Rush Is Right (But Only About John Edwards)

Here's the background:

ABC News' Rick Klein reports, "When an Iowa resident asked former Senator John Edwards whether the U.S. should follow the Cuban health care model, Edwards deflected the question, saying he didn't know enough to answer it." [Former-Senator Edwards] said, "Well, I'm going to be honest with you, I don't know a lot about Cuba's health care system. Is it a government-run system?"

Political Commentator Rush Limbaugh said it best:

Rush: "This is worse than Dukakis and the tank. This is worse than Dan Quayle spelling potato with an e on it. This ought to disqualify him. He doesn't know what Cuba's health care system is? "Is it a government-run system?" I think this comes close to Gerald Ford with that faux pas in his debate where he said that the Eastern bloc of countries was not under Soviet domination. A guy running for president, we just heard a bite, talking about universal health care, he will not talk to the drug companies about it; he'll go meet with Iran and offer them a deal; we can't deal with real Americans; can't deal with the drug companies. But he doesn't even know what type of health care system Cuba has, when by reputation it's the best in the world, according to people on his side of the aisle.

"Also about Cuba, and John Edwards not understanding that the Cuban health care system is "government run." Look, let me get his exact quote here: "I'm going to be honest with you. I don't know a lot about Cuba's health care system," Edwards said at an event in Oskaloosa, Iowa. "Is it a government-run system?" I don't care whether he's trying to fake us out or not, it's the dumbest political statement in the world. The context is he had flip-flopped on whether he had seen Sicko. First he said, I think, he had seen it, then he said he hadn't. The reason, he says, "I don't know anything about Cuba's health care system, is it government run?" is because if he had seen Sicko there would be no doubt. But how can there be any doubt that he knows or doesn't know, because what isn't government run in Cuba?"