Please, please, please tell me that the quote by Edwards is a spoof.
If a politician in a small pseudo-socialist country like Sweden say something as silly as that the world doesn't have to care, but the candidate for VP in the USA...
How dumb can you get? No wonder the Dow tanked yesterday. Just the remotest possibility that Kerry/Edwards would be allowed to run the country for the next 4 years - scary!
I heard him say it on the radio. Damn near fell out of my chair...