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The son of a mill worker, and reared in rural North Carolina, Edwards contends that the middle-class values instilled in him as a child are not shared by a president who values wealth over work and whose policies neglect the majority of Americans to benefit the privileged few. On hand to moderate the Q&A was John Diaz, editorial page editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.