Do politicians -- even ex-politicians -- every really listen or understand the words that are coming out of their mouths. Yesterday on "Fox News Sunday," former Sen. Tom Daschle, the national co-chair of the Barack Obama campaign, had the following to say.

This is a man who understands when you go to an emergency room and you see people lined up in the hallways; there's something wrong.

And when it's free that's going to improve the situation?

Seriously!?!