Nothing Hit Me Like the Death of My Son, but I Will Never Exploit It to Win Votes ; Tragedy Which Drives Edwards to White House

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SENATOR John Edwards, the so-called pretty boy of the Democratic party, is the man who would be president.

He is John Kerry's running mate and is expected to help the party win vital southern states and oust George W Bush from power.

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Nothing Hit Me Like the Death of My Son, but I Will Never Exploit It to Win Votes ; Tragedy Which Drives Edwards to White House

But for Edwards, vice-presidency would just be a temporary position until he moves his bags into the White House one day himself.

However, his ambition of sitting in the Oval Office by 2012 would never have come about without a tragedy that changed his life for ever.

On April 4, 1996, his 16-year-old son Wade - with a similar haircut and the same inte...