Is Edwards Running for Surgeon General?

This is just plain silly. We have an earlier flu season, and some ultimately minor vaccine issues and so Edwards is going to save us from the flu? Please. Is this really the kidn of thing we expect the President to be doing?

Edwards Proposes Tracking System for Flu

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards says he would prevent a repeat of this year's flu crisis by improving government tracking of the disease and speeding production of vaccines.

This is especially silly, given that much of the hubub over the flu has been media generated.