But you know, we're so conditioned.

We're conditioned to say the same things, we're conditioned to say what's safe.

We're conditioned to be political and it's hard to share all that.

I think it helps though that you guys are filming all the time.

John Edwards was a rising star in the Democratic Party.

He was young and energetic, smart, handsome and personable.

And the American voters seemed to be responding.

In 2004, Edwards was chosen by John Kerry to be his running mate during his failed bid for the presidency.

Two years later, Edwards launched his own campaign to become the next president of the United States.

Much like the man who would eventually win the presidency in 2008,

one of the ways that John Edwards had strengthened his campaign was by embracing new technology and new forms of media.

He utilized the internet to solicit donations and organize volunteers.

And his campaign built a modern website, complete with a video series that contained exclusive buy in the scenes footage of Edwards on the campaign trail.

In one of those web episodes, John was mid-flight working on a speech that he was planning to deliver at his next campaign stop later that day.

He was so glad you liked it.

I love you.

Why don't you hear me give it life?

The other voice you hear in the video belongs to a woman named Raya Hunter.

Raya was the producer of the web series, and she was given unlimited access to John and his campaign as she followed him all over the nation.

John joked that Raya Hunter and her crew were filming him all the time,

but he felt that it was worth it because the short films helped humanize him and the eyes of the voter.

John was further humanized by his current struggles at home.

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