lot of ways with these candidates," Elizabeth Edwards said. "At some point people recognize that 'I'm not going on a first date with this fellow, I'm marrying them.'"She said voters may regret not applying such tough scrutiny to George W. Bush eight years ago."People said, 'Is this the guy you want to have a beer with,' and look what happens," Mrs. Edwards said. "Maybe we need to take a more in-depth view of what it is you're buying."In 2004, Edwards won the South Carolina primary, but he faces tougher odds in this year's contest on Jan. 26. He trails both Obama and Clinton in polls.Oh my goodness please watch this exceptional video footage from yesterday (1/6) in New Hampshire with John Edwards and Timothy Robbins - yes, the Tim Robbins!!
"All-action Edwards Works Round the Clock", story by Richard Adams in Washington, January 7th, Guardian UnlimitedPresidential candidates often call on America to "wake up", but John Edwards is bringing that message to voters literally.It may not be showing in the opinion polls, but the Democratic contender is attempting to win votes from an unusual demographic: insomniacs.How else do you explain a hyperactive itinerary that saw Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, make a total of 13 appearances across snow-bound New Hampshire today, running deep into the night and not pausing even in the early hours of the morning.
John Edwards is surrounded by supporters as he leaves a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire. Photograph: Matt Campbell/EPA The couple launched a whirlwind 36-hour bus tour of the state, beginning on Sunday and ending in the early hours of today - the day polls open.Those on the late shift or unable to sleep were able to meet Edwards at 2am today in Berlin, a small town practically in Canada, where around 30 hardy supporters turned out.If that was too early - or too late - then the awake and curious could still have caught up with the Democratic contender and his wife in Littleton, a city on the border with Vermont, at Miller's Cafe at 4am.There, Elizabeth Edwards told 20 supporters that her husband was in it for the long haul - if that wasn't already obvious.Early birds joined the pair at the more civilised hour of 6.30am at the Daddy Pops Tumble Inn Diner in Claremont. There, according to one blogger, Edwards told customers they should judge him by his exhausting schedule. " it=""Ronald Reagan won the 1984 presidential election by running on a message proclaiming: "It's morning again in America."Based on his last two days, Edwards wants to win this primary on a slogan saying: "It's morning, afternoon, evening - and morning again in New Hampshire".John Edwards on the cover of Newsweek Magazine, 12/24/07 editionClick here for the Newsweek article- The Road Warrior -Here's an excerpt:..."His high-school friend John Mashburn remembers Edwards as a leader. "In a little redneck town, he was different," he says. There was still racial tension in Robbins in the early 1970s, and black students were sometimes mistreated. In protest, several of them once held a sit-in. Edwards persuaded his white friends to join in. "Johnny got a lot of the athletes, myself, our girlfriends … he was instrumental in encouraging us," Mashburn says. John Frye, another high-school friend, says it was a gutsy thing to do. He "stuck his neck out," Frye recalls. "There was a price to pay in how some folks treated him after that. We had people who didn't embrace desegregation even though it had been a bridge crossed years earlier."...Idaho for Edwards Groups: