“Huh?”
The Democrat presidential contenders better start staying further away from Barack Obama. His case of Foot-in-Mouth disease seems to have spread to John Edwards. More likely though, he’s just an idiot. John “Two Americas” Edwards, as you undoubtedly know, has run a campaign that Chairman Mao himself would be proud of - with an economically illiterate platform of class warfare, taxing the sucessful, socialist health care, and entitlement expansion. Then comes this from ABC:
ABC News’ Rick Klein Reports: When an Iowa resident asked former senator John Edwards Thursday whether the United States should follow the Cuban healthcare model, the 2004 vice presidential contender deflected the question by saying he didn’t know enough to answer the question.
“I’m going to be honest with you — I don’t know a lot about Cuba’s healthcare system,” Edwards, D-N.C., said at an event in Oskaloosa, Iowa. “Is it a government-run system?”
But just three days earlier, the candidate was asked a question about the Michael Moore documentary “Sicko” — which focuses extensively on the Cuban healthcare system.
As Willie Nelson’s classic “On the Road Again” blared, Edwards leaned out of a window of his campaign bus dubbed “Fighting for One America”, to hear an off-camera voice howl, “I wanted to ask ya, is it required that everyone go see “Fahrenheit 9/11″ and “Sicko”?
Edwards, in between autographs outside Dan’s Pizzeria in Onawa, Iowa, replies, “I watched Sicko,” later adding, “It’s a great movie.”
You can watch the moment captured by C-SPAN and spread to the world on YouTube by clicking here.
Guess Johnny Boy wasn’t paying too closely when he watched Sicko. How very dissapointing. Even without the Sicko reference, this quote is quite damning. Tell me, John, besides “government-run” what other kind of health care system do communist countries have? Either he doesn’t know that Cuba is communist, or he doesn’t know what communism is. Whichever it is doesn’t speak well to his intelligence. This leads me to a very profound conclusion: I am smarter than John Edwards.
Man, it does feel good to be smarter than a presidential candidate. This isn’t just any presidential candidate, though - this is the guy who was almost Vice President. And he’s running third behind Hillary and Obama. That’s big news for me. Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich – yeah, I’m smarter than them too, but that’s not nearly as impressive than being smarter than John Edwards. In fact, I’m putting that on my resume.
If John Edwards ever gets wind of this blog (and how could he not) I’m going to offer him a friendly challenge: a man-to-man, winner-take-all academic decathlon a la Billy Madison - by which I will prove to the world that I am the smarter. C’mon, John, take me up on this. I dare ya.
2 Comments
August 21, 2007 at 8:26 am
Interesting post. Reminds me of someone who has had a terminal case of foot in mouth disease for two terms now. Heaven forbid! I wonder if he caught it from Gore in the general election or mabye contracted it from Dan Quayle in the primary.
I’m intrigued to know why you think Edwards health plan is socialist? He would leave private insurance alone, mandate coverage by employers, and then create an insurance pool to cover unemployed workers and those without insurance through their job. The only difference between him and a republican plan is the pool for uninsured, and even Republicans talk about that some.
This is hardly socialized medicine unless you think covering everyone is socialism? I thought that was just common sense in the same vein as public education, given that a healthy society is more productive economically, especially the lower classes. Socialized medicine would be forcing everyone to use Medicare.
August 23, 2007 at 7:26 pm
You are not only smarter than Edwards, you’re smarter than the combined intelligence of all the democratic presidential contenders. Put that on your resume.