John Edwards' has a Howard Dean moment: He's rehashing a talking point from the Kerry/Edwards 2004 campaign:

TIPTON, Iowa - Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care.

"It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care," he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. "If you are going to be in the system, you can't choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK."

He noted, for example, that women would be required to have regular mammograms in an effort to find and treat "the first trace of problem." Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, announced earlier this year that her breast cancer had returned and spread.

Edwards said his mandatory health care plan would cover preventive, chronic and long-term health care. The plan would include mental health care as well as dental and vision coverage for all Americans.

Forcing people to go to the doctor is not the equivalent of a national healthcare plan. But thanks for the soft paternalism.

Giuliani, Clinton, Obama, Edwards, McCain, Romney. Maybe it's time to give one of these folks a look. How bad could 'President Yaphet Kotto' be, anyway?