The ONLY reason anyone should run for Vice President is that they, or their advisers, think they would make a good president in case anything should happen.
Running for his dead son makes about as much sense as clinton's reason for being in the White House: He needed it for therapy. Leastwise, that's what some of his friends actually said. And of course Algore was promised the presidency by his daddy.
Gotta wonder how 'rats would respond if a Republican came along and said that he, too, was touched by Wade's untimely passing and because of it decided that he would enter politics to help all the other young Wades out there to hold onto some of their dreams (not to mention earnings)?
Wouldn't be much more crass and cynical than the way we've seen democrats milk sympathy votes over the last few years.
I don't care what your political ambitions or affiliations are, this is an incredibly sad thing for any parent to suffer.
That said, I wonder if the other boy was hurt or killed. I wonder if his parents sued the Edwards family because of their son's negligence.
I am certain this was an accident but how ironic that a man who became a millionaire by cashing in when someone else's accident harmed another person's child.
I can't believe that people as bright as the Edwards did not at some point consider this some sort of karma. Maybe they don't talk about it because of the terms of the settlement with the other family involved.
Obviously, I think this issue must be approached carefully and with sensitivity.
What happened to the other child in the car?
But look at it this way, this clearly indicates what the dums think about the American electorate. they want the American people to vote for them because they are sad that people die, and because they would have a VP they could look at without getting the willey's.
I truly wish JE’s son had lived a long full life.
I wish the same for all the children that have been aborted over the years.
Where is JE’s grief for them?
Oh my!! Just when you think the dims can't sink any lower, they do!
I lost my son to cancer 12 years ago, so I think I can say this with some authority. I saw that coming this morning. FOX devoted some time to this tragic episode in Edward's life. I think if he allows this, he is despicible. People are curious. That is fine, but to constantly bring it up at rallies and so forth deminishes his son's memory. In my opinion.
Using his own sons demise for self gain shows the kind of trash this sort really is.......
Stay safe Jenya !
I agree. I ache for any parent who has lost a child. I can only imagine the lifelong pain.
However, the Edwards are not unique. It happens every day, somewhere in this country. Using this for some kind of sympathy support or special "reason to run" is sickening. Furthermore, I don't buy it. I don't even see the connection.
"Edwards has avoided discussing his son's death and has never allowed it to be used as a campaign theme. But friends have said the tragedy was behind his decision to challenge Republican Sen. Lauch Faircloth in 1998, his first and only campaign before running for president and now vice president in the current election cycle. He had been mulling politics for years, and Wade had urged him to run."
If Edwards doesn't come out SECREAMING over articles like this one then he is indeed dragging his dead boy out of his grave to dance him about on the hustings for votes.
By the way: which of Edwards "friends" knows his feelings about not dragging his dead son into campaigns and went ahead and did it for him!? Yeah thats what I thought.
While interviewing consultants for the Senate race, Edwards said Wade's death was off limits. "He pretty much told every consultant -- he interviewed five or six -- that if you so much as write one word about my son or in any way use him for political purposes, you will be fired at that moment, and, to the extent that I can, I will sue you," Kirby said.
http://poynter.blogs.com/politics/2003/11/the_focused_pro.html
Think about that -- he threatened to sue people he was considering hiring if they so much as mentioned his son! I've never heard of any such politician threatening his staffers like that.
Gore also used the "almost died" son during his campaign .
I can hardly believe the Democrats are using the dead Edwards son as a political prop to push the Edwards candidacy. He was not a politician. He was a teenager. They should leave him out of this campaign.
After 2 years, I think that would create a mold problem.
I can understand not functioning if I lost one of my kids, but I do think I could pour out the Gatorade.
This will be a theme coming to a DemorcRATic convention near you, SOON!
TWICE...he used this same I am running for my son heart string pulling ploy when he ran for Senate too.
Just fits with his say anything, do anything, run over anybody TRIAL LAWYER persona.
...their Jeep veered and rolled over, apparently shoved by a gust of wind...
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I wonder if Edwards was more upset about his son or that he couldn't sue the wind.